Luke Schenn made the most hits by a defenseman in 2011-12, with 270 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	Luke Schenn L. Schenn	270	2011-12	TOR	79	2	20	22	-6	62	0	1	0	1	0	0	81	2.5	0	0		115	28	58	16:02
2	Brooks Orpik B. Orpik	259	2011-12	PIT	73	2	16	18	+19	61	0	0	0	1	0	0	44	4.5	0	0		139	13	25	22:33
3	Matt Greene M. Greene	241	2011-12	LAK	82	4	11	15	+4	58	0	0	0	1	2	0	76	5.3	0	0		112	10	44	16:40
4	Alexei Emelin A. Emelin	236	2011-12	MTL	67	3	4	7	-18	30	0	0	1	1	0	0	62	4.8	0	0		88	13	46	17:18
5	Mark Fistric M. Fistric	235	2011-12	DAL	60	0	2	2	-3	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	30	0.0	1	1	100.0	105	10	19	16:31
6	Jared Cowen J. Cowen	217	2011-12	OTT	82	5	12	17	-4	56	0	1	0	1	1	1	58	8.6	0	0		74	28	38	18:54
7	Dion Phaneuf D. Phaneuf	214	2011-12	TOR	82	12	32	44	-10	92	7	15	0	1	1	1	202	5.9	0	0		127	30	76	25:17
8	Dan Girardi D. Girardi	211	2011-12	NYR	82	5	24	29	+13	20	1	9	0	1	2	0	122	4.1	0	0		185	37	61	26:15
9	Brent Seabrook B. Seabrook	198	2011-12	CHI	78	9	25	34	+21	22	2	2	0	1	3	0	156	5.8	0	0		165	34	57	24:43
10	Mark Stuart M. Stuart	198	2011-12	WPG	80	3	11	14	-4	98	0	0	1	0	1	0	60	5.0	0	0		182	7	43	17:12
11	Eric Brewer E. Brewer	197	2011-12	TBL	82	1	20	21	-5	49	0	3	0	1	0	0	83	1.2	0	0		176	26	37	23:16
12	Stephane Robidas S. Robidas	191	2011-12	DAL	75	5	17	22	-5	48	2	7	0	0	1	0	75	6.7	0	0		110	23	25	22:46
13	Luca Sbisa L. Sbisa	186	2011-12	ANA	80	5	19	24	-5	66	0	3	0	0	0	0	88	5.7	0	0		99	22	37	17:56
14	Ladislav Smid L. Smid	186	2011-12	EDM	78	5	10	15	+4	44	0	0	0	1	0	0	47	10.6	0	0		184	31	47	20:54
15	Ryan O'Byrne R. O'Byrne	180	2011-12	COL	74	1	6	7	-5	57	0	0	0	0	0	0	42	2.4	0	0		141	13	24	18:51
16	Brad Stuart B. Stuart	177	2011-12	DET	81	6	15	21	+16	29	1	0	1	0	2	0	96	6.3	0	0		115	22	27	21:03
17	Anton Volchenkov A. Volchenkov	177	2011-12	NJD	72	2	9	11	+3	34	0	0	0	1	1	0	63	3.2	0	0		125	14	15	17:59
18	Shea Weber S. Weber	177	2011-12	NSH	78	19	30	49	+21	46	10	12	2	0	1	0	230	8.3	0	0		140	51	46	26:10
19	Deryk Engelland D. Engelland	174	2011-12	PIT	73	4	13	17	+10	56	0	0	0	0	1	0	86	4.7	0	0		77	9	18	16:09
20	Milan Jurcina M. Jurcina	173	2011-12	NYI	65	3	8	11	-34	30	2	1	0	0	0	0	127	2.4	0	0		116	26	25	18:47
21	Roman Polak R. Polak	173	2011-12	STL	77	0	11	11	+6	57	0	0	0	0	0	0	88	0.0	0	0		141	15	21	18:52
22	Robyn Regehr R. Regehr	172	2011-12	BUF	76	1	4	5	-12	56	0	0	0	0	0	0	49	2.0	0	0		112	11	28	18:38
23	Travis Hamonic T. Hamonic	170	2011-12	NYI	73	2	22	24	+6	73	1	5	0	0	0	0	124	1.6	0	0		157	37	52	22:26
24	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	166	2011-12	BOS	79	12	40	52	+33	86	8	10	0	1	0	0	224	5.4	0	1	0.0	87	28	68	25:00
25	Braydon Coburn B. Coburn	164	2011-12	PHI	81	4	20	24	+10	56	0	0	0	2	0	0	113	3.5	0	1	0.0	119	33	43	22:03