Ryan Reaves made the most hits per game by a forward in 2021-22, with 4.04 per game.

Interpreted as:

forward hits per game with a minimum of 51.25 games played per 82 team games leaders 2021-22

	NAME	HIT/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	Ryan Reaves R. Reaves	4.04	2021-22	NYR	69	5	8	13	-13	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	44	11.4	5	10	50.0	279	16	11	21	10:39
2	Tanner Jeannot T. Jeannot	3.93	2021-22	NSH	81	24	17	41	+2	130	2	1	1	0	5	1	124	19.4	10	24	41.7	318	64	32	32	15:59
3	Cal Clutterbuck C. Clutterbuck	3.88	2021-22	NYI	59	6	9	15	-6	10	0	0	1	0	1	0	74	8.1	11	15	73.3	229	23	21	14	14:03
4	Brady Tkachuk B. Tkachuk	3.42	2021-22	OTT	79	30	37	67	-7	117	9	8	0	0	3	1	288	10.4	218	435	50.1	270	25	41	68	18:48
5	Zach Aston-Reese Z. Aston-Reese	3.35	2021-22	TOT	69	5	10	15	+9	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	78	6.4	4	8	50.0	231	42	19	10	13:02
6	Matt Martin M. Martin	3.31	2021-22	NYI	71	3	4	7	-2	70	0	0	0	0	0	0	66	4.5	8	19	42.1	235	26	11	17	11:26
7	Garnet Hathaway G. Hathaway	3.29	2021-22	WSH	76	14	12	26	+19	57	0	0	0	1	4	0	124	11.3	10	28	35.7	250	62	23	20	13:23
8	Nicolas Deslauriers N. Deslauriers	3.25	2021-22	TOT	81	8	5	13	-11	113	0	0	1	0	1	0	90	8.9	1	4	25.0	263	49	7	14	11:22
9	Marcus Foligno M. Foligno	3.22	2021-22	MIN	74	23	19	42	+25	112	5	2	0	0	3	1	98	23.5	12	20	60.0	238	42	28	27	16:24
10	Keegan Kolesar K. Kolesar	3.19	2021-22	VGK	77	7	17	24	-6	68	1	0	1	0	0	0	94	7.4	76	188	40.4	246	46	33	36	12:39
11	Austin Watson A. Watson	3.18	2021-22	OTT	67	10	6	16	-3	91	0	0	1	0	1	0	88	11.4	7	20	35.0	213	63	15	15	11:59
12	Sean Kuraly S. Kuraly	3.12	2021-22	CBJ	77	14	16	30	+2	61	0	1	0	1	0	0	121	11.6	628	1,270	49.4	240	51	35	26	15:52
13	Tom Wilson T. Wilson	3.08	2021-22	WSH	78	24	28	52	+13	98	4	6	2	1	5	1	151	15.9	22	52	42.3	240	55	36	44	18:35
14	Adam Lowry A. Lowry	2.92	2021-22	WPG	79	13	8	21	+1	59	0	2	3	2	0	0	115	11.3	564	1,064	53.0	231	43	39	23	15:29
15	Nathan Bastian N. Bastian	2.92	2021-22	TOT	72	12	6	18	-12	65	3	1	0	0	1	0	97	12.4	23	48	47.9	210	40	13	15	11:54
16	Lawson Crouse L. Crouse	2.78	2021-22	ARI	65	20	14	34	-9	52	3	4	1	0	4	0	131	15.3	16	48	33.3	181	36	29	23	17:26
17	Luke Kunin L. Kunin	2.72	2021-22	NSH	82	13	9	22	-11	99	0	2	0	0	0	0	125	10.4	48	109	44.0	223	51	20	17	13:50
18	Jordan Staal J. Staal	2.72	2021-22	CAR	78	17	19	36	+11	18	1	1	0	0	2	0	146	11.6	736	1,285	57.3	212	29	34	51	16:38
19	Nick Ritchie N. Ritchie	2.68	2021-22	TOT	57	12	11	23	-13	43	1	3	0	0	0	0	93	12.9	0	4	0.0	153	22	9	17	12:42
20	Curtis Lazar C. Lazar	2.66	2021-22	BOS	70	8	8	16	-2	16	0	0	0	1	0	0	95	8.4	136	278	48.9	186	51	17	11	12:00
21	Zack Kassian Z. Kassian	2.66	2021-22	EDM	58	6	13	19	+2	63	2	0	0	0	1	0	58	10.3	3	7	42.9	154	6	13	22	11:47
22	Nick Foligno N. Foligno	2.56	2021-22	BOS	64	2	11	13	-13	61	0	1	0	0	0	0	99	2.0	22	39	56.4	164	31	22	14	12:28
23	Milan Lucic M. Lucic	2.55	2021-22	CGY	82	10	11	21	-9	84	2	1	0	0	0	0	95	10.5	19	34	55.9	209	22	20	41	12:15
24	William Carrier W. Carrier	2.52	2021-22	VGK	63	9	11	20	+7	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	120	7.5	4	8	50.0	159	24	24	12	11:37
25	Brandon Duhaime B. Duhaime	2.51	2021-22	MIN	80	6	11	17	-2	122	0	0	0	0	1	0	91	6.6	8	28	28.6	201	18	16	13	10:13