which defenseman had the most assists in 2009

Andrei Markov made the most assists by a defenseman in 2008-09, with 52 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	Andrei Markov A. Markov	52	2008-09	MTL	78	12	64	-2	36	7	32	0	1	3	0	165	7.3	0	0		61	111	60	103	24:38
2	Brian Rafalski B. Rafalski	49	2008-09	DET	78	10	59	+17	20	5	23	0	0	1	0	141	7.1	0	0		33	64	17	51	23:10
3	Brian Campbell B. Campbell	45	2008-09	CHI	82	7	52	+5	22	4	20	0	0	1	0	108	6.5	0	0		34	72	15	33	22:34
4	Niklas Kronwall N. Kronwall	45	2008-09	DET	80	6	51	+2	50	4	18	0	1	1	0	121	5.0	1	1	100.0	96	109	19	42	22:54
5	Scott Niedermayer S. Niedermayer	45	2008-09	ANA	82	14	59	-8	70	9	23	0	4	2	2	178	7.9	0	1	0.0	68	77	75	73	26:55
6	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	43	2008-09	DET	78	16	59	+31	30	10	23	0	1	4	1	180	8.9	0	0		43	67	26	46	24:49
7	Mike Green M. Green	42	2008-09	WSH	68	31	73	+24	68	18	20	1	0	4	0	243	12.8	0	0		86	110	49	95	25:46
8	Dan Boyle D. Boyle	41	2008-09	SJS	77	16	57	+6	52	8	24	0	1	4	1	213	7.5	0	1	0.0	51	95	36	63	24:46
9	Tom Gilbert T. Gilbert	40	2008-09	EDM	82	5	45	+6	26	2	14	0	1	1	0	107	4.7	0	0		47	136	40	70	21:58
10	Mark Streit M. Streit	40	2008-09	NYI	74	16	56	+5	62	10	19	1	1	1	0	150	10.7	0	0		114	113	51	68	25:13
11	Kimmo Timonen K. Timonen	40	2008-09	PHI	77	3	43	+19	54	2	26	0	1	0	0	104	2.9	0	2	0.0	65	164	30	48	24:31
12	Ryan Suter R. Suter	38	2008-09	NSH	82	7	45	-16	73	3	15	0	0	3	1	143	4.9	0	0		87	93	45	46	24:16
13	Filip Kuba F. Kuba	37	2008-09	OTT	71	3	40	+4	28	2	24	0	0	0	0	111	2.7	0	0		44	111	36	60	23:17
14	Chris Pronger C. Pronger	37	2008-09	ANA	82	11	48	0	88	4	24	0	1	2	1	196	5.6	2	7	28.6	78	122	36	44	26:56
15	Jaroslav Spacek J. Spacek	37	2008-09	BUF	80	8	45	+2	38	4	18	0	0	0	0	130	6.2	0	0		78	126	25	70	22:17
16	Dennis Wideman D. Wideman	37	2008-09	BOS	79	13	50	+32	34	6	19	1	0	2	1	169	7.7	0	0		67	135	23	63	24:39
17	Duncan Keith D. Keith	36	2008-09	CHI	77	8	44	+33	60	2	9	1	0	1	1	173	4.6	0	0		40	93	50	40	25:34
18	Dion Phaneuf D. Phaneuf	36	2008-09	CGY	80	11	47	-11	100	4	17	0	0	4	0	277	4.0	0	0		159	86	23	64	26:32
19	Rob Blake R. Blake	35	2008-09	SJS	73	10	45	+15	110	6	16	0	0	1	0	198	5.1	0	0		66	114	23	37	21:16
20	Cam Barker C. Barker	34	2008-09	CHI	68	6	40	-6	65	5	24	0	1	1	0	101	5.9	0	1	0.0	83	42	9	17	18:20
21	Christian Ehrhoff C. Ehrhoff	34	2008-09	SJS	77	8	42	-12	63	5	20	0	0	2	1	165	4.8	0	0		79	90	33	49	21:14
22	Kyle Quincey K. Quincey	34	2008-09	LAK	72	4	38	-5	63	2	25	0	1	2	0	150	2.7	0	0		116	75	17	53	20:59
23	Ron Hainsey R. Hainsey	33	2008-09	ATL	81	6	39	-16	32	4	14	0	0	0	0	148	4.1	0	0		60	127	42	45	22:22
24	Kevin Bieksa K. Bieksa	32	2008-09	VAN	72	11	43	-4	97	5	20	0	2	2	0	153	7.2	0	0		119	60	29	55	23:29
25	Denis Grebeshkov D. Grebeshkov	32	2008-09	EDM	72	7	39	+12	38	2	11	0	0	0	0	62	11.3	0	0		46	87	31	64	21:10