Wayne Gretzky had the most assists by a player in his first season, with 86 assists.

Interpreted as:

most NHL assists by a player through 1 season

	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	86	79	51	137	+14	21	13	22	1	1	6		284	18.0
2	Peter Stastny P. Stastny	70	77	39	109	+10	37	11	22	2	0	4		232	16.8
3	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	63	81	39	102	-1	110	16	31	0	2	5	3	278	14.0	534	1,174	45.5	66	43	36	57	20:08
4	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	63	80	32	95	+27	21	11	30	1	0	5		178	18.0
5	Sergei Makarov S. Makarov	62	80	24	86	+33	55	6	21	0	0	4	0	118	20.3
6	Mike Rogers M. Rogers	61	80	44	105	+28	10	3	19	2	0	0		229	19.2
7	Larry Murphy L. Murphy	60	80	16	76	+16	79	5	27	1	3	0		153	10.5
8	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	58	80	45	103	-7	47	12	22	0	2	2		339	13.3
9	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	57	73	43	100	-33	54	11	22	0	0	2	1	209	20.6
10	Teemu Selanne T. Selanne	56	84	76	132	+8	45	24	25	0	0	7	0	387	19.6
11	Mark Howe M. Howe	56	74	24	80	+14	20	5	14	2	2	3		178	13.5
12	Nicklas Backstrom N. Backstrom	55	82	14	69	+13	24	3	22	0	0	4	1	153	9.2	405	874	46.3	34	34	72	50	19:00
13	Terry Ruskowski T. Ruskowski	55	74	15	70	+7	252	6	16	1	1	3		88	17.0
14	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	54	81	52	106	+2	52	21	31	3	0	5	2	425	12.2	2	16	12.5	172	20	69	88	21:37
15	Marian Stastny M. Stastny	54	74	35	89	-5	27	13	17	0	0	3		174	20.1
16	Kent Nilsson K. Nilsson	53	80	40	93	-3	10	14	22	0	0	3		217	18.4
17	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	52	78	33	85	+2	80	16	24	0	0	6	1	242	13.6	315	728	43.3	40	36	40	69	19:10
18	Patrick Kane P. Kane	51	82	21	72	-5	52	7	21	0	0	4	1	191	11.0	16	26	61.5	16	7	49	22	18:22
19	Scott Gomez S. Gomez	51	82	19	70	+14	78	7	20	0	0	1	0	204	9.3	152	341	44.6	49	12	67	64	16:21
20	Pelle Eklund P. Eklund	51	70	15	66	-2	12	8	38	0	0	5	0	141	10.6
21	Paul Stastny P. Stastny	50	82	28	78	+4	42	11	20	0	1	6	0	185	15.1	594	1,226	48.5	29	49	62	46	18:10
22	Gary Suter G. Suter	50	80	18	68	+11	141	9	30	0	1	4	0	195	9.2
23	Stefan Persson S. Persson	50	66	6	56	+19	54	3	32	0	0	0		77	7.8
24	Alexei Yashin A. Yashin	49	83	30	79	-49	22	11	16	2	1	3	0	232	12.9
25	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	49	80	11	60	+36	22	5	26	0	1	1	0	168	6.5