Ron Francis and Gordie Howe were tied for playing the most seasons with 27+ assists, with 23 seasons.

Interpreted as:

most 27 or more assists seasons by a player

	NAME	SEAS	A	GP	G	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Ron Francis R. Francis	23	1,249	1,731	549	1,798	-18	977	188	539	12	19	79	4	3,756	14.6	3,205	5,757	55.7	119	199	203	153	19:41
2	Gordie Howe G. Howe	23	983	1,589	767	1,750	+151	1,534	207	346	24	12	119		3,709	9.9
3	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	22	1,130	1,666	749	1,879	+318	1,135	211	387	11	4	131	18	5,490	13.6	9	41	22.0	267	176	465	1,047	20:07
4	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	22	1,169	1,612	410	1,579	+527	1,141	173	588	16	28	60	5	6,209	6.6	0	1	0.0	277	203	143	135	26:38
5	Mark Messier M. Messier	21	1,109	1,486	639	1,748	+220	1,688	167	382	59	78	81	8	3,818	16.7	1,999	3,563	56.1	128	73	103	195	20:07
6	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	20	930	1,556	558	1,488	-2	999	192	364	18	14	89	6	3,657	15.3	826	1,669	49.5	814	266	316	502	19:04
7	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	20	1,963	1,487	894	2,857	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
8	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	19	1,004	1,272	592	1,596	+217	823	172	388	4	7	90	21	4,072	14.5	14,648	27,855	52.6	1,114	623	743	1,021	20:41
9	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	19	1,006	1,363	623	1,629	+36	608	205	420	32	17	86	7	4,575	13.6	6,570	12,519	52.5	220	263	406	391	21:14
10	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	19	909	1,365	331	1,240	+353	1,453	164	544	10	22	44	3	5,029	6.6	2	2	100.0	151	260	127	242	26:39
11	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	19	1,011	1,390	664	1,675	+164	858	193	369	50	33	89	9	4,369	15.2	3,091	5,381	57.4	148	185	170	210	20:12
12	Larry Murphy L. Murphy	19	885	1,510	273	1,158	+191	1,054	110	419	9	15	32	2	3,399	8.0	1	1	100.0	38	92	23	81	21:50
13	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	19	902	1,309	531	1,433	+314	1,129	150	311	12	6	83		4,327	12.3
14	Anze Kopitar A. Kopitar	18	792	1,373	419	1,211	+94	344	120	303	14	13	71	9	3,230	13.0	13,614	25,609	53.2	1,235	963	801	870	20:54
15	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	18	1,013	1,383	381	1,394	+217	1,088	126	372	6	6	63	9	2,688	14.2	12,062	22,771	53.0	1,038	431	1,106	1,395	19:54
16	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	18	839	1,451	243	1,082	+414	480	121	441	10	30	35	4	3,637	6.7	0	0		436	911	435	615	27:11
17	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	18	922	1,368	429	1,351	+140	1,239	147	317	18	26	55	3	2,676	16.0	1,376	2,646	52.0	136	111	99	168	18:51
18	Johnny Bucyk J. Bucyk	18	738	1,264	501	1,239	+26	372	143	265	3	0	83		2,768	16.5
19	Norm Ullman N. Ullman	18	704	1,264	472	1,176	+19	676	115	167	8	13	58		3,309	12.4
20	Alex Delvecchio A. Delvecchio	18	730	1,286	388	1,118	+37	293	93	232	15	15	56		3,120	10.1
21	Patrick Kane P. Kane	17	813	1,230	471	1,284	+16	442	126	291	0	1	75	12	4,058	11.6	323	833	38.8	316	275	706	637	20:11
22	Mike Modano M. Modano	17	748	1,311	509	1,257	+108	854	140	308	28	17	83	8	3,838	13.3	6,392	12,337	51.8	154	256	592	857	20:46
23	Brendan Shanahan B. Shanahan	17	627	1,307	600	1,227	+168	2,158	216	251	21	12	97	10	4,519	13.3	275	576	47.7	473	221	214	402	18:23
24	Vincent Damphousse V. Damphousse	17	748	1,298	411	1,159	+15	1,164	126	276	17	19	77	5	3,369	12.2	3,262	6,424	50.8	161	115	157	323	19:18
25	Adam Oates A. Oates	17	1,052	1,239	330	1,382	+58	397	101	398	12	23	54	5	2,311	14.3	4,039	7,041	57.4	40	130	191	337	21:04