Paul Coffey played the most seasons by a defenseman with 66+ assists, with 8 seasons.

most 66 or more assist seasons by NHL defenceman

	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	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	8	628	630	249	877	+185	903	78	277	13	20	22	1	2,272	11.0
2	Bobby Orr B. Orr	6	520	447	214	734	+480	604	61	196	14	26	23		2,208	9.7
3	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	4	282	299	84	366	+133	222	33	132	5	7	8	0	1,376	6.1
4	Brian Leetch B. Leetch	3	222	242	53	275	+39	98	23	118	1	1	10	1	727	7.3
5	Quinn Hughes Q. Hughes	2	144	160	24	168	+53	72	7	65	0	1	2	1	353	6.8	0	0		58	126	99	97	25:10
6	Erik Karlsson E. Karlsson	2	142	164	41	183	-28	86	6	47	0	0	7	4	457	9.0	0	2	0.0	117	265	142	197	27:18
7	Denis Potvin D. Potvin	2	137	151	62	199	+83	158	30	66	3	3	6		493	12.6
8	Cale Makar C. Makar	1	69	77	21	90	+15	16	7	32	1	3	1	0	231	9.1	0	0		36	148	70	42	24:46
9	Roman Josi R. Josi	1	73	80	23	96	+13	46	11	26	0	0	2	0	281	8.2	0	0		66	133	48	71	25:33
10	Brent Burns B. Burns	1	67	82	16	83	+13	34	7	21	1	4	6	2	300	5.3	0	1	0.0	90	105	88	118	25:06
11	Sergei Zubov S. Zubov	1	77	78	12	89	+20	39	9	40	0	1	1	0	222	5.4
12	Phil Housley P. Housley	1	79	80	18	97	-14	52	6	50	0	0	2	0	249	7.2
13	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	1	75	78	28	103	+42	90	17	46	0	3	1	0	305	9.2
14	Gary Suter G. Suter	1	70	75	21	91	+39	124	6	37	1	2	3	0	204	10.3
15	Randy Carlyle R. Carlyle	1	67	76	16	83	-16	136	7	39	1	1	1		242	6.6
16	Larry Robinson L. Robinson	1	66	77	19	85	+120	45	3	15	0	0	3		196	9.7
17	Borje Salming B. Salming	1	66	76	12	78	+45	46	1	21	0	3	0		186	6.5