Roman Josi took the most shots by a defenseman in 2021-22, with 281 taken.

	NAME	S	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Roman Josi R. Josi	281	2021-22	NSH	80	23	73	96	+13	46	11	26	0	0	2	0	8.2	0	0		66	133	48	71	25:33
2	Cale Makar C. Makar	240	2021-22	COL	77	28	58	86	+48	26	9	25	0	0	6	3	11.7	0	0		95	110	49	40	25:40
3	Alex Pietrangelo A. Pietrangelo	227	2021-22	VGK	80	13	31	44	+7	42	3	10	1	3	0	0	5.7	0	0		66	164	93	56	24:39
4	Morgan Rielly M. Rielly	221	2021-22	TOR	82	10	58	68	+16	40	2	21	0	3	3	0	4.5	0	0		92	87	40	76	23:44
5	Victor Hedman V. Hedman	219	2021-22	TBL	82	20	65	85	+26	36	6	32	0	0	6	1	9.1	0	0		93	129	52	56	25:05
6	Zach Werenski Z. Werenski	216	2021-22	CBJ	68	11	37	48	-15	22	4	10	0	1	2	0	5.1	0	0		33	95	39	39	25:40
7	Kris Letang K. Letang	214	2021-22	PIT	78	10	58	68	+20	49	2	20	0	0	3	2	4.7	0	0		171	122	59	79	25:47
8	Shea Theodore S. Theodore	205	2021-22	VGK	78	14	38	52	+6	24	1	11	0	0	5	3	6.8	0	0		37	97	60	58	23:08
9	Evan Bouchard E. Bouchard	205	2021-22	EDM	81	12	31	43	+10	28	2	5	0	1	1	0	5.9	0	0		80	112	37	79	19:48
10	Jacob Trouba J. Trouba	204	2021-22	NYR	81	11	28	39	+25	88	1	3	0	2	1	0	5.4	0	0		207	177	24	63	22:26
11	Brent Burns B. Burns	203	2021-22	SJS	82	10	44	54	-15	42	4	14	0	1	0	0	4.9	0	1	0.0	55	150	68	97	26:09
12	Darnell Nurse D. Nurse	203	2021-22	EDM	71	9	26	35	+18	54	0	6	2	1	0	0	4.4	0	0		196	132	33	67	25:03
13	MacKenzie Weegar M. Weegar	203	2021-22	FLA	80	8	36	44	+40	81	1	2	1	1	2	0	3.9	0	0		179	156	74	85	23:22
14	Dougie Hamilton D. Hamilton	197	2021-22	NJD	62	9	21	30	-19	34	2	6	0	0	1	1	4.6	0	0		87	92	20	54	21:13
15	John Carlson J. Carlson	195	2021-22	WSH	78	17	54	71	+13	20	7	18	0	3	2	0	8.7	0	0		73	112	42	55	23:49
16	Seth Jones S. Jones	194	2021-22	CHI	78	5	46	51	-37	28	0	19	0	1	0	0	2.6	0	0		99	155	34	71	26:13
17	Noah Dobson N. Dobson	190	2021-22	NYI	80	13	38	51	-3	18	3	19	0	0	4	1	6.8	0	0		78	154	27	82	21:28
18	Noah Hanifin N. Hanifin	189	2021-22	CGY	81	10	38	48	+27	19	1	12	0	1	1	0	5.3	0	0		63	84	38	62	21:18
19	Moritz Seider M. Seider	187	2021-22	DET	82	7	43	50	-9	34	2	19	0	2	4	2	3.7	0	0		151	161	41	48	23:02
20	Brady Skjei B. Skjei	184	2021-22	CAR	82	9	30	39	+22	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	4.9	0	0		95	73	51	62	21:09
21	Aaron Ekblad A. Ekblad	180	2021-22	FLA	61	15	42	57	+38	26	3	17	0	3	2	2	8.3	0	0		62	69	43	73	24:55
22	Thomas Chabot T. Chabot	173	2021-22	OTT	59	7	31	38	-3	26	1	12	0	0	1	0	4.0	0	0		73	93	29	68	26:12
23	Josh Morrissey J. Morrissey	173	2021-22	WPG	79	12	25	37	-3	66	6	9	0	0	3	0	6.9	0	0		150	104	26	63	23:40
24	Ivan Provorov I. Provorov	170	2021-22	PHI	79	9	22	31	-20	34	1	6	0	2	1	1	5.3	0	0		74	172	17	84	24:53
25	Rasmus Dahlin R. Dahlin	170	2021-22	BUF	80	13	40	53	-22	68	3	18	0	1	3	1	7.6	0	0		121	91	27	51	24:01