Wayne Gretzky made the most assists by a player in his first 19 seasons, with 1,910 assists.

Interpreted as:

most NHL assists by a player through 19 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	1,910	1,417	885	2,795	+543	563	201	659	73	76	88	2	4,956	17.9
2	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	1,102	1,322	385	1,487	+310	1,732	129	512	20	31	40	1	4,206	9.2
3	Ron Francis R. Francis	1,087	1,407	472	1,559	+24	883	152	457	11	18	67	2	3,214	14.7	835	1,566	53.3	48	53	45	36	21:58
4	Adam Oates A. Oates	1,079	1,337	341	1,420	+33	415	103	410	12	23	56	5	2,392	14.3	4,526	7,892	57.3	45	149	209	371	20:00
5	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	1,040	1,348	731	1,771	+27	600	234	409	19	11	73	2	5,363	13.6
6	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	1,036	1,372	375	1,411	+511	1,033	150	502	14	27	57	5	5,471	6.9
7	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	1,033	915	690	1,723	+114	834	236	465	49	22	74	11	3,633	19.0	1,414	2,865	49.4	52	45	70	122	22:40
8	Mark Messier M. Messier	1,015	1,354	597	1,612	+263	1,656	146	336	55	70	74	6	3,572	16.7
9	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	1,007	1,446	384	1,391	+206	1,156	130	369	6	6	61	9	2,759	13.9	11,706	22,096	53.0	1,021	417	1,063	1,353	20:09
10	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	1,007	1,391	681	1,688	+278	959	195	362	11	4	118	17	4,881	14.0	7	36	19.4	194	143	337	882	21:03
11	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	1,006	1,363	623	1,629	+36	608	205	420	32	17	86	7	4,575	13.6	6,570	12,519	52.5	220	263	406	391	21:14
12	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	1,004	1,272	592	1,596	+217	823	172	388	4	7	90	21	4,072	14.5	14,648	27,855	52.6	1,114	623	743	1,021	20:41
13	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	1,004	1,362	658	1,662	+160	852	190	373	50	32	87	9	4,362	15.1	2,464	4,247	58.0	135	150	122	159	21:17
14	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	945	1,412	439	1,384	+135	1,265	150	329	18	26	56	3	2,749	16.0	1,376	2,646	52.0	136	111	99	168	18:51
15	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	901	1,279	524	1,425	+449	912	161	262	19	20	69	1	2,841	18.4
16	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	891	1,188	518	1,409	-98	740	182	386	12	11	49	4	3,754	13.8
17	Larry Murphy L. Murphy	880	1,477	276	1,156	+199	1,027	107	417	9	18	35	3	3,377	8.2
18	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	873	1,282	717	1,590	+252	910	246	303	23	12	118		5,166	13.9
19	Denis Savard D. Savard	865	1,196	473	1,338	+103	1,336	127	361	20	13	56	1	3,142	15.1
20	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	859	1,410	522	1,381	+1	942	180	332	18	13	80	4	3,407	15.3	750	1,516	49.5	629	214	267	439	19:45
21	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	855	1,494	253	1,108	+429	486	128	445	10	30	35	4	3,727	6.8	0	0		436	911	435	615	27:11
22	Bobby Clarke B. Clarke	852	1,144	358	1,210	+507	1,453	99	234	32	35	38	1	2,582	13.9
23	Phil Housley P. Housley	847	1,357	317	1,164	-56	762	119	460	7	3	41	4	3,453	9.2	0	1	0.0	48	90	65	144	20:59
24	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	844	1,238	502	1,346	+307	1,183	140	290	12	6	81		4,106	12.2
25	Henrik Sedin H. Sedin	830	1,330	240	1,070	+165	680	61	308	7	2	38	6	1,856	12.9	9,887	20,256	48.8	383	267	499	658	17:30