Ray Bourque has taken the most career shots by a defenseman, with 6,209 taken.

	NAME	S	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	6,209	1,612	410	1,169	1,579	+527	1,141	173	588	16	28	60	5	6.6	0	1	0.0	277	203	143	135	26:38
2	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	5,157	1,416	340	934	1,274	+371	1,511	166	556	10	23	44	3	6.6	2	2	100.0	152	266	129	247	26:38
3	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	4,389	1,409	396	1,135	1,531	+298	1,802	135	529	20	31	43	1	9.0	0	0		33	89	23	97	21:50
4	Rob Blake R. Blake	3,896	1,270	240	537	777	-4	1,679	136	243	4	15	41	2	6.2	5	14	35.7	1,229	1,382	452	653	24:54
5	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	3,875	1,564	264	878	1,142	+450	514	132	458	10	30	35	4	6.8	0	0		477	990	462	638	26:56
6	Phil Housley P. Housley	3,808	1,495	338	894	1,232	-53	822	129	483	7	3	49	5	8.9	1	2	50.0	93	147	85	196	20:52
7	Brent Burns B. Burns	3,710	1,324	234	608	842	+2	781	85	221	3	13	38	16	6.3	12	29	41.4	1,333	1,767	832	1,393	23:21
8	Brian Leetch B. Leetch	3,640	1,205	247	781	1,028	+25	571	111	431	8	14	38	7	6.8	0	1	0.0	410	653	306	420	26:28
9	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	3,627	1,651	185	763	948	+351	2,891	69	338	13	39	31	1	5.1	1	5	20.0	569	615	286	550	20:55
10	Larry Murphy L. Murphy	3,604	1,615	288	929	1,217	+197	1,084	114	433	9	18	36	4	8.0	2	2	100.0	66	152	40	129	20:40
11	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	3,419	1,680	209	471	680	+301	2,085	93	133	8	27	35	3	6.1	13	36	36.1	3,749	2,164	610	1,342	23:55
12	Doug Wilson D. Wilson	3,297	1,024	237	590	827	+55	830	85	295	9	7	22	2	7.2
13	Scott Stevens S. Stevens	3,238	1,635	196	712	908	+395	2,785	75	230	5	18	34	3	6.1	0	0		612	570	313	296	23:39
14	Mathieu Schneider M. Schneider	3,092	1,289	223	520	743	+66	1,245	100	293	4	4	36	4	7.2	1	8	12.5	1,003	975	319	475	22:44
15	Gary Suter G. Suter	3,091	1,145	203	641	844	+126	1,349	90	388	8	15	18	1	6.6	1	2	50.0	343	239	42	169	21:39
16	Bobby Orr B. Orr	3,058	657	270	645	915	+582	953	76	248	16	31	26		8.8
17	Denis Potvin D. Potvin	3,050	1,060	310	742	1,052	+456	1,356	127	332	10	22	44	0	10.2
18	Roman Hamrlik R. Hamrlik	2,988	1,395	155	483	638	-49	1,408	62	233	5	18	23	4	5.2	1	2	50.0	1,105	1,648	413	699	23:30
19	Erik Karlsson E. Karlsson	2,979	1,087	200	670	870	-126	488	44	261	2	5	38	12	6.7	0	4	0.0	780	1,430	853	1,289	25:13
20	Kris Letang K. Letang	2,951	1,164	175	597	772	+88	807	56	229	6	10	34	11	5.9	1	5	20.0	2,007	1,758	635	1,110	24:11
21	Kevin Hatcher K. Hatcher	2,947	1,157	227	450	677	-26	1,392	91	208	8	16	37	2	7.7	0	0		195	222	59	103	22:09
22	Reed Larson R. Larson	2,926	904	222	463	685	-128	1,388	88	185	8	9	17	0	7.6
23	Rob Ramage R. Ramage	2,883	1,044	139	425	564	-178	2,226	76	206	1	9	20	3	4.8
24	Sergei Gonchar S. Gonchar	2,866	1,301	220	591	811	+33	981	102	325	2	9	35	4	7.7	3	3	100.0	821	1,159	332	788	23:39
25	Roman Josi R. Josi	2,846	965	190	536	726	+60	401	65	197	1	9	35	9	6.7	0	2	0.0	680	1,822	361	662	24:52