Gordie Howe has the most career assists by a 40-year-old player, with 60 assists.

Interpreted as:

most NHL assists by a player by 40 years old

	NAME	A	GP	G	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Gordie Howe G. Howe	60	77	44	104	+44	60	9	17	0	0	6	0	289	15.2
2	Teemu Selanne T. Selanne	49	73	31	80	+6	49	16	18	0	0	5	0	213	14.6	97	218	44.5	15	20	37	45	17:56
3	Alex Delvecchio A. Delvecchio	48	65	11	59	-12	4	4	18	0	0	2	0	95	11.6
4	Johnny Bucyk J. Bucyk	47	77	36	83	+22	20	13	20	0	0	9	0	151	23.8
5	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	46	82	16	62	-2	20	7	32	0	1	1	1	175	9.1	0	0		49	92	33	33	23:28
6	Igor Larionov I. Larionov	38	75	9	47	0	42	4	14	0	0	1	0	54	16.7	275	630	43.7	15	15	31	65	15:29
7	Dave Keon D. Keon	37	81	12	49	-32	22	2	7	0	0	1	0	133	9.0
8	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	36	79	16	52	-20	28	3	19	0	0	1	0	128	12.5	25	66	37.9	80	21	31	43	17:25
9	Adam Oates A. Oates	36	67	9	45	-1	16	4	16	0	0	2	0	67	13.4	615	1,064	57.8	2	1	15	25	18:38
10	Daniel Alfredsson D. Alfredsson	32	74	17	49	+7	39	4	14	0	1	2	0	156	10.9	18	45	40.0	54	42	52	52	18:45
11	Mark Messier M. Messier	32	73	15	47	-6	85	4	11	3	4	3	0	124	12.1	862	1,601	53.8	67	50	48	91	19:12
12	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	30	72	5	35	+19	140	1	4	1	1	2	1	121	4.1	0	0		48	26	21	31	24:57
13	Ron Francis R. Francis	29	82	13	42	-14	18	6	11	0	0	1	0	112	11.6	520	923	56.3	7	34	23	25	16:57
14	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	29	43	3	32	+13	28	1	16	1	0	0	0	113	2.7	0	0		71	57	35	39	25:22
15	Jean Ratelle J. Ratelle	26	47	11	37	+18	16	4	11	0	1	2	0	62	17.7
16	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	24	70	7	31	-19	34	3	5	0	0	1	0	76	9.2	323	654	49.4	20	29	55	30	15:30
17	Scott Mellanby S. Mellanby	24	69	12	36	-9	63	5	9	0	0	2	0	103	11.7	16	35	45.7	54	15	30	37	13:43
18	Gary Roberts G. Roberts	22	69	20	42	0	97	6	9	0	0	4	0	125	16.0	19	31	61.3	127	19	29	44	16:43
19	Shane Doan S. Doan	21	74	6	27	-3	48	3	2	0	0	0	0	144	4.2	94	199	47.2	101	22	26	34	15:03
20	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	20	61	14	34	+8	18	4	7	0	0	3	0	86	16.3	239	414	57.7	19	17	16	32	12:47
21	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	19	79	10	29	+25	66	1	1	1	1	3	0	153	6.5	0	0		157	135	44	77	23:09
22	Tim Horton T. Horton	19	78	3	22	+11	74	2	5	0	2	0	0	136	2.2
23	Ray Whitney R. Whitney	18	32	11	29	+1	4	4	8	0	0	1	0	62	17.7	16	51	31.4	10	14	29	41	19:24
24	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	18	82	21	39	-9	42	10	6	0	0	5	1	165	12.7	852	1,475	57.8	14	53	70	33	17:06
25	George Armstrong G. Armstrong	18	59	7	25	+7	6	0	3	0	4	1	0	93	7.5