Jeremy Lauzon made the most hits by a defenseman in 2023-24, with 383 hits.

	NAME	HIT	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Jeremy Lauzon J. Lauzon	383	2023-24	NSH	79	6	8	14	-3	98	0	0	0	0	0	0	103	5.8	0	0		111	16	28	18:37
2	Simon Benoit S. Benoit	246	2023-24	TOR	64	1	4	5	+7	56	0	0	0	0	0	0	52	1.9	0	0		102	17	29	17:14
3	Brenden Dillon B. Dillon	242	2023-24	WPG	77	8	12	20	+20	82	0	0	0	0	2	0	79	10.1	0	0		111	6	28	18:44
4	Kyle Burroughs K. Burroughs	233	2023-24	SJS	73	2	6	8	-42	71	0	1	0	0	1	0	79	2.5	0	0		134	29	20	19:09
5	Radko Gudas R. Gudas	232	2023-24	ANA	66	6	12	18	+14	128	0	0	0	1	0	0	88	6.8	0	0		154	12	40	19:30
6	Neal Pionk N. Pionk	221	2023-24	WPG	82	5	28	33	+9	63	1	7	0	0	1	0	146	3.4	0	0		118	34	55	20:50
7	Jake McCabe J. McCabe	219	2023-24	TOR	73	8	20	28	+20	56	1	1	0	1	3	1	73	11.0	0	0		129	16	49	20:39
8	Josh Manson J. Manson	211	2023-24	COL	76	8	17	25	+11	87	0	0	1	1	0	0	123	6.5	0	1	0.0	109	46	43	17:47
9	Moritz Seider M. Seider	210	2023-24	DET	82	9	33	42	-7	51	3	14	0	1	0	0	135	6.7	0	0		213	41	39	22:22
10	Matt Dumba M. Dumba	203	2023-24	TOT	76	4	8	12	-18	88	0	0	0	0	0	0	86	4.7	0	1	0.0	108	9	45	19:44
11	Luke Schenn L. Schenn	202	2023-24	NSH	63	1	6	7	+1	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	81	1.2	0	0		76	14	41	15:11
12	Connor Clifton C. Clifton	202	2023-24	BUF	79	4	14	18	+12	68	0	0	0	0	1	0	77	5.2	0	0		117	27	24	16:33
13	Niko Mikkola N. Mikkola	198	2023-24	FLA	82	3	14	17	+11	69	0	0	0	1	0	0	93	3.2	0	0		124	10	37	20:02
14	Erik Cernak E. Cernak	197	2023-24	TBL	69	2	11	13	+5	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	53	3.8	0	0		109	16	25	19:11
15	Jani Hakanpaa J. Hakanpaa	196	2023-24	DAL	64	2	10	12	+10	33	0	0	0	0	1	0	56	3.6	0	0		123	13	31	18:39
16	Will Borgen W. Borgen	195	2023-24	SEA	82	3	22	25	-5	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	97	3.1	0	0		111	16	19	17:35
17	Rasmus Dahlin R. Dahlin	194	2023-24	BUF	81	20	39	59	-3	66	6	14	0	0	2	1	235	8.5	0	0		154	42	44	25:25
18	MacKenzie Weegar M. Weegar	193	2023-24	CGY	82	20	32	52	+2	51	3	12	0	2	2	1	208	9.6	0	0		200	46	75	22:56
19	Jacob Trouba J. Trouba	191	2023-24	NYR	69	3	19	22	-4	73	0	1	0	1	0	0	129	2.3	0	0		183	13	33	21:15
20	Andreas Englund A. Englund	189	2023-24	LAK	82	1	9	10	-3	81	0	0	0	0	0	0	41	2.4	0	0		87	8	22	13:13
21	Martin Fehervary M. Fehervary	189	2023-24	WSH	66	3	13	16	-7	24	0	0	0	1	0	0	61	4.9	0	0		109	8	14	19:38
22	Nikita Zadorov N. Zadorov	176	2023-24	TOT	75	6	14	20	0	115	0	0	0	1	1	0	90	6.7	0	0		68	17	32	17:26
23	Ilya Lyubushkin I. Lyubushkin	176	2023-24	TOT	74	0	8	8	-11	57	0	0	0	0	0	0	47	0.0	0	0		168	23	40	17:07
24	Jarred Tinordi J. Tinordi	172	2023-24	CHI	52	0	9	9	-27	64	0	0	0	1	0	0	32	0.0	0	0		94	4	23	15:39
25	Dylan DeMelo D. DeMelo	168	2023-24	WPG	82	3	28	31	+46	36	0	1	0	0	0	0	83	3.6	0	0		139	14	60	21:44