Rob Blake had the most takeaways by a defenseman in 2003-04, with 69 taken.

	NAME	TKA	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Rob Blake R. Blake	69	2003-04	COL	74	13	33	46	+6	61	8	18	0	1	3	0	242	5.4	0	1	0.0	136	150	47	24:23
2	Keith Carney K. Carney	65	2003-04	ANA	69	2	5	7	-5	42	1	1	0	0	0	0	58	3.4	0	0		55	74	52	21:43
3	Kenny Jonsson K. Jonsson	64	2003-04	NYI	79	5	24	29	+25	22	3	6	0	3	2	0	106	4.7	0	0		64	121	31	22:56
4	Scott Niedermayer S. Niedermayer	63	2003-04	NJD	81	14	40	54	+20	44	9	16	0	3	3	1	165	8.5	0	1	0.0	28	93	105	25:56
5	Karlis Skrastins K. Skrastins	60	2003-04	COL	82	5	8	13	+18	26	0	1	1	0	1	1	102	4.9	0	0		73	182	50	21:49
6	Adrian Aucoin A. Aucoin	57	2003-04	NYI	81	13	31	44	+29	54	4	13	0	0	2	1	213	6.1	0	0		157	107	44	26:38
7	Mathieu Schneider M. Schneider	53	2003-04	DET	78	14	32	46	+22	56	4	16	1	0	4	0	165	8.5	0	4	0.0	142	126	28	24:29
8	Dan Boyle D. Boyle	51	2003-04	TBL	78	9	30	39	+23	60	3	12	0	0	2	0	137	6.6	0	0		80	69	68	22:46
9	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	48	2003-04	DET	81	10	28	38	+19	18	3	18	1	2	3	1	194	5.2	0	0		29	105	56	27:39
10	Eric Brewer E. Brewer	46	2003-04	EDM	77	7	18	25	-6	67	3	7	0	2	1	1	135	5.2	0	0		59	94	95	24:40
11	Dan Hamhuis D. Hamhuis	46	2003-04	NSH	80	7	19	26	-12	57	2	6	0	1	4	0	115	6.1	0	0		111	87	52	22:08
12	Derek Morris D. Morris	44	2003-04	TOT	83	6	26	32	-1	49	2	11	0	0	1	1	167	3.6	0	0		120	102	38	21:35
13	Philippe Boucher P. Boucher	43	2003-04	DAL	70	8	16	24	+15	64	2	3	0	0	2	0	134	6.0	0	0		131	144	108	22:24
14	Andrei Markov A. Markov	42	2003-04	MTL	69	6	22	28	-2	20	2	8	0	0	0	0	105	5.7	1	2	50.0	29	84	80	21:29
15	Patrice Brisebois P. Brisebois	41	2003-04	MTL	71	4	27	31	+17	22	2	9	0	0	0	0	96	4.2	0	0		35	97	64	21:20
16	Teppo Numminen T. Numminen	41	2003-04	DAL	62	3	14	17	-5	18	0	7	0	0	0	0	83	3.6	1	1	100.0	29	57	69	21:40
17	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	40	2003-04	DET	69	2	19	21	+12	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	113	1.8	0	0		56	94	74	21:21
18	Sergei Gonchar S. Gonchar	40	2003-04	TOT	71	11	47	58	-14	56	6	28	0	0	0	0	161	6.8	0	0		34	72	84	27:26
19	Brian Leetch B. Leetch	39	2003-04	TOT	72	15	36	51	+6	34	5	25	1	1	2	0	206	7.3	0	0		69	97	66	26:17
20	Richard Matvichuk R. Matvichuk	39	2003-04	DAL	75	1	20	21	0	36	0	7	0	1	1	0	85	1.2	1	2	50.0	110	137	72	21:50
21	Cory Sarich C. Sarich	39	2003-04	TBL	82	3	16	19	+5	89	0	0	1	1	1	0	93	3.2	0	1	0.0	115	118	63	18:31
22	Niclas Havelid N. Havelid	38	2003-04	ANA	79	6	20	26	-28	28	5	16	0	0	3	1	122	4.9	0	0		63	88	48	22:39
23	Sheldon Souray S. Souray	38	2003-04	MTL	63	15	20	35	+4	104	6	11	1	1	3	1	186	8.1	0	0		108	83	95	23:26
24	Adam Foote A. Foote	36	2003-04	COL	73	8	22	30	+13	87	5	5	0	1	1	1	105	7.6	0	0		97	101	34	24:03
25	Filip Kuba F. Kuba	36	2003-04	MIN	77	5	19	24	-7	28	2	11	1	0	2	0	114	4.4	0	2	0.0	35	90	68	24:06