nhl player with most takeaways per game playoffs all-time

Linden Vey has the most career takeaways per game in the playoffs, with 2.00 taken.

	NAME	TKA/GP	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Linden Vey L. Vey	2.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	1	6	16.7	1	0	2	1	9:59
2	Ziggy Palffy Z. Palffy	1.58	24	9	10	19	+4	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	68	13.2	1	1	100.0	43	9	38	22	22:15
3	T.J. Hensick	1.50	2	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	8	16	50.0	1	0	3	2	15:29
4	Ivan Ciernik I. Ciernik	1.50	2	0	1	1	+1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	0	0		0	0	3	4	9:09
5	Pavel Brendl P. Brendl	1.50	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	0	0		3	0	3	1	11:28
6	Pavel Bure P. Bure	1.50	4	1	3	4	-3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	15	6.7	0	0		9	2	6	3	23:58
7	Mike Modano M. Modano	1.42	81	26	41	67	0	52	15	16	0	1	8	1	205	12.7	877	1,730	50.7	43	61	115	160	23:19
8	Mikael Backlund M. Backlund	1.40	42	12	10	22	-5	32	2	4	2	0	2	1	121	9.9	344	706	48.7	67	24	59	35	19:25
9	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	1.32	34	5	14	19	+13	20	3	8	0	0	1	0	77	6.5	1	1	100.0	72	59	45	36	28:57
10	Scott Stevens S. Stevens	1.31	78	7	21	28	+31	61	1	2	0	2	3	0	103	6.8	0	0		231	153	102	83	24:04
11	Peter Forsberg P. Forsberg	1.30	83	33	59	92	+38	88	6	20	1	0	13	3	183	18.0	271	575	47.1	166	16	108	95	19:42
12	Harold Druken H. Druken	1.25	4	0	1	1	-5	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	6	0.0	16	25	64.0	1	0	5	2	13:44
13	Greg Adams G. Adams	1.20	5	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	2	3	66.7	4	2	6	2	15:19
14	Pavel Datsyuk P. Datsyuk	1.18	157	42	71	113	+34	55	15	23	0	0	7	0	424	9.9	1,170	2,223	52.6	223	90	186	92	19:04
15	Igor Ulanov I. Ulanov	1.18	11	0	0	0	-7	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0.0	0	0		24	44	13	22	21:02
16	Scott Niedermayer S. Niedermayer	1.13	134	16	52	68	+18	107	6	23	3	0	6	2	256	6.3	1	2	50.0	180	187	152	168	26:35
17	Steve Rucchin S. Rucchin	1.12	25	8	3	11	-4	2	2	1	0	1	2	1	55	14.5	261	503	51.9	10	24	28	25	22:01
18	Auston Matthews A. Matthews	1.12	68	26	33	59	+2	13	6	11	0	0	7	1	282	9.2	613	1,130	54.2	198	88	76	43	21:20
19	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	1.11	18	6	11	17	+4	4	1	5	0	1	3	0	39	15.4	167	360	46.4	10	6	20	23	24:35
20	Josef Vasicek J. Vasicek	1.11	37	5	2	7	+3	14	0	0	0	0	1	1	54	9.3	158	321	49.2	46	11	41	15	13:39
21	Stu Barnes S. Barnes	1.09	56	13	12	25	-5	10	5	0	1	0	7	2	94	13.8	325	650	50.0	27	28	61	55	17:39
22	Wes Walz W. Walz	1.09	23	7	7	14	+6	18	0	1	2	1	2	0	38	18.4	178	396	44.9	11	31	25	9	16:12
23	John Madden J. Madden	1.06	141	21	22	43	-2	26	2	2	4	2	4	1	318	6.6	1,094	2,282	47.9	150	79	150	72	16:32
24	Ron Francis R. Francis	1.05	38	6	14	20	-4	8	4	8	0	0	3	1	70	8.6	250	486	51.4	35	25	40	28	18:41
25	Sergei Fedorov S. Fedorov	1.05	63	14	36	50	+5	44	5	17	1	1	3	0	194	7.2	625	1,198	52.2	107	35	66	58	20:46

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