NHL Player Leaders

The league's leaders, each board with its minimum stated.

Who leads the league in scoring, ice time and goaltending — and, from our own model, which skaters tilt the ice most at five-on-five?

2026-27 seasonregular season

Leaders inPointsGoalsAssistsShotsTime on ice5-on-5 impact (ours)

Time on icetop 50 of 604 · at least 1 game

Zach Werenski (CBJ) leads at 30:15, 0:38 clear of Jackson LaCombe, among the 604 players with at least 1 game.

Average minutes a game, all situations. Top defensemen lead this; it measures trust, not output. Players with fewer than 1 game are left off: 30% of the most games anyone has played this season.

#	Player	Pos	GP	P	TOI
1	Zach Werenski	D	2	2	30:15
2	Jackson LaCombe	D	1	1	29:37
3	Seth Jones	D	2	0	28:21
4	Denton Mateychuk	D	2	1	27:48
5	Thomas Chabot	D	1	2	27:06
6	Tristan Luneau	D	1	1	26:58
7	Lane Hutson	D	2	3	26:37
8	Mike Matheson	D	2	1	25:46
9	Evan Bouchard	D	3	8	25:41
10	Filip Hronek	D	3	4	25:41
11	Rasmus Dahlin	D	2	1	25:41
12	Miro Heiskanen	D	2	1	25:40
13	Josh Morrissey	D	1	0	25:22
14	Owen Power	D	2	3	25:19
15	Moritz Seider	D	1	0	25:16
16	Bowen Byram	D	2	0	24:59
17	Quinn Hughes	D	2	3	24:57
18	Roman Josi	D	2	2	24:46
19	Neal Pionk	D	1	0	24:37
20	Travis Sanheim	D	3	2	24:22
21	Matthew Schaefer	D	2	2	24:10
22	Brandon Montour	D	2	0	23:46
23	Connor McDavid	C	3	9	23:44
24	K'Andre Miller	D	3	1	23:34
25	Thomas Harley	D	2	0	23:28
26	Nikita Kucherov	R	2	2	23:27
27	Jack Hughes	C	2	1	23:25
28	Mikko Rantanen	R	2	1	23:03
29	Cam Fowler	D	2	0	23:01
30	Shea Theodore	D	2	3	23:01
31	Jakob Chychrun	D	2	3	23:01
32	Luke Hughes	D	2	1	22:59
33	Brandon Hagel	L	2	2	22:54
34	Dylan DeMelo	D	1	1	22:53
35	Tim Stützle	C	1	1	22:51
36	Dylan Samberg	D	1	0	22:46
37	Gustav Forsling	D	1	1	22:40
38	Noah Dobson	D	2	1	22:30
39	Jordan Spence	D	1	0	22:30
40	Mikhail Sergachev	D	2	3	22:29
41	Mark Scheifele	C	1	0	22:29
42	Cam York	D	3	0	22:26
43	Ryan Shea	D	3	3	22:26
44	Olli Maatta	D	2	1	22:24
45	Darren Raddysh	D	3	1	22:23
46	Wyatt Johnston	C	2	1	22:20
47	Macklin Celebrini	C	2	5	22:20
48	Andrew Copp	C	1	0	22:17
49	Sam Reinhart	C	2	0	22:15
50	Marcus Pettersson	D	3	0	22:14

How this is measured

Scoring, ice time and goaltending numbers are the NHL's own regular-season totals for 2026-27. A player traded during the season is counted once, with the crest of his last club.

5-on-5 impact is ours. Our lineup model splits every five-on-five shift into who was on the ice and the expected goals each side created, and solves for each skater's effect on both, with linemates, opponents, home ice and the score accounted for. The number is expected goals for minus against per 60 minutes that his presence adds. It is not the player's own expected goals — we do not publish a per-shooter number — and it cannot see the power play, the penalty kill, or anything that happens away from the puck and never becomes a shot. More →