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NHL Shifts Leaders: Washington Capitals
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 Washington Capitals in 2025-26: Connor McMichael (WSH), 1,726 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 | Connor McMichaelFWSH | WSH | 1,726 | 78 | 22.1 | 34%▲27 |
| 2 | Jakob ChychrunDWSH | WSH | 1,716 | 80 | 21.4 | 99% |
| 3 | Martin FehérváryDWSH | WSH | 1,681 | 81 | 20.8 | 27%▼7.7 |
| 4 | Matt RoyDWSH | WSH | 1,674 | 79 | 21.2 | 9.0%▲8.3 |
| 5 | John CarlsonDWSH/ANA | WSH/ANA | 1,662 | 71 | 23.4 | 99%▲2.4 |
| 6 | Aliaksei ProtasFWSH | WSH | 1,648 | 76 | 21.7 | 59%▲33 |
| 7 | Dylan StromeFWSH | WSH | 1,647 | 80 | 20.6 | 83%▲11 |
| 8 | Anthony BeauvillierFWSH | WSH | 1,593 | 82 | 19.4 | 4.0%▲3.8 |
| 9 | Tom WilsonFWSH | WSH | 1,579 | 72 | 21.9 | 94%▲6.3 |
| 10 | Rasmus SandinDWSH | WSH | 1,560 | 73 | 21.4 | 14%▲11 |
| 11 | Alex OvechkinFWSH | WSH | 1,548 | 82 | 18.9 | 96%▲1.2 |
| 12 | Nic DowdFWSH/VGK | WSH/VGK | 1,427 | 75 | 19.0 | 3.2%▲3.1 |
| 13 | Justin SourdifFWSH | WSH | 1,416 | 78 | 18.2 | 17%▲16 |
| 14 | Brandon DuhaimeFWSH | WSH | 1,308 | 82 | 16.0 | 3.2%▲3 |
| 15 | Ryan LeonardFWSH | WSH | 1,275 | 75 | 17.0 | 66%▲42 |
| 16 | Trevor van RiemsdykDWSH | WSH | 1,264 | 68 | 18.6 | 0.8% |
| 17 | Timothy LiljegrenDSJS/WSH | SJS/WSH | 1,048 | 47 | 22.3 | 4.8%▲4.7 |
| 18 | Ethen FrankFWSH | WSH | 1,005 | 62 | 16.2 | 3.2%▲3.1 |
| 19 | Hendrix LapierreFWSH | WSH | 819 | 74 | 11.1 | 8.1%▲8 |
| 20 | David KampfFVAN/WSH | VAN/WSH | 810 | 40 | 20.3 | 0.0% |
| 21 | Pierre-Luc DuboisFWSH | WSH | 558 | 29 | 19.2 | 42%▲33 |
| 22 | Declan ChisholmDWSH | WSH | 396 | 26 | 15.2 | 0.1% |
| 23 | Sonny MilanoFWSH | WSH | 354 | 31 | 11.4 | — |
| 24 | Cole HutsonDWSH | WSH | 285 | 14 | 20.4 | 87%▲46 |
| 25 | Ivan MiroshnichenkoFWSH | WSH | 175 | 13 | 13.5 | 15%▲15 |
| 26 | Dylan McIlrathDWSH | WSH | 145 | 13 | 11.2 | 0.1% |
| 27 | Ilya ProtasFWSH | WSH | 77 | 4 | 19.3 | 44%▲41 |
| 28 | Brett LeasonFWSH | WSH | 72 | 6 | 12.0 | 0.0% |
| 29 | Bogdan TrineyevFWSH | WSH | 31 | 2 | 15.5 | — |
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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