Nathan MacKinnon took the most shots per game in 2020-21, with 4.29 taken.

Interpreted as:

NHL most attempts per game with a minimum of 51.25 games played per 82 team games by a player NHL 2021

	NAME	S/GP	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Nathan MacKinnon N. MacKinnon	4.29	2020-21	COL	48	20	45	65	+22	37	8	17	0	0	2	0	206	9.7	239	493	48.5	38	15	16	29	20:22
2	Auston Matthews A. Matthews	4.27	2020-21	TOR	52	41	25	66	+21	10	10	3	0	0	12	2	222	18.5	450	867	51.9	57	47	47	53	21:33
3	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	4.04	2020-21	WSH	45	24	18	42	-7	12	9	8	0	0	6	1	182	13.2	0	2	0.0	98	23	11	20	19:30
4	Brady Tkachuk B. Tkachuk	3.93	2020-21	OTT	56	17	19	36	-17	69	5	5	0	0	3	1	220	7.7	118	249	47.4	248	23	33	37	18:14
5	David Pastrnak D. Pastrnak	3.67	2020-21	BOS	48	20	28	48	+10	24	6	8	0	0	3	0	176	11.4	2	7	28.6	35	13	25	31	18:37
6	Max Pacioretty M. Pacioretty	3.63	2020-21	VGK	48	24	27	51	+20	14	6	6	0	0	6	4	174	13.8	20	43	46.5	33	29	15	17	17:56
7	Connor McDavid C. McDavid	3.57	2020-21	EDM	56	33	72	105	+21	20	9	28	0	0	11	2	200	16.5	316	638	49.5	61	24	36	47	22:09
8	Aleksander Barkov A. Barkov	3.52	2020-21	FLA	50	26	32	58	+12	14	7	12	1	0	6	2	176	14.8	563	1,026	54.9	31	37	39	23	20:56
9	Evander Kane E. Kane	3.46	2020-21	SJS	56	22	27	49	-1	42	3	4	2	2	2	1	194	11.3	23	57	40.4	97	22	30	33	20:12
10	Patrick Kane P. Kane	3.41	2020-21	CHI	56	15	51	66	-7	14	3	19	0	0	3	0	191	7.9	2	7	28.6	13	15	33	45	22:14
11	Mikko Rantanen M. Rantanen	3.40	2020-21	COL	52	30	36	66	+30	34	9	15	0	0	7	0	177	16.9	32	64	50.0	26	20	32	16	19:55
12	Patrice Bergeron P. Bergeron	3.37	2020-21	BOS	54	23	25	48	+27	16	7	6	3	1	3	1	182	12.6	714	1,147	62.2	49	36	35	14	18:13
13	Filip Forsberg F. Forsberg	3.31	2020-21	NSH	39	12	20	32	-9	16	3	10	0	0	3	1	129	9.3	3	8	37.5	47	14	22	21	18:17
14	Patric Hornqvist P. Hornqvist	3.30	2020-21	FLA	44	14	18	32	-3	39	8	4	0	0	2	0	145	9.7	2	14	14.3	80	23	18	10	16:47
15	Dougie Hamilton D. Hamilton	3.27	2020-21	CAR	55	10	32	42	+20	35	2	16	1	0	2	1	180	5.6	0	0		52	64	19	44	22:43
16	Kevin Fiala K. Fiala	3.24	2020-21	MIN	50	20	20	40	-2	43	6	8	0	0	5	1	162	12.3	5	15	33.3	27	13	41	45	16:54
17	Jonathan Marchessault J. Marchessault	3.20	2020-21	VGK	55	18	26	44	+19	39	3	3	0	0	4	2	176	10.2	41	88	46.6	44	14	29	22	17:25
18	Nikolaj Ehlers N. Ehlers	3.15	2020-21	WPG	47	21	25	46	+15	15	6	7	0	0	5	2	148	14.2	1	1	100.0	26	12	18	19	16:55
19	Jakob Chychrun J. Chychrun	3.14	2020-21	ARI	56	18	23	41	-6	42	5	9	0	0	3	1	176	10.2	0	0		59	89	20	36	23:23
20	Alex Pietrangelo A. Pietrangelo	3.07	2020-21	VGK	41	7	16	23	+20	16	0	4	0	1	2	1	126	5.6	0	0		28	80	23	22	24:26
21	Mika Zibanejad M. Zibanejad	3.05	2020-21	NYR	56	24	26	50	+2	18	10	4	2	2	7	1	171	14.0	479	1,034	46.3	75	44	39	45	20:06
22	Dylan Larkin D. Larkin	3.05	2020-21	DET	44	9	14	23	-14	34	1	5	0	0	0	0	134	6.7	361	730	49.5	38	17	21	38	20:24
23	Tyler Toffoli T. Toffoli	3.04	2020-21	MTL	52	28	16	44	0	24	7	3	2	1	5	0	158	17.7	21	54	38.9	75	12	25	31	17:31
24	Shea Theodore S. Theodore	3.04	2020-21	VGK	53	8	34	42	+28	14	0	15	0	0	0	0	161	5.0	0	0		22	43	25	35	22:33
25	Nazem Kadri N. Kadri	3.04	2020-21	COL	56	11	21	32	-7	34	3	6	0	0	3	0	170	6.5	392	743	52.8	36	19	22	26	16:28