Since we just looked at last year's Giveaway leaders, let's now turn our focus to those thieving Takeaway specialists. As reported previously, it appears that Takeaways are indeed correlated with team performance, so we have a relatively straightforward, clear-cut indicator as to how these players are helping their teams.
Results are from the 2005-6 NHL season.
Results are from the 2005-6 NHL season.
| Rob BLAKE, COL | 89 |
| John MADDEN, N.J | 84 |
| Shelon SOURAY, MTL | 83 |
| Andrei MARKOV, MTL | 81 |
| Antii LAAKSONEN, COL | 80 |
| Mike MODANO, DAL | 79 |
| Marian HOSSA, ATL | 75 |
| Ian LAPERRIERE, COL | 74 |
| Daniel ALFREDSSON, OTT | 74 |
| Jason BLAKE, NYI | 73 |
| Stu BARNES, DAL | 73 |
| Saku KOIVU, MTL | 73 |
| Andrei MARKOV, MTL | 31 |
| Rob BLAKE, COL | 31 |
| Tony AMONTE, CGY | 30 |
| Brendan MORRISON, VAN | 27 |
| Craig RIVET, MTL | 26 |
| Henrik ZETTERBERG, DET | 26 |
| Karlis SKRASTINS, COL | 26 |
| Shawn HORCOFF, EDM | 26 |