NHL & WHA Yearly Leaders and Records for Defensive Point Shares
Active players are listed in bold.
Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame are marked with an asterisk (*).
NHL Leaders
Season | Player | DPS |
---|---|---|
2023-24 | Gustav Forsling | 8.00 |
2022-23 | Hampus Lindholm | 7.16 |
2021-22 | Charlie McAvoy | 6.79 |
2020-21 | Darnell Nurse | 5.25 |
2019-20 | Jaccob Slavin | 5.68 |
2018-19 | Esa Lindell | 6.72 |
2017-18 | Drew Doughty | 7.26 |
2016-17 | Drew Doughty | 7.15 |
2015-16 | Drew Doughty | 7.10 |
2014-15 | P.K. Subban | 6.61 |
2013-14 | Matt Niskanen | 6.96 |
2012-13 | Andy Greene | 3.84 |
2011-12 | Ryan McDonagh | 6.73 |
2010-11 | Toni Lydman | 6.43 |
2009-10 | Zdeno Chára | 7.19 |
2008-09 | Duncan Keith | 6.35 |
2007-08 | Nicklas Lidström* | 8.07 |
2006-07 | Nicklas Lidström* | 7.90 |
2005-06 | Michal Rozsíval | 6.82 |
2003-04 | Scott Niedermayer* | 6.89 |
2002-03 | Derian Hatcher | 7.39 |
2001-02 | Chris Chelios* | 7.25 |
2000-01 | Sergei Zubov* | 6.64 |
1999-00 | Chris Pronger* | 9.62 |
1998-99 | Al MacInnis* | 7.68 |
1997-98 | Chris Pronger* | 7.31 |
1996-97 | Vladimir Konstantinov | 7.08 |
1995-96 | Vladimir Konstantinov | 8.55 |
1994-95 | Scott Niedermayer* | 4.01 |
1993-94 | Scott Stevens* | 6.89 |
1992-93 | Don Sweeney | 6.42 |
1991-92 | Chris Chelios* | 6.41 |
1990-91 | Chris Chelios* | 5.86 |
1989-90 | Ray Bourque* | 6.42 |
1988-89 | Chris Chelios* | 6.66 |
1987-88 | Petr Svoboda | 6.21 |
1986-87 | Mark Howe* | 6.47 |
1985-86 | Brad McCrimmon | 8.87 |
1984-85 | Mike Ramsey | 6.86 |
1983-84 | Ray Bourque* | 7.20 |
1982-83 | Mike O'Connell | 6.60 |
1981-82 | Brian Engblom | 7.89 |
1980-81 | Brian Engblom | 7.80 |
1979-80 | Jim Schoenfeld | 7.74 |
1978-79 | Denis Potvin* | 7.31 |
1977-78 | Larry Robinson* | 7.56 |
1976-77 | Larry Robinson* | 9.86 |
1975-76 | Guy Lapointe* | 7.71 |
1974-75 | Bobby Orr* | 8.41 |
1973-74 | Bobby Orr* | 7.67 |
1972-73 | Serge Savard* | 7.32 |
1971-72 | Bobby Orr* | 8.12 |
1970-71 | Bobby Orr* | 9.34 |
1969-70 | Keith Magnuson | 7.11 |
1968-69 | Gary Bergman | 6.48 |
1967-68 | J.C. Tremblay | 6.19 |
1966-67 | Pat Stapleton | 5.17 |
  | Pierre Pilote* | 5.17 |
  | Doug Jarrett | 5.17 |
1965-66 | Jimmy Roberts | 5.12 |
1964-65 | Moose Vasko | 4.93 |
  | Al MacNeil | 4.93 |
1963-64 | J.C. Tremblay | 5.09 |
  | Terry Harper | 5.09 |
1962-63 | Tim Horton* | 5.08 |
  | Kent Douglas | 5.08 |
  | Carl Brewer | 5.08 |
1961-62 | J.C. Tremblay | 5.69 |
  | Jean-Guy Talbot | 5.69 |
1960-61 | Bob Baun | 5.44 |
1959-60 | Pierre Pilote* | 4.83 |
1958-59 | Tom Johnson* | 5.50 |
1957-58 | Doug Harvey* | 5.44 |
1956-57 | Tom Johnson* | 5.40 |
  | Doug Harvey* | 5.40 |
1955-56 | Jean-Guy Talbot | 5.84 |
1954-55 | Jimmy Thomson | 5.88 |
  | Jim Morrison | 5.88 |
1953-54 | Tim Horton* | 5.91 |
1952-53 | Benny Woit | 5.75 |
  | Red Kelly* | 5.75 |
  | Bob Goldham | 5.75 |
1951-52 | Marcel Pronovost* | 6.09 |
  | Bob Goldham | 6.09 |
1950-51 | Jimmy Thomson | 6.04 |
1949-50 | Doug Harvey* | 5.54 |
1948-49 | Glen Harmon | 5.05 |
1947-48 | Jimmy Thomson | 4.83 |
1946-47 | Butch Bouchard* | 5.45 |
1945-46 | Glen Harmon | 4.42 |
1944-45 | Butch Bouchard* | 5.61 |
1943-44 | Leo Lamoureux | 6.13 |
1942-43 | Alex Motter | 5.41 |
1941-42 | Des Smith | 4.16 |
  | Flash Hollett | 4.16 |
1940-41 | Wally Stanowski | 4.50 |
1939-40 | Babe Pratt* | 5.24 |
  | Art Coulter* | 5.24 |
1938-39 | Jack Portland | 4.94 |
  | Jack Crawford | 4.94 |
1937-38 | Eddie Shore* | 4.68 |
  | Jack Portland | 4.68 |
  | Flash Hollett | 4.68 |
1936-37 | Bucko McDonald | 4.04 |
1935-36 | Ted Graham | 4.84 |
1934-35 | Art Coulter* | 4.90 |
1933-34 | Lionel Conacher* | 5.07 |
1932-33 | Eddie Shore* | 4.63 |
1931-32 | Alex Smith | 4.63 |
1930-31 | King Clancy* | 4.89 |
1929-30 | Eddie Shore* | 4.89 |
  | George Owen | 4.89 |
1928-29 | Sylvio Mantha* | 5.52 |
  | Marty Burke | 5.52 |
1927-28 | Alex Smith | 6.22 |
  | Georges Boucher* | 6.22 |
1926-27 | Herb Gardiner* | 5.57 |
1925-26 | Alex Smith | 5.88 |
  | Georges Boucher* | 5.88 |
1924-25 | Sylvio Mantha* | 4.26 |
1923-24 | Sylvio Mantha* | 3.63 |
1922-23 | Billy Coutu | 3.71 |
  | Sprague Cleghorn* | 3.71 |
1921-22 | King Clancy* | 2.85 |
1920-21 | Eddie Gerard* | 4.17 |
1919-20 | Eddie Gerard* | 4.02 |
  | Georges Boucher* | 4.02 |
1918-19 | Eddie Gerard* | 2.89 |
  | Sprague Cleghorn* | 2.89 |
1917-18 | Joe Hall* | 3.15 |
  | Bert Corbeau | 3.15 |
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