Evgeni Malkin made the most assists in 2008-09, with 78 assists.

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most assists by a player in NHL 2009

	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	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	78	2008-09	PIT	82	35	113	+17	80	14	27	2	0	4	2	290	12.1	283	668	42.4	80	39	94	81	22:31
2	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	70	2008-09	PIT	77	33	103	+3	76	7	33	0	1	3	1	238	13.9	829	1,615	51.3	80	42	56	80	21:57
3	Nicklas Backstrom N. Backstrom	66	2008-09	WSH	82	22	88	+16	46	14	28	0	0	1	0	174	12.6	570	1,171	48.7	52	46	77	62	19:57
4	Ryan Getzlaf R. Getzlaf	66	2008-09	ANA	81	25	91	+5	121	9	28	0	0	2	0	227	11.0	566	1,128	50.2	134	43	55	70	20:08
5	Pavel Datsyuk P. Datsyuk	65	2008-09	DET	81	32	97	+34	22	11	25	1	1	3	0	248	12.9	636	1,135	56.0	76	33	89	50	19:13
6	Marc Savard M. Savard	63	2008-09	BOS	82	25	88	+25	70	9	21	0	2	5	0	213	11.7	643	1,289	49.9	25	19	55	52	19:32
7	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	61	2008-09	SJS	82	25	86	+16	56	11	24	0	0	3	1	139	18.0	718	1,295	55.4	81	24	64	86	19:28
8	Henrik Sedin H. Sedin	60	2008-09	VAN	82	22	82	+22	48	4	22	0	0	8	2	143	15.4	677	1,364	49.6	18	16	42	62	19:31
9	Mike Ribeiro M. Ribeiro	56	2008-09	DAL	82	22	78	-4	52	7	16	0	0	1	0	163	13.5	564	1,240	45.5	117	28	67	78	20:57
10	Jarome Iginla J. Iginla	54	2008-09	CGY	82	35	89	-2	37	10	22	0	0	4	0	289	12.1	263	501	52.5	82	15	35	49	21:37
11	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	54	2008-09	WSH	79	56	110	+8	72	19	27	1	0	10	2	528	10.6	8	32	25.0	243	32	60	107	23:00
12	Ray Whitney R. Whitney	53	2008-09	CAR	82	24	77	+2	32	7	23	0	0	2	1	219	11.0	2	4	50.0	27	26	62	41	18:25
13	Andrei Markov A. Markov	52	2008-09	MTL	78	12	64	-2	36	7	32	0	1	3	0	165	7.3	0	0		61	111	60	103	24:38
14	David Krejci D. Krejci	51	2008-09	BOS	82	22	73	+37	26	5	14	2	2	6	1	146	15.1	527	1,048	50.3	77	46	38	23	16:52
15	Daniel Sedin D. Sedin	51	2008-09	VAN	82	31	82	+24	36	9	15	0	0	7	0	285	10.9	14	35	40.0	13	15	35	42	18:48
16	Todd White T. White	51	2008-09	ATL	82	22	73	-9	24	12	22	1	0	0	0	150	14.7	673	1,329	50.6	39	33	57	36	18:04
17	Daniel Alfredsson D. Alfredsson	50	2008-09	OTT	79	24	74	+7	24	8	20	1	3	3	0	204	11.8	4	17	23.5	57	33	72	56	20:53
18	Vyacheslav Kozlov V. Kozlov	50	2008-09	ATL	82	26	76	-14	44	12	31	0	0	3	0	165	15.8	3	8	37.5	37	17	41	53	17:14
19	Mike Richards M. Richards	50	2008-09	PHI	79	30	80	+22	63	8	25	7	2	4	2	238	12.6	813	1,660	49.0	147	90	83	94	21:44
20	Martin St. Louis M. St. Louis	50	2008-09	TBL	82	30	80	+4	14	7	18	2	1	3	1	262	11.5	14	30	46.7	17	48	74	68	21:17
21	J-P Dumont J. Dumont	49	2008-09	NSH	82	16	65	+1	20	5	17	0	0	4	0	176	9.1	3	6	50.0	33	13	39	66	17:30
22	Zach Parise Z. Parise	49	2008-09	NJD	82	45	94	+30	24	14	16	0	3	8	3	364	12.4	54	121	44.6	65	17	34	17	18:45
23	Brian Rafalski B. Rafalski	49	2008-09	DET	78	10	59	+17	20	5	23	0	0	1	0	141	7.1	0	0		33	64	17	51	23:10
24	Martin Havlat M. Havlat	48	2008-09	CHI	81	29	77	+29	30	5	9	0	0	5	2	249	11.6	2	8	25.0	19	12	30	16	17:25
25	Ilya Kovalchuk I. Kovalchuk	48	2008-09	ATL	79	43	91	-12	50	12	24	0	1	6	1	275	15.6	5	14	35.7	43	15	48	87	21:48