Kris Russell had the most blocked shots in 2016-17, with 213 blocks.

Interpreted as:

most blocked shots by a player in NHL 2016-17

	NAME	BKS	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Kris Russell K. Russell	213	2016-17	EDM	68	1	12	13	+5	23	0	1	0	0	1	0	68	1.5	0	0		67	36	60	21:13
2	Erik Karlsson E. Karlsson	201	2016-17	OTT	77	17	54	71	+10	28	4	23	0	2	5	1	218	7.8	0	0		67	59	106	26:50
3	Ian Cole I. Cole	194	2016-17	PIT	81	5	21	26	+26	72	0	1	0	0	1	0	89	5.6	0	0		164	32	50	19:49
4	Calvin de Haan C. de Haan	190	2016-17	NYI	82	5	20	25	+15	36	1	1	0	0	1	0	116	4.3	0	0		139	24	53	19:51
5	Mark Giordano M. Giordano	184	2016-17	CGY	81	12	27	39	+22	59	3	11	2	1	4	1	151	7.9	0	0		78	45	43	23:35
6	Niklas Hjalmarsson N. Hjalmarsson	181	2016-17	CHI	73	5	13	18	+12	20	0	0	0	1	0	0	61	8.2	0	0		23	23	70	21:30
7	Danny DeKeyser D. DeKeyser	170	2016-17	DET	82	4	8	12	-22	33	0	0	0	0	2	1	85	4.7	0	0		100	16	45	21:57
8	Alec Martinez A. Martinez	167	2016-17	LAK	82	9	30	39	-17	24	2	13	1	0	3	2	144	6.3	0	1	0.0	137	5	51	21:38
9	Dan Girardi D. Girardi	166	2016-17	NYR	63	4	11	15	+8	16	0	0	1	1	3	0	56	7.1	0	0		107	10	46	19:06
10	Ivan Provorov I. Provorov	166	2016-17	PHI	82	6	24	30	-7	34	0	5	0	0	1	0	161	3.7	0	0		111	23	81	21:59
11	Andrej Sekera A. Sekera	166	2016-17	EDM	80	8	27	35	+14	18	1	10	1	0	1	0	128	6.3	0	0		55	38	95	21:29
12	Karl Alzner K. Alzner	162	2016-17	WSH	82	3	10	13	+23	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	81	3.7	0	0		105	17	52	19:47
13	Justin Braun J. Braun	161	2016-17	SJS	81	4	9	13	+1	28	0	0	0	2	0	0	95	4.2	0	0		136	40	59	20:05
14	Rasmus Ristolainen R. Ristolainen	161	2016-17	BUF	79	6	39	45	-9	58	1	24	0	1	2	2	186	3.2	0	0		195	25	59	26:28
15	Jaccob Slavin J. Slavin	161	2016-17	CAR	82	5	29	34	+23	12	0	4	1	3	0	0	99	5.1	0	0		35	83	54	23:26
16	Adam Larsson A. Larsson	160	2016-17	EDM	79	4	15	19	+21	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	85	4.7	0	0		253	28	71	20:09
17	Ryan McDonagh R. McDonagh	160	2016-17	NYR	77	6	36	42	+20	37	1	14	1	0	1	0	153	3.9	0	0		80	45	60	24:21
18	Cody Ceci C. Ceci	159	2016-17	OTT	79	2	15	17	-11	20	0	1	0	3	0	0	143	1.4	1	1	100.0	111	22	74	23:12
19	Derek Forbort D. Forbort	159	2016-17	LAK	82	2	16	18	+8	54	0	0	0	1	0	0	100	2.0	1	1	100.0	180	9	73	20:07
20	Alex Pietrangelo A. Pietrangelo	158	2016-17	STL	80	14	34	48	+3	24	6	13	0	0	4	0	181	7.7	0	1	0.0	38	53	27	25:17
21	Shea Weber S. Weber	157	2016-17	MTL	78	17	25	42	+20	38	12	10	0	2	4	0	183	9.3	0	0		140	11	80	25:04
22	Francois Beauchemin F. Beauchemin	156	2016-17	COL	81	5	13	18	-14	32	0	3	0	0	1	0	132	3.8	0	0		73	28	47	21:31
23	Dion Phaneuf D. Phaneuf	156	2016-17	OTT	81	9	21	30	-6	100	4	12	1	0	2	0	156	5.8	0	0		132	16	54	23:02
24	Andrew MacDonald A. MacDonald	151	2016-17	PHI	73	2	16	18	-5	26	0	0	0	1	0	0	65	3.1	0	0		39	8	50	20:06
25	Ben Lovejoy B. Lovejoy	150	2016-17	NJD	82	1	6	7	-7	39	0	0	0	0	1	0	84	1.2	0	0		82	18	40	20:46