Kris Letang made the most assists by a defenseman in 2012-13, with 33 assists.

	NAME	A	SEASON	TM	GP	G	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Kris Letang K. Letang	33	2012-13	PIT	35	5	38	+16	8	1	12	0	0	1	0	95	5.3	0	0		45	59	12	34	25:38
2	Ryan Suter R. Suter	28	2012-13	MIN	48	4	32	+2	24	3	12	0	0	1	0	91	4.4	0	0		33	74	9	19	27:17
3	P.K. Subban	27	2012-13	MTL	42	11	38	+12	57	7	19	0	0	0	0	126	8.7	0	0		51	49	10	42	23:15
4	Cody Franson C. Franson	25	2012-13	TOR	45	4	29	+4	8	3	10	0	0	0	0	70	5.7	0	0		124	59	21	40	18:47
5	Alex Goligoski A. Goligoski	24	2012-13	DAL	47	3	27	+4	18	0	11	0	1	0	0	80	3.8	0	0		56	66	5	38	22:23
6	Sergei Gonchar S. Gonchar	24	2012-13	OTT	45	3	27	+4	26	2	10	0	0	3	1	85	3.5	0	0		25	65	10	28	24:00
7	Duncan Keith D. Keith	24	2012-13	CHI	47	3	27	+16	31	2	8	0	1	0	0	91	3.3	0	0		19	66	26	29	24:07
8	Niklas Kronwall N. Kronwall	24	2012-13	DET	48	5	29	-5	44	2	14	0	0	2	0	67	7.5	0	0		42	83	11	21	24:22
9	Kimmo Timonen K. Timonen	24	2012-13	PHI	45	5	29	+3	36	3	14	0	0	1	0	78	6.4	0	0		31	79	13	21	21:46
10	Oliver Ekman-Larsson O. Ekman-Larsson	21	2012-13	PHX	48	3	24	+5	26	0	8	0	0	1	0	101	3.0	0	0		73	40	21	23	25:06
11	Mark Streit M. Streit	21	2012-13	NYI	48	6	27	-14	22	3	8	0	0	1	0	83	7.2	0	0		34	86	20	37	23:21
12	Dustin Byfuglien D. Byfuglien	20	2012-13	WPG	43	8	28	-1	34	4	6	0	0	2	2	142	5.6	0	0		80	47	26	50	24:24
13	Dan Hamhuis D. Hamhuis	20	2012-13	VAN	47	4	24	+9	12	0	6	1	0	0	0	61	6.6	0	0		47	63	20	31	23:23
14	Andrei Markov A. Markov	20	2012-13	MTL	48	10	30	-9	14	8	15	0	0	4	1	79	12.7	0	0		22	60	18	50	24:08
15	Keith Yandle K. Yandle	20	2012-13	PHX	48	10	30	+4	54	5	5	0	0	3	0	130	7.7	0	0		18	40	20	30	22:15
16	Brian Campbell B. Campbell	19	2012-13	FLA	48	8	27	-22	12	6	11	0	0	2	0	70	11.4	0	0		14	65	14	27	26:25
17	Dion Phaneuf D. Phaneuf	19	2012-13	TOR	48	9	28	-4	65	3	13	0	0	1	1	88	10.2	0	0		131	91	15	53	25:11
18	Alex Pietrangelo A. Pietrangelo	19	2012-13	STL	47	5	24	0	10	2	4	0	1	0	0	93	5.4	0	0		24	101	26	27	25:07
19	Justin Schultz J. Schultz	19	2012-13	EDM	48	8	27	-17	8	4	11	0	0	3	0	85	9.4	0	1	0.0	15	35	15	34	21:27
20	Slava Voynov S. Voynov	19	2012-13	LAK	48	6	25	+5	14	1	7	0	0	2	0	79	7.6	2	2	100.0	83	48	8	38	22:18
21	Shea Weber S. Weber	19	2012-13	NSH	48	9	28	-2	48	3	9	0	0	1	1	124	7.3	0	0		112	90	14	36	25:55
22	Francois Beauchemin F. Beauchemin	18	2012-13	ANA	48	6	24	+19	22	1	7	0	0	0	0	74	8.1	0	0		81	111	17	35	23:27
23	Michael Del Zotto M. Del Zotto	18	2012-13	NYR	46	3	21	+6	18	0	8	1	0	0	0	81	3.7	0	0		77	64	10	26	23:10
24	Kevin Shattenkirk K. Shattenkirk	18	2012-13	STL	48	5	23	+2	20	2	7	0	0	0	0	84	6.0	0	0		55	59	22	22	21:18
25	Fedor Tyutin F. Tyutin	18	2012-13	CBJ	48	4	22	+9	28	0	5	0	1	1	1	56	7.1	1	1	100.0	58	58	9	19	24:06