Rasmus Ristolainen made the most hits by a defenseman in 2019-20, with 203 hits.

	NAME	HIT	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Rasmus Ristolainen R. Ristolainen	203	2019-20	BUF	69	6	27	33	-2	46	2	7	0	1	0	0	128	4.7	0	0	82	17	24	22:49
2	Brayden McNabb B. McNabb	201	2019-20	VGK	71	2	7	9	+1	40	0	0	1	0	0	0	73	2.7	0	0	133	32	32	20:01
3	Mark Borowiecki M. Borowiecki	199	2019-20	OTT	53	7	11	18	+1	58	0	0	1	0	0	0	63	11.1	0	0	120	10	30	17:56
4	Brenden Dillon B. Dillon	194	2019-20	TOT	69	1	13	14	-2	104	0	0	0	1	0	0	58	1.7	0	0	74	16	26	19:27
5	Jack Johnson J. Johnson	183	2019-20	PIT	67	3	8	11	-1	26	0	0	1	0	0	0	63	4.8	0	0	97	15	23	19:28
6	Jeff Petry J. Petry	177	2019-20	MTL	71	11	29	40	-10	26	3	9	1	0	3	2	158	7.0	0	0	79	30	88	23:39
7	Nikita Zadorov N. Zadorov	175	2019-20	COL	64	4	9	13	+6	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	65	6.2	0	0	66	23	35	17:46
8	Jacob Trouba J. Trouba	173	2019-20	NYR	70	7	20	27	-12	61	4	4	0	2	1	0	168	4.2	0	0	128	43	69	22:34
9	Erik Cernak E. Cernak	172	2019-20	TBL	67	5	7	12	+11	59	0	0	0	0	1	0	125	4.0	0	0	97	18	28	18:57
10	Darnell Nurse D. Nurse	172	2019-20	EDM	71	5	28	33	-3	48	0	5	0	0	1	0	170	2.9	0	0	141	26	54	23:28
11	Neal Pionk N. Pionk	165	2019-20	WPG	71	6	39	45	+10	32	3	22	0	0	1	0	177	3.4	0	0	78	31	62	23:23
12	Radko Gudas R. Gudas	164	2019-20	WSH	63	2	13	15	+15	40	0	0	0	0	1	0	90	2.2	0	0	75	23	34	16:44
13	Jamie Oleksiak J. Oleksiak	153	2019-20	DAL	69	3	7	10	-6	41	0	0	0	0	1	0	76	3.9	0	0	59	24	46	15:49
14	Ben Chiarot B. Chiarot	152	2019-20	MTL	69	9	12	21	+5	61	0	0	0	0	3	2	130	6.9	0	0	128	18	86	23:08
15	Ilya Lyubushkin I. Lyubushkin	151	2019-20	ARI	51	0	4	4	+4	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	41	0.0	0	0	53	13	20	14:11
16	Anthony Bitetto A. Bitetto	145	2019-20	WPG	51	0	8	8	+3	32	0	0	0	1	0	0	54	0.0	0	0	50	16	22	15:10
17	Robert Hagg R. Hagg	136	2019-20	PHI	49	3	10	13	+14	30	1	0	0	0	0	0	38	7.9	0	0	79	6	31	15:36
18	Johnny Boychuk J. Boychuk	135	2019-20	NYI	64	2	9	11	-11	14	1	0	0	0	0	0	96	2.1	0	0	128	6	50	17:17
19	Matt Roy M. Roy	132	2019-20	LAK	70	4	14	18	+16	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	112	3.6	0	0	100	7	43	18:07
20	Charlie McAvoy C. McAvoy	131	2019-20	BOS	67	5	27	32	+24	41	1	1	0	1	1	1	101	5.0	0	0	131	37	68	23:10
21	Oliver Ekman-Larsson O. Ekman-Larsson	129	2019-20	ARI	66	9	21	30	-3	38	2	5	1	0	1	0	135	6.7	0	0	65	19	45	23:01
22	Nick Holden N. Holden	129	2019-20	VGK	61	6	8	14	-1	13	1	0	0	1	0	0	101	5.9	0	0	74	26	35	18:51
23	David Savard D. Savard	129	2019-20	CBJ	68	0	11	11	-3	35	0	2	0	0	0	0	97	0.0	0	0	163	18	43	20:41
24	Connor Murphy C. Murphy	128	2019-20	CHI	58	5	14	19	+2	27	0	0	0	1	0	0	117	4.3	0	0	138	17	44	21:15
25	Brandon Carlo B. Carlo	126	2019-20	BOS	67	4	15	19	+16	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	111	3.6	0	0	76	31	32	20:29