who has the best plus-minus in the nhl in the past 20 years

Between August 14, 2005 and August 14, 2025, Ryan McDonagh has the highest plus/minus, at +289.

	NAME	+/-	GP	G	A	P	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Ryan McDonagh R. McDonagh	+289	1,010	80	340	420	369	9	61	5	15	15	3	1,518	5.3	2	5	40.0	1,080	2,011	515	775	22:34
2	Brad Marchand B. Marchand	+285	1,100	424	556	980	1,113	84	163	36	23	82	21	2,811	15.1	268	688	39.0	1,039	381	675	946	18:02
3	Patrice Bergeron P. Bergeron	+284	1,223	411	590	1,001	474	124	187	22	26	79	9	3,841	10.7	14,837	25,507	58.2	972	847	811	448	18:49
4	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	+270	1,221	168	380	548	1,319	79	111	5	17	27	2	2,765	6.1	13	36	36.1	2,455	1,752	465	1,022	24:04
5	Pavel Datsyuk P. Datsyuk	+227	744	261	503	764	173	86	196	5	5	45	8	1,947	13.4	5,981	10,936	54.7	558	339	926	539	19:43
6	Joe Pavelski J. Pavelski	+201	1,332	476	592	1,068	458	176	207	10	8	75	5	3,706	12.8	8,192	15,060	54.4	1,380	1,139	745	857	18:34
7	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	+197	1,352	625	1,062	1,687	854	184	403	4	7	100	25	4,299	14.5	15,664	29,637	52.9	1,181	662	772	1,107	20:40
8	Victor Hedman V. Hedman	+193	1,131	171	623	794	772	35	250	1	13	29	8	2,422	7.1	1	3	33.3	1,171	1,746	554	925	23:26
9	Mattias Ekholm M. Ekholm	+187	884	86	274	360	428	14	41	4	9	18	4	1,524	5.6	0	1	0.0	790	1,132	385	668	21:44
10	Devon Toews D. Toews	+186	473	62	216	278	126	8	35	0	2	14	5	944	6.6	0	1	0.0	384	628	260	304	23:20
11	Chris Kunitz C. Kunitz	+183	1,001	268	345	613	734	77	80	6	3	46	0	2,107	12.7	101	241	41.9	2,227	311	330	432	16:12
12	Marian Hossa M. Hossa	+181	842	337	407	744	385	89	148	30	9	53	12	2,866	11.8	33	110	30.0	662	294	748	417	19:16
13	Nathan MacKinnon N. MacKinnon	+173	870	367	648	1,015	389	102	224	2	2	69	14	3,492	10.5	5,539	11,961	46.3	597	474	458	643	20:32
14	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	+173	548	91	325	416	238	50	176	0	9	13	2	1,352	6.7	0	0		264	567	239	338	25:42
15	Connor McDavid C. McDavid	+168	712	361	721	1,082	276	87	277	8	9	72	16	2,407	15.0	3,935	8,242	47.7	533	280	663	652	21:44
16	Jaccob Slavin J. Slavin	+167	745	55	244	299	94	7	21	4	14	9	3	1,286	4.3	0	1	0.0	433	1,241	699	451	22:27
17	David Krejci D. Krejci	+166	1,032	231	555	786	359	54	149	4	8	43	5	1,848	12.5	7,090	13,978	50.7	729	572	493	492	17:50
18	Duncan Keith D. Keith	+159	1,256	106	540	646	675	30	156	5	15	19	3	2,526	4.2	0	1	0.0	684	2,010	650	1,002	24:41
19	Gustav Forsling G. Forsling	+158	477	57	135	192	167	4	13	1	4	7	4	991	5.8	0	1	0.0	418	536	226	334	20:52
20	Brayden McNabb B. McNabb	+158	822	33	146	179	531	1	7	2	7	4	0	887	3.7	1	1	100.0	1,924	1,521	293	431	18:58
21	Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	+157	803	357	637	994	386	96	268	0	0	57	7	2,481	14.4	10	22	45.5	446	263	454	766	19:00
22	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	+157	1,205	270	848	1,118	661	93	328	3	6	43	5	2,019	13.4	8,476	15,817	53.6	786	406	962	1,249	18:38
23	Ian Cole I. Cole	+152	908	35	175	210	821	0	6	0	2	4	0	940	3.7	0	0		1,180	1,683	253	528	18:00
24	Auston Matthews A. Matthews	+151	629	401	326	727	134	104	99	2	1	63	12	2,534	15.8	4,977	9,338	53.3	441	625	591	490	19:52
25	Christopher Tanev C. Tanev	+151	867	36	172	208	218	2	6	1	5	10	4	704	5.1	0	0		402	1,841	266	519	19:58