Wayne Gretzky made the most assists by a player in his first 15 seasons, with 1,655 assists.

Interpreted as:

most NHL assists by a player through 15 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	1,655	1,125	803	2,458	+575	467	180	550	72	72	78	2	4,132	19.4
2	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	1,010	879	682	1,692	+132	812	233	449	49	22	74	11	3,535	19.3	1,076	2,235	48.1	41	38	57	90	23:20
3	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	978	1,078	358	1,336	+284	1,546	123	449	18	31	34	1	3,668	9.8
4	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	934	1,163	665	1,599	+64	466	198	356	19	11	67	2	4,832	13.8
5	Adam Oates A. Oates	894	1,049	303	1,197	+47	335	90	322	12	21	48	4	2,119	14.3	1,235	2,176	56.8	19	45	49	121	22:20
6	Ron Francis R. Francis	881	1,085	376	1,257	-3	791	120	376	10	17	54	2	2,559	14.7
7	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	877	1,100	311	1,188	+486	857	115	423	11	20	47	5	4,377	7.1
8	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	869	1,137	506	1,375	-107	708	176	381	12	11	47	4	3,652	13.9
9	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	853	1,123	500	1,353	+467	798	158	257	17	18	69	1	2,626	19.0
10	Bobby Clarke B. Clarke	852	1,144	358	1,210	+507	1,453	99	234	32	35	38	1	2,582	13.9
11	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	846	1,098	563	1,409	+109	740	152	316	45	27	65	5	3,638	15.5
12	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	841	1,109	591	1,432	+241	771	167	289	11	4	102	14	4,023	14.7	5	25	20.0	117	93	202	616	22:05
13	Mark Messier M. Messier	838	1,081	478	1,316	+224	1,348	114	268	44	59	56	5	2,839	16.8
14	Denis Savard D. Savard	812	1,063	451	1,263	+93	1,174	123	347	20	13	53	1	2,950	15.3
15	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	806	1,074	509	1,315	+17	440	161	331	31	17	72	5	3,677	13.8	3,775	7,191	52.5	142	151	214	167	22:24
16	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	801	984	462	1,263	+175	673	140	318	3	7	64	16	3,172	14.6	11,144	21,425	52.0	848	474	526	789	20:51
17	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	795	1,125	381	1,176	+164	1,028	124	285	17	26	47	1	2,357	16.2
18	Peter Stastny P. Stastny	789	977	450	1,239	-15	824	145	321	7	7	54	2	2,374	19.0
19	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	787	1,125	331	1,118	+158	989	115	295	6	5	52	8	2,304	14.4	9,761	18,552	52.6	828	296	794	994	20:42
20	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	780	1,081	634	1,414	+282	780	216	273	23	12	106		4,615	13.7
21	Gilbert Perreault G. Perreault	768	1,099	482	1,250	+53	466	128	287	7	4	77	0	2,878	16.7
22	Bernie Federko B. Federko	761	1,000	369	1,130	-131	487	120	305	2	0	40	0	2,074	17.8
23	Jari Kurri J. Kurri	758	1,099	583	1,341	+311	521	150	231	39	41	69	7	2,979	19.6
24	Guy Lafleur G. Lafleur	755	1,028	536	1,291	+471	393	145	249	3	2	96	0	3,326	16.1
25	Patrick Kane P. Kane	750	1,107	430	1,180	+43	410	120	260	0	1	67	9	3,684	11.7	322	831	38.7	289	243	661	546	20:19