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NHL Shifts Leaders: New Jersey Devils
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 New Jersey Devils in 2025-26: Nico Hischier (NJD), 1,854 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.
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| # | Player | Team | SFT | GP | Per game | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nico HischierFNJD | NJD | 1,854 | 82 | 22.6 | 97%▲2.3 |
| 2 | Dougie HamiltonDNJD | NJD | 1,851 | 77 | 24.0 | 84%▲12 |
| 3 | Jonas SiegenthalerDNJD | NJD | 1,836 | 82 | 22.4 | 3.3%▲2.9 |
| 4 | Jesper BrattFNJD | NJD | 1,738 | 82 | 21.2 | 97%▲11 |
| 5 | Dawson MercerFNJD | NJD | 1,713 | 82 | 20.9 | 25%▲19 |
| 6 | Brenden DillonDNJD | NJD | 1,676 | 82 | 20.4 | 9.7%▲9.1 |
| 7 | Luke HughesDNJD | NJD | 1,595 | 68 | 23.5 | 84%▲40 |
| 8 | Timo MeierFNJD | NJD | 1,552 | 77 | 20.2 | 82%▼8 |
| 9 | Connor BrownFNJD | NJD | 1,444 | 75 | 19.3 | 6.6%▲5.1 |
| 10 | Simon NemecDNJD | NJD | 1,356 | 68 | 19.9 | 62%▲52 |
| 11 | Cody GlassFNJD | NJD | 1,350 | 70 | 19.3 | 4.9%▲4.5 |
| 12 | Ondrej PalatFNJD/NYI | NJD/NYI | 1,346 | 80 | 16.8 | 0.1% |
| 13 | Jack HughesFNJD | NJD | 1,237 | 61 | 20.3 | 100% |
| 14 | Arseny GritsyukFNJD | NJD | 1,177 | 66 | 17.8 | 22%▲21 |
| 15 | Luke GlendeningFNJD/PHI | NJD/PHI | 1,069 | 70 | 15.3 | 0.0% |
| 16 | Paul CotterFNJD | NJD | 1,047 | 79 | 13.3 | 19%▲19 |
| 17 | Nick BjugstadFSTL/NJD | STL/NJD | 867 | 61 | 14.2 | 0.1% |
| 18 | Brett PesceDNJD | NJD | 844 | 37 | 22.8 | 0.3% |
| 19 | Johnathan KovacevicDNJD | NJD | 700 | 34 | 20.6 | 0.1% |
| 20 | Stefan NoesenFNJD | NJD | 576 | 38 | 15.2 | 0.1% |
| 21 | Lenni HameenahoFNJD | NJD | 554 | 33 | 16.8 | 8.8%▲8.8 |
| 22 | Maxim TsyplakovFNYI/NJD | NYI/NJD | 548 | 49 | 11.2 | 14% |
| 23 | Colton WhiteDNJD | NJD | 407 | 23 | 17.7 | 0.1% |
| 24 | Evgenii DadonovFNJD | NJD | 349 | 24 | 14.5 | 0.1% |
| 25 | Dennis CholowskiDNJD | NJD | 309 | 17 | 18.2 | 0.0% |
| 26 | Juho LammikkoFNJD | NJD | 297 | 24 | 12.4 | 0% |
| 27 | Brian HalonenFNJD | NJD | 124 | 15 | 8.3 | 0.0% |
| 28 | Angus CrookshankFNJD | NJD | 90 | 8 | 11.3 | 0.0% |
| 29 | Marc McLaughlinFNJD | NJD | 76 | 7 | 10.9 | 0.0% |
| 30 | Xavier ParentFNJD | NJD | 57 | 5 | 11.4 | 0.0% |
| 31 | Topias VilenDNJD | NJD | 35 | 2 | 17.5 | 0.0% |
| 32 | Zack MacEwenFNJD | NJD | 26 | 3 | 8.7 | 0.1% |
| 33 | Nathan LégaréFNJD | NJD | 10 | 1 | 10.0 | — |
| 34 | Shane LachanceFNJD | NJD | 10 | 1 | 10.0 | 0.0% |
| 35 | Seamus CaseyDNJD | NJD | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 18%▲18 |
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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