Tom Wilson had the most penalty minutes in 2020-21, with 96 minutes in the box.

Interpreted as:

NHL most penalty minutes by a player 2021

	NAME	PIM	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Tom Wilson T. Wilson	96	2020-21	WSH	47	13	20	33	+1	4	4	1	0	4	0	83	15.7	11	26	42.3	105	25	20	16	16:32
2	Max Domi M. Domi	75	2020-21	CBJ	54	9	15	24	-18	2	1	0	0	2	1	99	9.1	192	396	48.5	15	10	18	41	15:13
3	Brendan Smith B. Smith	73	2020-21	NYR	48	5	5	10	+3	0	0	0	0	0	0	58	8.6	0	0		84	41	7	26	16:26
4	Brendan Lemieux B. Lemieux	73	2020-21	TOT	49	4	7	11	-2	0	0	0	0	1	0	50	8.0	6	26	23.1	109	26	8	13	10:08
5	Mathieu Olivier M. Olivier	70	2020-21	NSH	30	3	2	5	-1	1	0	0	0	0	0	25	12.0	4	8	50.0	62	19	1	3	10:55
6	Brady Tkachuk B. Tkachuk	69	2020-21	OTT	56	17	19	36	-17	5	5	0	0	3	1	220	7.7	118	249	47.4	248	23	33	37	18:14
7	Ryan Lomberg R. Lomberg	67	2020-21	FLA	34	2	2	4	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	47	4.3	0	1	0.0	90	10	8	2	9:43
8	Garnet Hathaway G. Hathaway	66	2020-21	WSH	56	6	12	18	+7	0	0	0	1	0	0	62	9.7	10	24	41.7	179	30	10	10	12:19
9	Trent Frederic T. Frederic	65	2020-21	BOS	42	4	1	5	-8	0	0	0	0	3	0	44	9.1	37	70	52.9	61	15	9	7	11:15
10	Pat Maroon P. Maroon	60	2020-21	TBL	55	4	14	18	+2	2	2	0	0	0	0	46	8.7	2	12	16.7	75	6	6	12	11:36
11	Erik Gudbranson E. Gudbranson	59	2020-21	TOT	45	1	3	4	-12	0	0	0	0	1	0	58	1.7	0	0		111	64	6	33	17:55
12	Alexander Edler A. Edler	58	2020-21	VAN	52	0	8	8	-8	0	0	0	0	0	0	99	0.0	0	0		80	118	13	26	20:54
13	Darnell Nurse D. Nurse	57	2020-21	EDM	56	16	20	36	+27	1	6	0	0	2	1	154	10.4	0	0		117	100	24	61	25:38
14	Kurtis Gabriel K. Gabriel	55	2020-21	SJS	11	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	0	0		46	10	1	0	7:40
15	Ryan Graves R. Graves	55	2020-21	COL	54	2	13	15	+15	0	0	0	0	0	0	101	2.0	0	0		77	91	18	24	19:03
16	Matthew Tkachuk M. Tkachuk	55	2020-21	CGY	56	16	27	43	+6	4	11	0	0	0	0	151	10.6	3	7	42.9	132	9	21	61	18:09
17	Kevin Rooney K. Rooney	54	2020-21	NYR	54	8	6	14	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	62	12.9	197	438	45.0	110	35	11	13	12:21
18	Nicolas Deslauriers N. Deslauriers	53	2020-21	ANA	49	5	5	10	-7	0	0	0	0	2	0	65	7.7	1	4	25.0	136	20	4	5	11:19
19	Sam Bennett S. Bennett	52	2020-21	TOT	48	10	17	27	-2	1	2	0	0	4	1	106	9.4	124	261	47.5	108	18	16	27	14:25
20	Barclay Goodrow B. Goodrow	52	2020-21	TBL	55	6	14	20	+16	0	0	0	0	1	0	72	8.3	162	324	50.0	111	27	16	12	15:07
21	Tyler Myers T. Myers	51	2020-21	VAN	55	6	15	21	-8	0	3	1	1	3	0	109	5.5	0	0		61	74	22	46	22:05
22	Luke Schenn L. Schenn	51	2020-21	TBL	38	2	2	4	+2	0	0	0	0	0	0	43	4.7	0	0		99	17	6	10	10:45
23	Carson Soucy C. Soucy	51	2020-21	MIN	50	1	16	17	+22	0	0	0	0	1	0	47	2.1	0	0		62	49	12	18	15:17
24	Ben Chiarot B. Chiarot	50	2020-21	MTL	41	1	6	7	-16	1	0	0	0	0	0	81	1.2	0	0		77	60	9	51	21:47
25	Blake Wheeler B. Wheeler	50	2020-21	WPG	50	15	31	46	-17	4	11	0	0	2	0	113	13.3	3	8	37.5	63	30	25	16	18:20