most nhl assists in first 785 regular season games

Wayne Gretzky made the most assists in his first 785 games, with 1,214 assists.

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most NHL assists by a player in first 785 regular season games

	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	1,214	785	643	1,857	+564	349	138	360	60	64	67	2	3,127	20.6
2	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	916	785	646	1,562	+155	755	215	403	49	22	69	10	3,214	20.1	407	790	51.5	28	20	28	47	24:18
3	Connor McDavid C. McDavid	801	785	402	1,203	+179	310	98	313	9	10	76	17	2,670	15.1	4,316	9,036	47.8	569	308	690	776	21:51
4	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	716	785	303	1,019	+227	1,167	102	305	17	27	28	1	2,644	11.5
5	Adam Oates A. Oates	703	785	247	950	+24	253	77	256	9	11	37	2	1,744	14.2
6	Peter Stastny P. Stastny	701	785	395	1,096	-13	721	125	283	6	7	46	1	2,031	19.4
7	Denis Savard D. Savard	688	785	365	1,053	+89	875	100	295	17	10	43	1	2,344	15.6
8	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	658	785	392	1,050	+457	579	118	185	16	13	60	1	1,893	20.7
9	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	649	785	383	1,032	+162	584	116	260	3	5	51	10	2,603	14.7	8,647	16,841	51.3	663	380	406	622	20:53
10	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	629	785	445	1,074	+62	280	128	237	16	5	48	0	3,290	13.5
11	Guy Lafleur G. Lafleur	627	785	454	1,081	+479	334	122	200	3	2	86	0	2,739	16.6
12	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	625	785	459	1,084	+46	488	116	230	41	19	52	4	2,749	16.7
13	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	619	785	419	1,038	+201	583	102	203	9	3	74	9	2,836	14.8	2	10	20.0	40	31	61	200	23:17
14	Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	617	785	348	965	+150	380	93	261	0	0	56	7	2,421	14.4	10	22	45.5	444	256	444	740	18:58
15	Bernie Federko B. Federko	609	785	310	919	-92	357	99	232	2	0	32	0	1,736	17.9
16	Bobby Clarke B. Clarke	609	785	272	881	+369	915	83	176	26	20	28	0	1,914	14.2
17	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	603	785	227	830	+379	624	80	279	7	13	34	3	2,960	7.7
18	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	600	785	407	1,007	-91	506	133	237	11	10	30	4	2,661	15.3
19	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	598	785	372	970	-80	340	119	260	26	13	50	1	2,637	14.1
20	Denis Potvin D. Potvin	598	785	241	839	+374	1,002	96	267	9	21	35	0	2,363	10.2
21	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	597	785	206	803	+230	946	101	370	3	12	20	1	2,818	7.3
22	Ron Francis R. Francis	591	785	282	873	-61	579	86	241	7	2	42	1	1,854	15.2
23	Artemi Panarin A. Panarin	590	785	313	903	+146	230	75	198	0	1	49	10	2,145	14.6	12	58	20.7	228	146	423	684	19:43
24	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	589	785	481	1,070	+357	588	143	195	18	9	88	0	3,470	13.9
25	Jari Kurri J. Kurri	582	785	486	1,068	+364	352	113	150	31	35	62	7	2,240	21.7

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Kings	35	27	20	90	-22
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