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NHL Shifts Leaders: Pittsburgh Penguins
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 Pittsburgh Penguins in 2025-26: Brett Kulak (EDM/COL/PIT), 1,708 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 | Brett KulakDEDM/COL/PIT | EDM/COL/PIT | 1,708 | 83 | 20.6 | 0.3% |
| 2 | Erik KarlssonDPIT | PIT | 1,654 | 75 | 22.1 | 95% |
| 3 | Parker WotherspoonDPIT | PIT | 1,638 | 80 | 20.5 | 20%▲19 |
| 4 | Ryan SheaDPIT | PIT | 1,565 | 80 | 19.6 | 16%▲11 |
| 5 | Bryan RustFPIT | PIT | 1,559 | 72 | 21.7 | 85%▲2.5 |
| 6 | Kris LetangDPIT | PIT | 1,554 | 74 | 21.0 | 47%▼16 |
| 7 | Tommy NovakFPIT | PIT | 1,393 | 82 | 17.0 | 11%▲9.1 |
| 8 | Sidney CrosbyFPIT | PIT | 1,372 | 68 | 20.2 | 100%▲2.4 |
| 9 | Connor DewarFPIT | PIT | 1,361 | 78 | 17.4 | 4.2%▲3.1 |
| 10 | Ben KindelFPIT | PIT | 1,356 | 77 | 17.6 | 40%▲31 |
| 11 | Anthony ManthaFPIT | PIT | 1,344 | 81 | 16.6 | 52%▲15 |
| 12 | Samuel GirardDCOL/PIT | COL/PIT | 1,272 | 60 | 21.2 | 9.0%▲8.6 |
| 13 | Rickard RakellFPIT | PIT | 1,264 | 60 | 21.1 | 83%▲11 |
| 14 | Egor ChinakhovFPIT/CBJ | PIT/CBJ | 1,164 | 72 | 16.2 | 48%▲39 |
| 15 | Noel AcciariFPIT | PIT | 1,112 | 67 | 16.6 | 3.3%▲3.1 |
| 16 | Evgeni MalkinFPIT | PIT | 999 | 56 | 17.8 | 82%▲11 |
| 17 | Justin BrazeauFPIT | PIT | 963 | 64 | 15.0 | 11%▲9.4 |
| 18 | Blake LizotteFPIT | PIT | 949 | 55 | 17.3 | 0.1% |
| 19 | Connor CliftonDPIT | PIT | 909 | 50 | 18.2 | 7.4%▲6.7 |
| 20 | Elmer SoderblomFDET/PIT | DET/PIT | 830 | 59 | 14.1 | 4.8%▲4.6 |
| 21 | Danton HeinenFCBJ/PIT | CBJ/PIT | 720 | 46 | 15.7 | 0.0% |
| 22 | Ville KoivunenFPIT | PIT | 580 | 39 | 14.9 | 17%▲17 |
| 23 | Ilya SolovyovDCOL/PIT | COL/PIT | 454 | 30 | 15.1 | 0.1% |
| 24 | Kevin HayesFPIT | PIT | 453 | 28 | 16.2 | 0.0% |
| 25 | Ryan GravesDPIT | PIT | 407 | 22 | 18.5 | 0.1% |
| 26 | Rutger McGroartyFPIT | PIT | 384 | 24 | 16.0 | — |
| 27 | Jack St. IvanyDPIT | PIT | 362 | 20 | 18.1 | 3.2%▲3.2 |
| 28 | Avery HayesFPIT | PIT | 227 | 16 | 14.2 | — |
| 29 | Joona KoppanenFPIT | PIT | 218 | 13 | 16.8 | 0.0% |
| 30 | Filip HallanderFPIT | PIT | 134 | 13 | 10.3 | 9.1%▲9 |
| 31 | Harrison BrunickeDPIT | PIT | 133 | 9 | 14.8 | 14%▲14 |
| 32 | Mathew DumbaDPIT | PIT | 123 | 11 | 11.2 | 0.1% |
| 33 | Caleb JonesDPIT | PIT | 123 | 7 | 17.6 | 0.1% |
| 34 | Philip TomasinoFPIT | PIT | 117 | 9 | 13.0 | — |
| 35 | Owen PickeringDPIT | PIT | 32 | 4 | 8.0 | 10%▲10 |
| 36 | Sam PoulinFPIT | PIT | 30 | 2 | 15.0 | 3.2%▲3.2 |
| 37 | Jake LivanavageDPIT | PIT | 21 | 1 | 21.0 | — |
| 38 | Bokondji ImamaFPIT | PIT | 20 | 2 | 10.0 | 0.2% |
| 39 | Rafael Harvey-PinardFPIT | PIT | 16 | 1 | 16.0 | — |
| 40 | Tristan BrozFPIT | PIT | 15 | 1 | 15.0 | 3.2%▲3.2 |
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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