Pretty Grand Larceny

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.

Top 10 in Total Takeaways (The Swiper Award)

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

Top 5 in 3rd Period & OT Takeaways (The John Havlicek Trophy)

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