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NHL Takeaways Leaders: Tampa Bay Lightning
2017-18All situationsThrough 82 team games
This board ranks every NHL skater by takeaways, regular season only. Pick any season back to 2017-18 above the table.
A takeaway is a puck won from an opponent by a skater's own effort, as judged by the off-ice scorer. Smart two-way forwards with active sticks lead the league. Takeaways are a category in some deep leagues. Recording changed in 2024-25 (about a third fewer takeaways league-wide), so compare players within a season.
Leader for the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2017-18: Nikita Kucherov (TBL), 66 TK.
- Legacy recording: before 2024-25 turnovers and hits were recorded arena by arena with large scorer bias. Compare players within this season only.
Takeaways leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | TK | GP | Per game | GV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikita KucherovFTBL | TBL | 66 | 80 | 0.82 | 79 | 100% |
| 2 | Brayden PointFTBL | TBL | 56 | 82 | 0.68 | 23 | 95%▲7.5 |
| 3 | Yanni GourdeFTBL | TBL | 52 | 82 | 0.63 | 35 | 4.9%▲4 |
| 4 | Victor HedmanDTBL | TBL | 46 | 77 | 0.60 | 67 | 93%▲11 |
| 5 | Ryan McDonaghDNYR/TBL | NYR/TBL | 44 | 63 | 0.70 | 60 | 7.3%▲6.8 |
| 6 | J.T. MillerFNYR/TBL | NYR/TBL | 43 | 82 | 0.52 | 72 | 92%▲7.7 |
| 7 | Tyler JohnsonFTBL | TBL | 39 | 81 | 0.48 | 23 | — |
| 8 | Chris KunitzFTBL | TBL | 38 | 82 | 0.46 | 29 | — |
| 9 | Ondrej PalatFTBL | TBL | 34 | 56 | 0.61 | 41 | 0.1% |
| 10 | Alex KillornFTBL | TBL | 32 | 82 | 0.39 | 32 | 5.1%▲3.6 |
| 11 | Anton StralmanDTBL | TBL | 31 | 80 | 0.39 | 29 | — |
| 12 | Vladislav NamestnikovFTBL/NYR | TBL/NYR | 27 | 81 | 0.33 | 24 | 0.1% |
| 13 | Steven StamkosFTBL | TBL | 27 | 78 | 0.35 | 50 | 94%▼4.2 |
| 14 | Ryan CallahanFTBL | TBL | 26 | 67 | 0.39 | 16 | — |
| 15 | Mikhail SergachevDTBL | TBL | 21 | 79 | 0.27 | 60 | 98%▲5.2 |
| 16 | Dan GirardiDTBL | TBL | 15 | 77 | 0.19 | 27 | — |
| 17 | Braydon CoburnDTBL | TBL | 11 | 72 | 0.15 | 23 | — |
| 18 | JT BrownFTBL/ANA | TBL/ANA | 11 | 47 | 0.23 | 11 | — |
| 19 | Cedric PaquetteFTBL | TBL | 8 | 56 | 0.14 | 6 | — |
| 20 | Anthony CirelliFTBL | TBL | 8 | 18 | 0.44 | 4 | 51%▲19 |
| 21 | Andrej SustrDTBL | TBL | 6 | 44 | 0.14 | 16 | — |
| 22 | Cory ConacherFTBL | TBL | 5 | 36 | 0.14 | 5 | — |
| 23 | Gabriel DumontFOTT/TBL | OTT/TBL | 5 | 30 | 0.17 | 3 | — |
| 24 | Jake DotchinDTBL | TBL | 4 | 48 | 0.08 | 33 | — |
| 25 | Adam ErneFTBL | TBL | 4 | 23 | 0.17 | 4 | 0.0% |
| 26 | Slater KoekkoekDTBL | TBL | 3 | 35 | 0.09 | 6 | — |
| 27 | Matthew PecaFTBL | TBL | 1 | 10 | 0.10 | 5 | — |
| 28 | Michael BournivalFTBL | TBL | 1 | 5 | 0.20 | 0 | — |
How to read it
Pucks won from an opponent, as credited by the scorer.
How reliable is it?
Scorer judgment drives the totals: arena bias was large before 2024-25, when recording was centralised.
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