NHL Defensemen ‑ All-Time Playoff Assists Leaders

NHL Defensemen ‑ All-Time Playoff Assists Leaders.
		Overall								Time on Ice				Goals					Assists					Points						per 60 All Situations			per 60 Even-Strength			per 60 Power-Play			per Game			Shots		Defensive		Faceoffs
Rk	Name	Born	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-	TOI	ES	PP	SH	ESG	PPG	SHG	GWG	OTG	ESA	PPA	SHA	GWA	OTA	ESP	PPP	SHP	GWP	OTP	PPP%	G/60	A/60	P/60	ESG/60	ESA/60	ESP/60	PPG/60	PPA/60	PPP/60	G/GP	A/GP	P/GP	SHOTS	SH%	HITS	BS	FOW	FOL	FO%
1	Ray Bourque	1960	D	214	41	139	180	171	27					26	15	0	4	0	62	74	3	20	1	88	89	3	24	1	49.4%										0.192	0.650	0.841	814	5.0%			1	0	100.00%
2	Paul Coffey	1961	D	194	59	137	196	264	53					32	21	6	8	0	69	66	2	24	2	101	87	8	32	2	44.4%										0.304	0.706	1.010	616	9.6%			0	0	0.00%
3	Nicklas Lidström	1970	D	263	54	129	183	76	61					21	30	3	11	1	45	81	3	26	2	66	111	6	37	3	60.7%										0.205	0.490	0.696	656	8.2%	61	117	0	0	0.00%
4	Al MacInnis	1963	D	177	39	121	160	255	11					13	26	0	5	1	47	71	3	18	2	60	97	3	23	3	60.6%										0.220	0.684	0.904	663	5.9%			0	1	0.00%
5	Larry Robinson	1951	D	227	28	116	144	211	100					21	7	0	3	2	68	45	3	24	1	89	52	3	27	3	36.1%										0.123	0.511	0.634	417	6.7%
6	Larry Murphy	1961	D	215	37	115	152	201	32					14	20	3	7	0	64	47	4	20	4	78	67	7	27	4	44.1%										0.172	0.535	0.707	504	7.3%			1	0	100.00%
7	Chris Chelios	1962	D	266	31	113	144	423	48					14	14	3	6	2	62	46	5	19	3	76	60	8	25	5	41.7%										0.117	0.425	0.541	587	5.3%	49	55	0	0	0.00%
8	Denis Potvin	1953	D	185	56	109	165	253	64					26	28	2	7	2	51	53	5	17	1	77	81	7	24	3	49.1%										0.303	0.589	0.892	578	9.7%
9	Victor Hedman	1990	D	170	23	97	120	94	18	24:58	19:50	2:49	2:18	13	10	0	5	1	53	43	1	13	3	66	53	1	18	4	44.2%	0.325	1.371	1.696	0.231	0.943	1.174	1.252	5.385	6.637	0.135	0.571	0.706	425	5.4%	228	323	0	0	0.00%
10	Chris Pronger	1974	D	173	26	95	121	326	40					13	13	0	3	0	42	49	4	18	1	55	62	4	21	1	51.2%										0.150	0.549	0.699	405	6.4%	142	225	0	0	0.00%
11	Sergei Zubov	1970	D	164	24	93	117	62	28					10	13	1	1	0	43	48	2	22	4	53	61	3	23	4	52.1%										0.146	0.567	0.713	382	6.3%	22	27	0	0	0.00%
12	Scott Stevens	1964	D	233	26	92	118	402	44					14	12	0	8	0	57	31	4	21	2	71	43	4	29	2	36.4%										0.112	0.395	0.506	481	5.4%			0	0	0.00%
13	Brad Park	1948	D	161	35	90	125	217	24					21	13	1	6	1	52	36	2	11	1	73	49	3	17	2	39.2%										0.217	0.559	0.776	383	9.1%
14	Scott Niedermayer	1973	D	202	25	73	98	155	20					10	12	3	8	2	43	29	1	16	2	53	41	4	24	4	41.8%										0.124	0.361	0.485	411	6.1%	63	95	1	1	50.00%
15	Duncan Keith	1983	D	151	19	72	91	70	20	27:07	21:38	2:43	2:45	17	2	0	5	1	43	27	2	20	2	60	29	2	25	3	31.9%	0.278	1.055	1.333	0.312	0.790	1.102	0.291	3.926	4.217	0.126	0.477	0.603	323	5.9%	120	264	0	0	0.00%
16	Brian Rafalski	1973	D	165	29	71	100	66	42	23:20	18:18	4:00	1:01	12	17	0	6	1	38	31	2	13	1	50	48	2	19	2	48.0%	0.452	1.106	1.558	0.238	0.755	0.993	1.545	2.818	4.363	0.176	0.430	0.606	290	10.0%	69	105	0	1	0.00%
17	Brian Leetch	1968	D	95	28	69	97	36	2					15	12	1	6	0	30	38	1	11	3	45	50	2	17	3	51.5%										0.295	0.726	1.021	352	8.0%			0	0	0.00%
18	Sergei Gonchar	1974	D	141	22	68	90	102	3					9	12	1	7	0	23	43	2	9	3	32	55	3	16	3	61.1%										0.156	0.482	0.638	291	7.6%	81	133	0	0	0.00%
19	Sandis Ozolinsh	1972	D	137	23	67	90	131	-10					12	11	0	5	1	34	32	1	13	4	46	43	1	18	5	47.8%										0.168	0.489	0.657	298	7.7%	1	6	0	0	0.00%
20	Kristopher Letang	1987	D	149	23	67	90	142	0	24:24	19:12	3:46	1:24	14	9	0	5	1	39	26	2	11	1	53	35	2	16	2	38.9%	0.379	1.105	1.485	0.293	0.817	1.111	0.959	2.771	3.731	0.154	0.450	0.604	367	6.3%	290	241	0	0	0.00%
21	Bobby Orr	1948	D	74	26	66	92	107	60					15	8	3	7	1	35	24	7	13	0	50	32	10	20	1	34.8%										0.351	0.892	1.243	358	7.3%
22	Charlie Huddy	1959	D	183	19	66	85	134	98					13	5	1	1	0	49	13	4	10	2	62	18	5	11	2	21.2%										0.104	0.361	0.464	356	5.3%
23	Alex Pietrangelo	1990	D	149	15	65	80	95	26	25:50	21:00	2:25	2:25	14	1	0	2	0	47	18	0	10	2	61	19	0	12	2	23.8%	0.234	1.013	1.246	0.268	0.901	1.170	0.166	2.997	3.163	0.101	0.436	0.537	388	3.9%	155	367	0	0	0.00%
24	Dan Boyle	1976	D	130	17	64	81	70	-10	23:54	18:32	4:22	1:00	10	7	0	3	0	24	40	0	10	4	34	47	0	13	4	58.0%	0.328	1.235	1.563	0.249	0.598	0.847	0.739	4.224	4.963	0.131	0.492	0.623	292	5.8%	104	152	0	0	0.00%
25	Doug Harvey	1924	D	137	8	64	72	152	7					6	2	0	2	1	34	30	0	17	3	40	32	0	19	4	44.4%										0.058	0.467	0.526
26	Cale Makar	1998	D	79	22	63	85	20	23	24:42	19:41	3:33	1:27	12	9	1	5	1	37	25	1	12	3	49	34	2	17	4	40.0%	0.676	1.936	2.612	0.463	1.427	1.890	1.921	5.337	7.259	0.278	0.797	1.076	226	9.7%	100	122	0	0	0.00%
27	Evan Bouchard	1999	D	74	20	61	81	38	16	23:33	19:12	3:33	0:47	12	8	0	6	1	31	30	0	9	2	43	38	0	15	3	46.9%	0.688	2.099	2.788	0.506	1.308	1.815	1.819	6.821	8.640	0.270	0.824	1.095	209	9.6%	79	109	0	0	0.00%
28	Doug Wilson	1957	D	95	19	61	80	86	11					11	6	2	2	0	24	37	0	7	0	35	43	2	9	0	53.8%										0.200	0.642	0.842	310	6.1%
29	Steve Duchesne	1965	D	121	16	61	77	96	-14					7	9	0	1	0	24	37	0	9	4	31	46	0	10	4	59.7%										0.132	0.504	0.636	256	6.3%			0	0	0.00%
30	John Carlson	1990	D	137	21	57	78	56	-4	24:33	19:09	2:49	2:33	8	13	0	2	0	26	31	0	8	1	34	44	0	10	1	56.4%	0.375	1.017	1.391	0.183	0.594	0.777	2.011	4.795	6.806	0.153	0.416	0.569	374	5.6%	213	279	0	0	0.00%
31	Eric Desjardins	1969	D	168	23	57	80	93	16					16	7	0	5	2	24	28	5	10	2	40	35	5	15	4	43.8%										0.137	0.339	0.476	364	6.3%	1	13	0	1	0.00%
32	Gary Suter	1964	D	108	17	56	73	120	-4					8	7	2	3	0	22	32	2	5	0	30	39	4	8	0	53.4%										0.157	0.519	0.676	268	6.3%			0	0	0.00%
33	Shea Theodore	1995	D	125	17	56	73	46	16	21:09	18:10	2:45	0:13	11	6	0	2	0	38	18	0	13	2	49	24	0	15	2	32.9%	0.386	1.270	1.656	0.290	1.003	1.294	1.045	3.134	4.178	0.136	0.448	0.584	290	5.9%	41	183	0	0	0.00%
34	Brent Burns	1985	D	135	24	56	80	117	16	24:13	18:58	3:19	1:55	16	8	0	0	0	32	24	0	10	3	48	32	0	10	3	40.0%	0.440	1.028	1.468	0.375	0.749	1.124	1.070	3.209	4.278	0.178	0.415	0.593	406	5.9%	279	206	2	7	22.22%
35	Ryan McDonagh	1989	D	196	12	56	68	101	18	24:15	20:12	1:17	2:46	7	5	0	3	1	45	8	3	10	2	52	13	3	13	3	19.1%	0.151	0.707	0.858	0.106	0.682	0.788	1.193	1.908	3.101	0.061	0.286	0.347	297	4.0%	431	450	0	0	0.00%
36	Paul Reinhart	1960	D	83	23	54	77	42	-24					10	11	2	2	1	21	32	1	6	0	31	43	3	8	1	55.8%										0.277	0.651	0.928	183	12.6%
37	Pierre Pilote	1931	D	86	8	53	61	102	7					6	2	0	1	0	29	22	2	14	1	35	24	2	15	1	39.3%										0.093	0.616	0.709
38	Zdeno Chara	1977	D	200	18	52	70	218	49	25:24	19:49	2:06	3:28	12	6	0	4	0	37	15	0	11	3	49	21	0	15	3	30.0%	0.213	0.614	0.827	0.182	0.560	0.742	0.853	2.132	2.985	0.090	0.260	0.350	387	4.7%	493	268	2	0	100.00%
39	Mark Howe	1955	D	101	10	51	61	34	42					9	1	0	1	1	27	19	5	3	0	36	20	5	4	1	32.8%										0.099	0.505	0.604	212	4.7%
40	J.C. Tremblay	1939	D	108	14	51	65	58	37					9	3	2	5	0	28	23	0	9	1	37	26	2	14	1	40.0%										0.130	0.472	0.602	197	7.1%
41	Stefan Persson	1954	D	102	7	50	57	69	16					1	6	0	0	0	21	29	0	11	0	22	35	0	11	0	61.4%										0.069	0.490	0.559	139	5.0%
42	Brad Maxwell	1957	D	79	12	49	61	178	-19					6	6	0	0	0	23	25	1	4	1	29	31	1	4	1	50.8%										0.152	0.620	0.772	211	5.7%
43	Serge Savard	1946	D	130	19	49	68	90	47					12	4	3	6	1	33	15	1	11	3	45	19	4	17	4	27.9%										0.146	0.377	0.523	198	9.6%
44	Miro Heiskanen	1999	D	93	17	48	65	24	-2	26:20	22:23	2:42	1:15	10	7	0	1	0	27	21	0	6	1	37	28	0	7	1	43.1%	0.416	1.175	1.592	0.288	0.778	1.066	1.668	5.003	6.671	0.183	0.516	0.699	203	8.4%	123	158	0	0	0.00%
45	Kevin Lowe	1959	D	214	10	48	58	192	48					8	0	2	1	0	39	5	4	6	1	47	5	6	7	1	8.6%										0.047	0.224	0.271	186	5.4%			0	0	0.00%
46	Rob Blake	1969	D	146	26	47	73	166	0					16	9	1	1	0	26	21	0	12	2	42	30	1	13	2	41.1%										0.178	0.322	0.500	436	6.0%	55	83	0	1	0.00%
47	Gordie Roberts	1957	D	153	10	47	57	273	20					7	1	2	0	0	40	5	2	6	1	47	6	4	6	1	10.5%										0.065	0.307	0.373	159	6.3%
48	Darryl Sydor	1972	D	155	9	47	56	73	7					5	4	0	1	0	14	33	0	7	1	19	37	0	8	1	66.1%										0.058	0.303	0.361	265	3.4%	8	21	0	1	0.00%
49	Torey Krug	1991	D	82	11	46	57	48	-7	20:22	16:58	3:12	0:11	5	6	0	0	0	18	28	0	9	0	23	34	0	9	0	59.6%	0.395	1.652	2.047	0.216	0.776	0.992	1.370	6.394	7.764	0.134	0.561	0.695	200	5.5%	110	104	0	0	0.00%
50	Dave Ellett	1964	D	116	11	46	57	87	-25					2	9	0	1	1	22	24	0	5	2	24	33	0	6	3	57.9%										0.095	0.397	0.491	247	4.5%			0	0	0.00%

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