Wayne Gretzky has the most career assists per game in the regular-season and playoffs, with 1.31 per game.

NHL most assists per game by a player played career total include playoffs

	NAME	A/GP	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	1.31	1,695	1,016	2,223	3,239	+611	643	239	776	85	93	115	6	5,787	17.6
2	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	1.10	1,022	766	1,129	1,895	+134	921	265	514	56	23	85	11	4,035	19.0	1,581	3,225	49.0	62	51	90	145	22:51
3	Connor McDavid C. McDavid	1.02	808	405	827	1,232	+199	304	100	318	10	10	77	18	2,737	14.8	4,452	9,368	47.5	713	342	747	741	21:57
4	Ville Ottavainen V. Ottavainen	1.00	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0		3	1	0	0	14:24
5	Aku Raty A. Raty	1.00	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		2	0	0	0	11:45
6	Damien Giroux D. Giroux	1.00	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		2	5	40.0	2	1	0	0	13:57
7	Reilly Walsh R. Walsh	1.00	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	0	0		0	2	0	1	14:23
8	Chay Genoway C. Genoway	1.00	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0		0	1	2	1	18:16
9	Carl Sneep C. Sneep	1.00	1	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		2	1	0	0	16:19
10	Ivan Baranka I. Baranka	1.00	1	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0		1	1	0	0	12:44
11	Jeff Daw J. Daw	1.00	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	0	0		1	1	2	0	12:34
12	Jason Herter J. Herter	1.00	1	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0.0
13	Dan Ratushny D. Ratushny	1.00	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0
14	Bill Armstrong B. Armstrong	1.00	1	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0
15	Scott Harlow S. Harlow	1.00	1	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0
16	Risto Jalo R. Jalo	1.00	3	0	3	3	+2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0
17	Howard Scruton H. Scruton	1.00	4	0	4	4	-4	9	0	0	0	0	0		4	0.0
18	Paul Miller P. Miller	1.00	3	0	3	3	+2	0	0	0	0	0	0		0
19	David Salvian D. Salvian	1.00	1	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0
20	Murray Wing M. Wing	1.00	1	0	1	1	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0		0
21	Paul Hurley P. Hurley	1.00	1	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	0	0		5	0.0
22	Jim McBurney J. McBurney	1.00	1	0	1	1		0	0	0	0	0	0
23	Gord Byers G. Byers	1.00	1	0	1	1		0	0	1	0	0	0
24	Bill Kyle B. Kyle	1.00	3	0	3	3		0	0	0	0	0	0
25	Red Staley R. Staley	1.00	1	0	1	1		0	0	0	0	0	0