Connor McDavid and Macklin Celebrini are tied for the most assists this season, with 26 assists.

Interpreted as:

most primary assists by a player in NHL this regular season

	NAME	A	SEASON	TM	GP	G	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Connor McDavid C. McDavid	26	2025-26	EDM	28	14	40	-6	12	5	12	0	1	1	0	82	17.1	137	291	47.1	10	9	10	44	22:47
2	Macklin Celebrini M. Celebrini	26	2025-26	SJS	28	14	40	+4	16	4	11	0	0	3	2	77	18.2	206	433	47.6	14	17	13	41	20:13
3	Nathan MacKinnon N. MacKinnon	24	2025-26	COL	27	22	46	+32	12	6	5	0	0	2	0	120	18.3	267	550	48.5	19	18	8	45	21:29
4	Cale Makar C. Makar	24	2025-26	COL	27	9	33	+27	12	0	8	0	0	3	0	78	11.5	0	0		14	47	16	25	25:11
5	Adam Fox A. Fox	23	2025-26	NYR	27	3	26	+4	10	1	7	0	1	1	0	51	5.9	0	0		15	41	18	31	23:50
6	Mikko Rantanen M. Rantanen	23	2025-26	DAL	27	12	35	-3	59	4	14	0	0	1	0	74	16.2	17	35	48.6	22	15	6	27	20:17
7	Nick Suzuki N. Suzuki	23	2025-26	MTL	26	8	31	+11	4	5	10	0	0	0	0	53	15.1	238	457	52.1	23	23	6	18	20:28
8	Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	22	2025-26	TBL	25	12	34	+5	12	3	6	0	0	3	1	81	14.8	0	0		7	9	7	43	20:49
9	Troy Terry T. Terry	22	2025-26	ANA	27	7	29	+11	8	0	7	1	2	1	0	64	10.9	2	3	66.7	0	7	10	16	19:00
10	Leo Carlsson L. Carlsson	22	2025-26	ANA	27	14	36	+10	23	2	8	2	1	3	1	65	21.5	221	475	46.5	5	12	13	25	19:50
11	Jack Eichel J. Eichel	21	2025-26	VGK	26	11	32	+4	2	0	13	0	0	2	0	105	10.5	203	417	48.7	12	18	14	48	21:18
12	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	21	2025-26	PIT	26	8	29	+5	20	2	11	0	0	1	0	66	12.1	94	208	45.2	10	7	8	28	17:30
13	Artemi Panarin A. Panarin	21	2025-26	NYR	29	9	30	0	6	0	8	0	0	2	0	77	11.7	0	0		3	4	7	34	20:40
14	Jesper Bratt J. Bratt	21	2025-26	NJD	27	5	26	-4	8	1	8	1	0	2	1	63	7.9	0	0		28	8	15	26	18:45
15	William Nylander W. Nylander	21	2025-26	TOR	23	11	32	+7	12	2	3	0	0	2	2	49	22.4	14	37	37.8	3	10	9	25	19:52
16	Martin Necas M. Necas	21	2025-26	COL	27	14	35	+25	20	3	5	0	0	0	0	57	24.6	8	15	53.3	29	10	7	52	20:54
17	Evan Bouchard E. Bouchard	21	2025-26	EDM	28	4	25	+1	10	1	6	0	1	1	1	72	5.6	0	0		9	36	18	40	23:44
18	Lucas Raymond L. Raymond	21	2025-26	DET	26	10	31	+6	4	3	8	0	0	3	0	62	16.1	1	1	100.0	10	11	13	28	18:42
19	Matthew Knies M. Knies	21	2025-26	TOR	24	7	28	+3	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	55	12.7	0	0		61	11	7	21	20:18
20	Connor Bedard C. Bedard	21	2025-26	CHI	27	18	39	+9	28	5	7	0	0	3	0	95	18.9	134	270	49.6	7	14	13	35	21:14
21	Mark Scheifele M. Scheifele	20	2025-26	WPG	26	14	34	+8	16	3	3	0	1	2	0	58	24.1	205	425	48.2	7	8	4	42	20:12
22	Zach Werenski Z. Werenski	20	2025-26	CBJ	27	9	29	+11	2	1	7	0	1	0	0	100	9.0	0	0		17	39	15	52	26:36
23	Mitch Marner M. Marner	20	2025-26	VGK	26	5	25	+5	6	1	5	0	0	0	0	46	10.9	15	29	51.7	10	15	12	34	20:17
24	Miro Heiskanen M. Heiskanen	20	2025-26	DAL	28	4	24	+5	8	1	9	0	0	2	0	64	6.3	0	0		5	44	20	31	25:57
25	Quinn Hughes Q. Hughes	20	2025-26	VAN	22	2	22	-5	10	2	9	0	0	0	0	60	3.3	0	0		1	27	8	30	27:25