All-time/Assists

NHL All-time Assists

Best all-time APG: Wayne Gretzky (1.32)
Updated: Sept 6, 2021
Top 100 - Still Active *

Rank	Players	GP	Assists	APG	NAT
1	Wayne Gretzky	1487	1963	1.32	CAN
2	Ron Francis	1731	1249	0.72	CAN
3	Mark Messier	1756	1193	0.68	CAN
4	Ray Bourque	1612	1169	0.73	CAN
5	Jaromir Jagr	1733	1155	0.67	CZH
6	Paul Coffey	1409	1135	0.81	CAN
7	Joe Thornton *	1680	1104	0.66	CAN
8	Adam Oates	1337	1079	0.81	CAN
9	Steve Yzerman	1514	1063	0.70	CAN
10	Gordie Howe	1767	1049	0.59	CAN
11	Marcel Dionne	1348	1040	0.77	CAN
12	Mario Lemieux	915	1033	1.13	CAN
13	Joe Sakic	1378	1016	0.74	CAN
14	Doug Gilmour	1474	964	0.65	CAN
15	Mark Recchi	1652	956	0.58	CAN
16	Al Macinnis	1416	934	0.66	CAN
17	Larry Murphy	1615	929	0.58	CAN
18	Stan Mikita	1394	926	0.66	CAN
19	Bryan Trottier	1279	901	0.70	CAN
20	Philip Housley	1495	894	0.60	USA
21	Dale Hawerchuk	1188	891	0.75	CAN
22	Nicklas Lidstrom	1564	878	0.56	SWE
23	Phil Esposito	1282	873	0.68	CAN
24	Denis Savard	1196	865	0.72	CAN
25	Bobby Clarke	1144	852	0.74	CAN
26	Sidney Crosby *	1039	839	0.81	CAN
27	Henrik Sedin	1330	830	0.62	SWE
28	Alex Delvecchio	1549	825	0.53	CAN
29	Gilbert Perreault	1191	814	0.68	CAN
30	Mike Modano	1499	813	0.54	USA
31	John Bucyk	1540	813	0.53	CAN
32	Pierre Turgeon	1294	812	0.63	CAN
33	Jari Kurri	1251	797	0.64	FIN
34	Guy Lafleur	1126	793	0.70	CAN
35	Peter Stastny	977	789	0.81	SLO
36	Mats Sundin	1346	785	0.58	SWE
37	Brian Leetch	1205	781	0.65	USA
38	Jean Ratelle	1281	776	0.61	CAN
39	Vincent Damphousse	1378	773	0.56	CAN
40	Teemu Selanne	1451	773	0.53	FIN
41	Chris Chelios	1651	763	0.46	USA
42	Bernie Federko	1000	761	0.76	CAN
43	Doug Weight	1238	755	0.61	USA
44	Larry Robinson	1384	750	0.54	CAN
45	Denis Potvin	1060	742	0.70	CAN
46	Norm Ullman	1410	739	0.52	CAN
47	Bernie Nicholls	1127	734	0.65	CAN
48	Rod Brind'Amour	1484	732	0.49	CAN
49	Luc Robitaille	1431	726	0.51	CAN
50	Nicklas Backstrom *	1011	722	0.71	SWE
51	Daniel Alfredsson	1246	713	0.57	SWE
52	Jean Beliveau	1125	712	0.63	CAN
53	Scott Stevens	1635	712	0.44	CAN
54	Jeremy Roenick	1363	703	0.52	USA
55	Ryan Getzlaf *	1101	703	0.64	CAN
56	Brendan Shanahan	1524	698	0.46	CAN
57	Dave Andreychuk	1639	698	0.43	CAN
58	Dale Hunter	1407	697	0.50	CAN
59	Sergei Fedorov	1248	696	0.56	RUS
60	Henri Richard	1256	688	0.55	CAN
61	Patrick Kane *	1029	684	0.66	USA
62	Brad Park	1113	683	0.61	CAN
63	Evgeni Malkin *	940	680	0.72	RUS
64	Bobby Smith	1077	679	0.63	CAN
65	Ray Whitney	1330	679	0.51	CAN
66	Jarome Iginla	1554	675	0.43	CAN
67	Anze Kipitar *	1129	654	0.58	RUS
68	Brett Hull	1269	650	0.51	CAN
69	Daniel Sedin	1306	648	0.50	SWE
70	Bobby Orr	657	645	0.98	CAN
71	Martin St. Louis	1134	642	0.57	CAN
72	Gary Suter	1145	641	0.56	USA
73	Dave Taylor	1111	638	0.57	CAN
74	Darryl Sittler	1096	637	0.58	CAN
75	Borje Salming	1148	637	0.55	SWE
76	Peter Forsberg	708	636	0.90	SWE
77	Neal Broten	1099	634	0.58	USA
78	Brad Richards	1126	634	0.56	CAN
79	Theo Fleury	1084	633	0.58	CAN
80	Patrick Marleau *	1779	631	0.35	CAN
81	Mike Gartner	1432	627	0.44	CAN
82	Andy Bathgate	1069	624	0.58	CAN
83	Henrik Zetterberg	1082	623	0.58	SWE
84	Sergei Zubov	1068	619	0.58	RUS
85	Jason Spezza *	1117	619	0.55	CAN
86	Rod Gilbert	1065	615	0.58	CAN
87	Patrick Elias	1240	615	0.50	CZH
88	Marion Hossa	1309	609	0.47	SLO
89	Michel Goulet	1089	605	0.56	CAN
90	Pavel Datsyuk	953	604	0.63	RUS
91	Kirk Muller	1349	602	0.45	CAN
92	Glenn Anderson	1129	601	0.53	CAN
93	Alex Kovalev	1316	599	0.46	RUS
94	Eric Staal *	1293	593	0.46	CAN
95	Dino Ciccarelli	1232	592	0.48	CAN
96	Sergei Gonchar	1301	591	0.45	RUS
97	David Keon	1296	590	0.46	CAN
98	Doug Wilson	1024	590	0.58	CAN
99	Alex Ovechkin *	1197	590	0.49	RUS
100	Paul Kariya	989	587	0.59	CAN

APG: Assists Per Game | NAT: Nationality

Most Assists in One Season

Best APG (one season): Wayne Gretzky (2.04)
Top 10

Rank	Player	GP	Assists	APG	Year
1	Wayne Gretzky	80	163	2.04	1985-86
2	Wayne Gretzky	80	135	1.69	1984-85
3	Wayne Gretzky	80	125	1.56	1982-83
4	Wayne Gretzky	78	122	1.56	1990-91
5	Wayne Gretzky	79	121	1.53	1986-87
6	Wayne Gretzky	80	120	1.50	1981-82
7	Wayne Gretzky	74	118	1.60	1983-84
8	Wayne Gretzky	78	114	1.46	1988-89
9	Mario Lemieux	76	114	1.50	1988-89
10	Wayne Gretzky	64	109	1.70	1987-88
11	Wayne Gretzky	80	109	1.36	1980-81

APG: Assists Per Game

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