Wayne Gretzky has made the most career assists in the playoffs, with 260 assists.

Interpreted as:

most assists by a player in play off NHL

	NAME	A	GP	G	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	260	208	122	382	+91	66	35	90	12	17	24	4	699	17.5
2	Mark Messier M. Messier	186	236	109	295	+52	244	24	68	14	5	14	0	671	16.2
3	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	139	214	41	180	+27	171	15	74	0	3	4	0	814	5.0	1	1	100.0	72	59	45	36	28:57
4	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	137	194	59	196	+53	264	21	66	6	2	8	0	616	9.6
5	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	130	180	71	201	+18	83	20	55	0	0	9	1	542	13.1	2,127	4,116	51.7	185	87	133	158	20:56
6	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	129	263	54	183	+61	76	30	81	3	3	11	1	656	8.2	0	0		99	193	85	107	28:00
7	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	128	182	60	188	+27	235	20	53	2	9	13	3	367	16.3	224	437	51.3	30	23	21	23	17:59
8	Jari Kurri J. Kurri	127	200	106	233	+101	123	25	41	10	11	14	2	527	20.1
9	Sergei Fedorov S. Fedorov	124	183	52	176	+38	133	15	54	5	6	12	1	603	8.6	625	1,198	52.2	107	35	66	58	20:46
10	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	123	208	78	201	+30	163	24	41	2	0	16	4	682	11.4	3	5	60.0	42	16	52	106	20:18
11	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	121	177	39	160	+11	255	26	71	0	3	5	1	663	5.9	0	1	0.0	52	51	14	33	28:21
12	Glenn Anderson G. Anderson	121	225	93	214	+63	442	22	29	1	0	17	5	554	16.8
13	Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	118	152	53	171	+37	116	19	53	0	0	8	2	449	11.8	0	2	0.0	189	41	79	153	19:29
14	Larry Robinson L. Robinson	116	227	28	144	+100	211	7	45	0	3	3	2	417	6.7
15	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	115	196	70	185	-11	84	27	49	3	8	12	1	584	12.0	480	798	60.2	38	33	26	31	19:54
16	Larry Murphy L. Murphy	115	215	37	152	+32	201	20	47	3	4	7	0	504	7.3	1	1	100.0	10	17	7	19	21:33
17	Adam Oates A. Oates	114	163	42	156	-12	66	17	45	2	2	7	1	312	13.5	484	765	63.3	7	15	31	38	19:56
18	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	113	177	67	180	+6	242	28	53	1	1	13	2	608	11.0	816	1,753	46.5	200	93	136	181	19:51
19	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	113	266	31	144	+48	423	14	46	3	5	6	2	587	5.3	0	0		109	139	57	85	20:24
20	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	112	221	71	183	+31	277	18	41	4	4	12	1	472	15.0
21	Denis Savard D. Savard	109	169	66	175	+17	254	24	40	2	2	6	0	487	13.6
22	Denis Potvin D. Potvin	108	185	56	164	+64	253	28	52	2	5	7	2	578	9.7
23	Peter Forsberg P. Forsberg	107	151	64	171	+54	163	16	38	2	1	14	3	353	18.1	271	575	47.1	166	16	108	95	19:42
24	Connor McDavid C. McDavid	106	96	44	150	+31	28	13	41	2	1	5	2	330	13.3	517	1,126	45.9	180	62	84	89	23:38
25	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	104	172	84	188	-2	78	27	53	4	1	19	8	582	14.4	1,163	2,181	53.3	102	62	80	77	22:00