which defenseman had the most assists in 2007

Sergei Gonchar and Scott Niedermayer were tied for the most assists by a defenseman in 2006-07, with 54 assists.

	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	Sergei Gonchar S. Gonchar	54	2006-07	PIT	82	13	67	-5	72	10	38	1	2	3	1	191	6.8	0	0		64	138	31	45	26:34
2	Scott Niedermayer S. Niedermayer	54	2006-07	ANA	79	15	69	+6	86	9	25	0	0	3	1	172	8.7	1	1	100.0	82	69	50	75	27:31
3	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	49	2006-07	DET	80	13	62	+40	46	10	23	0	3	1	0	224	5.8	0	0		24	95	40	83	27:29
4	Tomas Kaberle T. Kaberle	47	2006-07	TOR	74	11	58	+3	20	2	28	0	1	1	1	128	8.6	0	0		61	67	45	61	25:52
5	Brian Rafalski B. Rafalski	47	2006-07	NJD	82	8	55	+4	34	3	27	1	0	4	0	148	5.4	0	0		60	114	44	80	25:29
6	Chris Pronger C. Pronger	46	2006-07	ANA	66	13	59	+27	69	8	28	0	0	2	0	166	7.8	1	4	25.0	77	104	39	41	27:06
7	Ryan Whitney R. Whitney	45	2006-07	PIT	81	14	59	+9	77	9	24	0	1	2	0	129	10.9	1	5	20.0	38	118	13	58	23:56
8	Dan Boyle D. Boyle	43	2006-07	TBL	82	20	63	-5	62	10	27	1	0	4	1	203	9.9	0	1	0.0	103	118	57	88	27:03
9	Andrei Markov A. Markov	43	2006-07	MTL	77	6	49	+2	56	5	27	0	3	2	0	128	4.7	0	1	0.0	38	119	75	87	24:29
10	Brian Campbell B. Campbell	42	2006-07	BUF	82	6	48	+28	35	1	8	0	1	1	0	92	6.5	0	0		90	138	30	79	21:53
11	Bryan McCabe B. McCabe	42	2006-07	TOR	82	15	57	+3	115	11	23	0	0	1	1	207	7.2	0	0		141	140	16	104	26:50
12	Kimmo Timonen K. Timonen	42	2006-07	NSH	80	13	55	+20	42	8	18	0	1	2	1	121	10.7	0	1	0.0	54	115	20	36	21:51
13	Sergei Zubov S. Zubov	42	2006-07	DAL	78	12	54	0	26	9	31	0	0	3	0	156	7.7	1	1	100.0	39	67	40	92	25:57
14	Mathieu Schneider M. Schneider	41	2006-07	DET	68	11	52	+12	66	2	29	1	0	2	0	184	6.0	0	0		78	82	18	62	23:35
15	Lubomir Visnovsky L. Visnovsky	40	2006-07	LAK	69	18	58	+1	26	8	25	0	0	0	0	159	11.3	2	6	33.3	47	107	37	73	24:27
16	Joni Pitkanen J. Pitkanen	39	2006-07	PHI	77	4	43	-25	88	1	17	0	2	0	0	137	2.9	0	0		34	124	24	76	24:33
17	Tom Poti T. Poti	38	2006-07	NYI	78	6	44	-1	74	6	26	0	1	1	1	134	4.5	0	0		61	170	50	58	25:43
18	Sheldon Souray S. Souray	38	2006-07	MTL	81	26	64	-28	135	19	29	1	2	6	2	224	11.6	2	2	100.0	101	149	62	85	23:11
19	Dion Phaneuf D. Phaneuf	33	2006-07	CGY	79	17	50	+10	98	13	18	0	0	4	0	230	7.4	0	0		197	80	41	80	25:40
20	Marc-Andre Bergeron M. Bergeron	32	2006-07	TOT	78	14	46	-4	38	10	15	0	0	4	0	166	8.4	0	0		28	78	41	76	19:07
21	Philippe Boucher P. Boucher	32	2006-07	DAL	76	19	51	+2	104	12	19	0	1	4	0	222	8.6	0	1	0.0	159	183	21	60	22:54
22	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	32	2006-07	BOS	80	11	43	-21	100	9	17	0	1	3	1	204	5.4	0	1	0.0	203	134	33	94	27:58
23	Matt Carle M. Carle	31	2006-07	SJS	77	11	42	+9	30	8	18	0	0	1	0	111	9.9	0	1	0.0	34	71	16	64	18:08
24	Roman Hamrlik R. Hamrlik	31	2006-07	CGY	75	7	38	+22	88	1	17	0	1	1	0	125	5.6	0	0		92	125	49	72	24:52
25	Tom Preissing T. Preissing	31	2006-07	OTT	80	7	38	+40	18	3	15	0	0	0	0	94	7.4	0	0		20	52	12	32	15:15