Stephane Robidas made the most hits by a defenseman in 2009-10, with 269 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	Stephane Robidas S. Robidas	269	2009-10	DAL	82	10	31	41	-10	70	7	12	0	0	1	0	199	5.0	0	0		177	22	34	24:29
2	Brooks Orpik B. Orpik	255	2009-10	PIT	73	2	23	25	+6	64	0	1	0	1	0	0	61	3.3	0	0		117	11	32	20:06
3	Matt Greene M. Greene	238	2009-10	LAK	75	2	7	9	+4	83	0	0	0	0	1	0	57	3.5	0	0		126	4	34	17:29
4	Douglas Murray D. Murray	233	2009-10	SJS	79	4	13	17	+3	66	1	0	0	0	1	0	85	4.7	0	0		99	24	42	20:20
5	Andrew Alberts A. Alberts	222	2009-10	TOT	76	3	9	12	+6	87	0	0	0	0	0	0	50	6.0	0	1	0.0	89	20	40	15:23
6	Dustin Byfuglien D. Byfuglien	215	2009-10	CHI	82	17	17	34	-7	94	6	5	0	0	3	1	211	8.1	1	2	50.0	38	48	27	16:25
7	Brent Seabrook B. Seabrook	208	2009-10	CHI	78	4	26	30	+20	59	0	6	0	2	2	2	129	3.1	0	0		153	24	43	23:13
8	Brad Stuart B. Stuart	206	2009-10	DET	82	4	16	20	-12	22	1	2	0	0	2	1	153	2.6	1	2	50.0	133	30	57	23:10
9	Andy Sutton A. Sutton	197	2009-10	TOT	72	5	8	13	-10	107	0	0	0	0	0	0	77	6.5	0	0		204	24	64	20:25
10	Zach Bogosian Z. Bogosian	196	2009-10	ATL	81	10	13	23	-18	61	3	3	1	1	0	0	155	6.5	0	0		124	41	52	21:25
11	Dion Phaneuf D. Phaneuf	194	2009-10	TOT	81	12	20	32	+1	83	5	11	0	0	3	2	225	5.3	0	0		100	27	58	24:14
12	Greg Zanon G. Zanon	183	2009-10	MIN	81	2	13	15	-10	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	59	3.4	0	1	0.0	196	25	39	22:22
13	Dan Girardi D. Girardi	178	2009-10	NYR	82	6	18	24	-2	53	1	3	1	0	1	0	108	5.6	0	0		180	37	47	21:29
14	Freddy Meyer F. Meyer	178	2009-10	NYI	64	4	11	15	-2	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	56	7.1	0	0		87	42	24	16:46
15	Marc Staal M. Staal	178	2009-10	NYR	82	8	19	27	+11	44	0	0	0	0	2	0	78	10.3	0	0		97	45	43	23:08
16	Aaron Ward A. Ward	177	2009-10	TOT	77	1	12	13	-15	62	0	0	0	2	0	0	41	2.4	0	0		146	12	24	17:18
17	Niclas Wallin N. Wallin	175	2009-10	TOT	70	0	7	7	-5	49	0	1	0	0	0	0	72	0.0	0	1	0.0	88	21	28	17:20
18	Luke Schenn L. Schenn	173	2009-10	TOR	79	5	12	17	+2	50	0	0	0	0	1	0	101	5.0	0	0		116	22	41	16:53
19	Mark Fistric M. Fistric	171	2009-10	DAL	67	1	9	10	+27	69	0	0	0	1	0	0	46	2.2	0	0		79	9	21	14:56
20	Dennis Seidenberg D. Seidenberg	166	2009-10	TOT	79	4	28	32	+6	39	2	7	0	1	1	0	153	2.6	0	1	0.0	215	24	25	22:55
21	Shea Weber S. Weber	165	2009-10	NSH	78	16	27	43	0	36	7	13	0	0	3	1	222	7.2	0	0		106	34	52	23:10
22	Shaone Morrisonn S. Morrisonn	163	2009-10	WSH	68	1	11	12	+8	68	0	0	0	0	1	0	32	3.1	0	0		104	12	30	17:34
23	Francis Bouillon F. Bouillon	162	2009-10	NSH	81	3	8	11	+5	50	1	3	0	1	1	1	86	3.5	0	0		96	25	43	19:18
24	Michael Del Zotto M. Del Zotto	162	2009-10	NYR	80	9	28	37	-20	32	4	18	0	0	1	0	81	11.1	0	0		92	24	43	18:58
25	Jim Vandermeer J. Vandermeer	158	2009-10	PHX	62	4	8	12	+3	60	0	0	0	0	1	0	64	6.3	0	0		56	14	21	17:41