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NHL Shifts Leaders: Colorado Avalanche
2025-26All situationsThrough 82 team games
This board ranks every NHL skater by shifts, regular season only. Pick any season back to 2025-26 above the table.
Shifts count every time a player steps onto the ice, from the NHL's shift charts. Defensemen take the most; top pairs approach 30 a night. A few leagues score shifts. More shifts means more ice time, so the board mirrors the time-on-ice leaders with defensemen on top.
Leader for the Colorado Avalanche in 2025-26: Brent Burns (COL), 1,880 SFT.
- Shift counts start in 2025-26 and are incomplete: 65 regular-season games of 2025-26 and all of its playoff games have no shift data, so totals for those games are missing.
Shifts leaderboard
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| # | Player | Team | SFT | GP | Per game | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brent BurnsDCOL | COL | 1,880 | 82 | 22.9 | 50%▼14 |
| 2 | Brock NelsonFCOL | COL | 1,801 | 81 | 22.2 | 88%▼3.6 |
| 3 | Cale MakarDCOL | COL | 1,792 | 75 | 23.9 | 100%▲1 |
| 4 | Nathan MacKinnonFCOL | COL | 1,736 | 80 | 21.7 | 100%▲0.9 |
| 5 | Josh MansonDCOL | COL | 1,723 | 79 | 21.8 | 32%▲16 |
| 6 | Brett KulakDEDM/COL/PIT | EDM/COL/PIT | 1,708 | 83 | 20.6 | 0.3% |
| 7 | Sam MalinskiDCOL | COL | 1,679 | 82 | 20.5 | 55%▲32 |
| 8 | Devon ToewsDCOL | COL | 1,675 | 68 | 24.6 | 62%▼1 |
| 9 | Martin NecasFCOL | COL | 1,618 | 78 | 20.7 | 100%▲1.8 |
| 10 | Nazem KadriFCGY/COL | CGY/COL | 1,618 | 77 | 21.0 | 71%▼9 |
| 11 | Jack DruryFCOL | COL | 1,529 | 82 | 18.6 | 5.6%▲5.4 |
| 12 | Valeri NichushkinFCOL | COL | 1,523 | 72 | 21.2 | 60% |
| 13 | Artturi LehkonenFCOL | COL | 1,450 | 70 | 20.7 | 57%▲40 |
| 14 | Parker KellyFCOL | COL | 1,405 | 82 | 17.1 | 11%▲5.6 |
| 15 | Nicolas RoyFTOR/COL | TOR/COL | 1,358 | 74 | 18.4 | 4.9%▲4.7 |
| 16 | Victor OlofssonFCOL/CGY | COL/CGY | 1,302 | 78 | 16.7 | 14%▲14 |
| 17 | Nick BlankenburgDNSH/COL | NSH/COL | 1,273 | 61 | 20.9 | 5.6%▲5.5 |
| 18 | Samuel GirardDCOL/PIT | COL/PIT | 1,272 | 60 | 21.2 | 9.0%▲8.6 |
| 19 | Ross ColtonFCOL | COL | 1,194 | 73 | 16.4 | 8.1%▲7.8 |
| 20 | Gabriel LandeskogFCOL | COL | 1,104 | 60 | 18.4 | 50%▲32 |
| 21 | Joel KivirantaFCOL | COL | 798 | 51 | 15.6 | 0.1% |
| 22 | Gavin BrindleyFCOL | COL | 661 | 56 | 11.8 | 14%▲14 |
| 23 | Zakhar BardakovFCOL | COL | 570 | 60 | 9.5 | 0.0% |
| 24 | Ilya SolovyovDCOL/PIT | COL/PIT | 454 | 30 | 15.1 | 0.1% |
| 25 | Logan O'ConnorFCOL | COL | 204 | 13 | 15.7 | 0.2% |
| 26 | Jack AhcanDCOL | COL | 140 | 11 | 12.7 | 0.1% |
| 27 | Taylor MakarFCOL | COL | 113 | 12 | 9.4 | 0.4% |
| 28 | Ivan IvanFCOL | COL | 99 | 9 | 11.0 | 4.0%▲3.8 |
| 29 | Jason PolinFCOL | COL | 46 | 4 | 11.5 | 0.0% |
| 30 | Tristen NielsenFCOL | COL | 38 | 4 | 9.5 | 0.0% |
| 31 | Keaton MiddletonDCOL | COL | 38 | 3 | 12.7 | 0.1% |
| 32 | Alex Barré-BouletFCOL | COL | 27 | 2 | 13.5 | 0.0% |
| 33 | T.J. TynanFCOL | COL | 12 | 1 | 12.0 | — |
How to read it
Shifts taken, from the shift charts (2025-26 onward).
How reliable is it?
Shifts follow ice time and position; the 2025-26 totals miss the games without shift charts.
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