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NHL Shifts Leaders: Montreal Canadiens
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 Montreal Canadiens in 2025-26: Noah Dobson (MTL), 2,047 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 | Noah DobsonDMTL | MTL | 2,047 | 80 | 25.6 | 98%▼1.2 |
| 2 | Mike MathesonDMTL | MTL | 1,980 | 78 | 25.4 | 85%▼7.8 |
| 3 | Lane HutsonDMTL | MTL | 1,969 | 82 | 24.0 | 99%▲3.1 |
| 4 | Nick SuzukiFMTL | MTL | 1,775 | 82 | 21.6 | 100%▲0.5 |
| 5 | Alexandre CarrierDMTL | MTL | 1,667 | 73 | 22.8 | 14%▲12 |
| 6 | Cole CaufieldFMTL | MTL | 1,640 | 81 | 20.2 | 100%▲1.2 |
| 7 | Juraj SlafkovskýFMTL | MTL | 1,622 | 82 | 19.8 | 100%▲1.5 |
| 8 | Oliver KapanenFMTL | MTL | 1,492 | 82 | 18.2 | 29%▲25 |
| 9 | Ivan DemidovFMTL | MTL | 1,447 | 82 | 17.6 | 91%▲22 |
| 10 | Phillip DanaultFMTL/LAK | MTL/LAK | 1,377 | 75 | 18.4 | 4.9%▲4.5 |
| 11 | Jake EvansFMTL | MTL | 1,275 | 68 | 18.8 | 5.7%▲5.2 |
| 12 | Josh AndersonFMTL | MTL | 1,257 | 72 | 17.5 | 10%▲9.2 |
| 13 | Zachary BolducFMTL | MTL | 1,249 | 78 | 16.0 | 21%▲19 |
| 14 | Brendan GallagherFMTL | MTL | 1,207 | 77 | 15.7 | 3.3%▲2.8 |
| 15 | Jayden StrubleDMTL | MTL | 958 | 59 | 16.2 | 3.3%▲2.9 |
| 16 | Joseph VelenoFMTL | MTL | 925 | 61 | 15.2 | 4.1%▲3.9 |
| 17 | Arber XhekajDMTL | MTL | 898 | 65 | 13.8 | 10%▲6.3 |
| 18 | Kaiden GuhleDMTL | MTL | 874 | 39 | 22.4 | 19%▲18 |
| 19 | Alexandre TexierFMTL/STL | MTL/STL | 828 | 51 | 16.2 | 4.9%▲4.3 |
| 20 | Alex NewhookFMTL | MTL | 720 | 42 | 17.1 | 26%▲23 |
| 21 | Kirby DachFMTL | MTL | 603 | 37 | 16.3 | 12%▲12 |
| 22 | Adam EngstromDMTL | MTL | 254 | 15 | 16.9 | 6.4%▲6.3 |
| 23 | Sammy BlaisFMTL/TOR | MTL/TOR | 228 | 21 | 10.9 | — |
| 24 | Owen BeckFMTL | MTL | 189 | 15 | 12.6 | 8.8%▲8.7 |
| 25 | Jared DavidsonFMTL | MTL | 118 | 10 | 11.8 | 0.0% |
| 26 | Patrik LaineFMTL | MTL | 73 | 5 | 14.6 | 9.7%▲9.2 |
| 27 | Florian XhekajFMTL | MTL | 64 | 5 | 12.8 | 8.1%▲7.7 |
| 28 | Joshua RoyFMTL | MTL | 37 | 3 | 12.3 | 8.0%▲8 |
| 29 | David ReinbacherDMTL | MTL | 36 | 2 | 18.0 | 28%▲27 |
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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