Wayne Gretzky made the most assists by a player in his first 3 seasons, with 315 assists.

Interpreted as:

most NHL assists by a player through 3 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	315	239	198	513	+135	75	46	99	11	6	21		915	21.6
2	Peter Stastny P. Stastny	240	232	132	372	+29	206	32	83	5	2	11		660	20.0
3	Denis Savard D. Savard	220	234	95	315	+53	228	25	81	0	0	11		602	15.8
4	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	203	215	145	348	-29	154	47	90	0	0	10	4	752	19.3
5	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	195	213	99	294	+27	209	35	100	0	3	13	3	701	14.1	1,940	3,963	49.0	171	126	108	166	20:32
6	Mike Rogers M. Rogers	191	240	122	313	+8	85	19	71	7	5	3		684	17.8
7	Nicklas Backstrom N. Backstrom	189	246	69	258	+66	120	28	76	0	0	9	2	549	12.6	1,642	3,381	48.6	176	142	203	164	19:48
8	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	189	242	115	304	+35	238	47	74	2	0	15	3	804	14.3	948	2,286	41.5	169	115	203	226	21:02
9	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	182	233	108	290	+107	101	35	61	4	0	17		546	19.8
10	Peter Forsberg P. Forsberg	179	194	73	252	+74	136	15	65	7	8	10	0	491	14.9
11	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	174	239	122	296	-38	151	35	61	0	4	9	1	892	13.7
12	Connor McDavid C. McDavid	169	209	87	256	+46	70	11	50	2	4	18	4	630	13.8	973	2,319	42.0	74	85	220	138	20:49
13	John Cullen J. Cullen	168	229	83	251	-44	351	31	66	0	1	7	0	523	15.9
14	Kent Nilsson K. Nilsson	164	201	115	279	-9	44	47	72	0	0	11		537	21.4
15	Bobby Smith B. Smith	164	219	86	250	+10	136	31	64	0	0	14		709	12.1
16	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	163	230	110	273	-102	75	30	70	4	2	11	1	627	17.5
17	Ron Francis R. Francis	162	210	79	241	-53	156	21	66	2	1	10	0	575	13.7
18	Sergei Makarov S. Makarov	159	226	76	235	+62	159	21	55	0	0	11	0	294	25.9
19	Gary Suter G. Suter	159	223	48	207	+40	335	19	88	1	3	7	0	551	8.7
20	Denis Potvin D. Potvin	159	234	69	228	+22	380	29	75	2	5	11		676	10.2
21	Mitch Marner M. Marner	157	241	67	224	+21	86	15	54	1	2	12	0	603	11.1	71	143	49.7	101	107	230	179	17:41
22	Jari Kurri J. Kurri	156	226	109	265	+114	94	25	31	2	5	9		631	17.3
23	Sergei Fedorov S. Fedorov	155	230	97	252	+70	210	31	54	9	9	13	2	725	13.4
24	Patrick Kane P. Kane	154	244	76	230	+9	114	29	63	0	1	14	1	706	10.8	38	79	48.1	52	33	123	95	18:44
25	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	153	229	92	245	-35	45	20	60	0	0	9		830	11.1