Gordie Howe played the most seasons with 20+ assists, with 25 seasons.

Interpreted as:

most seasons by a player with at least 20 assists

	NAME	SEAS	A	GP	G	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Gordie Howe G. Howe	25	1,034	1,709	794	1,828	+160	1,633	211	353	24	12	121		3,803	10.1
2	Mark Messier M. Messier	24	1,177	1,715	687	1,864	+212	1,880	177	396	63	80	90	8	4,152	16.5	3,358	6,084	55.2	160	111	140	273	18:49
3	Ron Francis R. Francis	23	1,249	1,731	549	1,798	-18	977	188	539	12	19	79	4	3,756	14.6	3,205	5,757	55.7	119	199	203	153	19:41
4	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	22	1,130	1,666	749	1,879	+318	1,135	211	387	11	4	131	18	5,490	13.6	9	41	22.0	267	176	465	1,047	20:07
5	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	22	1,169	1,612	410	1,579	+527	1,141	173	588	16	28	60	5	6,209	6.6	0	1	0.0	277	203	143	135	26:38
6	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	21	1,085	1,581	417	1,502	+192	1,229	143	396	6	6	66	9	2,966	14.1	12,614	23,864	52.9	1,090	478	1,194	1,480	19:39
7	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	21	955	1,637	576	1,531	+2	1,033	200	369	18	14	91	6	3,809	15.1	880	1,815	48.5	898	288	342	518	18:53
8	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	21	1,057	1,498	690	1,747	+178	916	201	391	50	33	93	9	4,589	15.0	3,330	5,795	57.5	167	202	186	242	18:47
9	Alex Delvecchio A. Delvecchio	21	803	1,469	444	1,247	+37	347	108	255	15	16	73		3,120	10.1
10	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	20	1,062	1,352	625	1,687	+197	854	184	403	4	7	100	25	4,299	14.5	15,664	29,637	52.9	1,181	662	772	1,107	20:40
11	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	20	929	1,397	339	1,268	+372	1,496	166	554	10	23	44	3	5,139	6.6	2	2	100.0	151	260	127	242	26:39
12	Phil Housley P. Housley	20	879	1,469	331	1,210	-48	810	125	476	7	3	48	5	3,748	8.8	1	2	50.0	93	147	85	196	20:52
13	Larry Murphy L. Murphy	20	910	1,558	286	1,196	+203	1,072	114	426	9	18	35	3	3,523	8.1	1	1	100.0	38	92	23	81	21:50
14	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	20	1,963	1,487	894	2,857	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
15	Johnny Bucyk J. Bucyk	20	781	1,383	540	1,321	-6	432	152	279	4	0	88		3,039	16.3
16	Anze Kopitar A. Kopitar	19	838	1,454	440	1,278	+108	348	124	321	14	14	78	9	3,328	13.2	14,493	27,146	53.4	1,266	1,030	831	935	20:48
17	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	19	832	1,213	514	1,346	+28	1,202	183	325	4	1	86	14	3,810	13.5	6,000	13,370	44.9	713	523	1,029	1,176	19:34
18	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	19	862	1,521	254	1,116	+435	508	125	454	10	30	35	4	3,785	6.7	0	0		477	990	462	638	26:56
19	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	19	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
20	Brendan Shanahan B. Shanahan	19	671	1,425	643	1,314	+173	2,329	233	264	23	14	106	12	4,937	13.0	281	584	48.1	520	268	246	435	18:24
21	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	19	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
22	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	19	1,119	1,337	394	1,513	+311	1,744	134	522	20	31	43	1	4,274	9.2	0	0		18	70	21	84	22:35
23	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	19	902	1,309	531	1,433	+314	1,129	150	311	12	6	83		4,327	12.3
24	Norm Ullman N. Ullman	19	730	1,344	481	1,211	+7	684	116	171	8	13	58		3,426	12.3
25	Patrick Kane P. Kane	18	851	1,302	492	1,343	0	454	138	308	0	1	81	14	4,233	11.6	328	846	38.8	335	298	719	714	20:03