Mark Borowiecki made the most hits by a defenseman in 2016-17, with 364 hits.

	NAME	HIT	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Mark Borowiecki M. Borowiecki	364	2016-17	OTT	70	1	2	3	-3	154	0	0	0	0	0	0	50	2.0	1	1	100.0	90	6	18	14:01
2	Luke Schenn L. Schenn	286	2016-17	ARI	78	1	7	8	-9	85	0	0	0	0	0	0	94	1.1	0	0		134	11	31	18:03
3	Radko Gudas R. Gudas	280	2016-17	PHI	67	6	17	23	+8	93	0	1	0	0	0	0	113	5.3	0	0		124	18	40	19:18
4	Adam Larsson A. Larsson	253	2016-17	EDM	79	4	15	19	+21	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	85	4.7	0	0		160	28	71	20:09
5	Alexei Emelin A. Emelin	241	2016-17	MTL	76	2	8	10	+1	71	0	0	0	0	0	0	82	2.4	0	0		127	16	84	21:19
6	Roman Polak R. Polak	232	2016-17	TOR	75	4	7	11	+10	65	0	0	0	0	1	0	64	6.3	0	1	0.0	133	16	49	17:55
7	Josh Manson J. Manson	227	2016-17	ANA	82	5	12	17	+14	82	0	0	1	1	1	0	88	5.7	0	0		79	23	57	18:38
8	Connor Murphy C. Murphy	201	2016-17	ARI	77	2	15	17	-13	45	0	0	1	0	1	1	81	2.5	0	0		119	13	31	19:11
9	Rasmus Ristolainen R. Ristolainen	195	2016-17	BUF	79	6	39	45	-9	58	1	24	0	1	2	2	186	3.2	0	0		161	25	59	26:28
10	Dustin Byfuglien D. Byfuglien	183	2016-17	WPG	80	13	39	52	+10	117	1	13	0	2	1	0	241	5.4	0	0		124	65	85	27:27
11	Brooks Orpik B. Orpik	181	2016-17	WSH	79	0	14	14	+32	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	93	0.0	0	0		132	12	36	17:47
12	Derek Forbort D. Forbort	180	2016-17	LAK	82	2	16	18	+8	54	0	0	0	1	0	0	100	2.0	1	1	100.0	159	9	73	20:07
13	Nikita Zaitsev N. Zaitsev	176	2016-17	TOR	82	4	32	36	-22	38	1	11	0	1	0	0	106	3.8	0	0		136	33	58	22:01
14	Brenden Dillon B. Dillon	174	2016-17	SJS	81	2	8	10	-2	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	86	2.3	0	0		81	11	34	16:28
15	Kevin Bieksa K. Bieksa	173	2016-17	ANA	81	3	11	14	0	63	1	2	0	0	1	0	94	3.2	0	0		100	13	54	18:45
16	Michael Del Zotto M. Del Zotto	173	2016-17	PHI	51	6	12	18	-5	28	0	1	0	1	0	0	92	6.5	0	1	0.0	85	9	30	19:30
17	Jeff Petry J. Petry	171	2016-17	MTL	80	8	20	28	+3	22	2	5	0	0	1	0	172	4.7	0	0		145	19	102	22:07
18	Ian Cole I. Cole	164	2016-17	PIT	81	5	21	26	+26	72	0	1	0	0	1	0	89	5.6	0	0		194	32	50	19:49
19	Nick Holden N. Holden	164	2016-17	NYR	80	11	23	34	+13	35	3	1	0	1	2	1	84	13.1	0	1	0.0	88	23	61	20:37
20	Marc Methot M. Methot	164	2016-17	OTT	68	0	12	12	+13	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	69	0.0	0	0		77	11	38	19:49
21	Jake Muzzin J. Muzzin	162	2016-17	LAK	82	9	19	28	-21	46	4	6	0	0	1	0	184	4.9	0	0		122	15	70	22:18
22	Johnny Boychuk J. Boychuk	160	2016-17	NYI	66	6	17	23	+11	19	1	3	1	1	2	0	155	3.9	1	1	100.0	133	13	45	20:44
23	Stephen Johns S. Johns	159	2016-17	DAL	61	4	6	10	-10	36	0	1	0	0	1	0	91	4.4	0	0		130	20	45	18:15
24	Adam McQuaid A. McQuaid	157	2016-17	BOS	77	2	8	10	+4	71	0	0	0	1	1	0	64	3.1	0	0		144	10	24	18:15
25	Dennis Seidenberg D. Seidenberg	154	2016-17	NYI	73	5	17	22	+25	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	89	5.6	0	0		146	10	33	19:26