which defenseman had the most assists in 2019

Brent Burns made the most assists by a defenseman in 2018-19, with 67 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	Brent Burns B. Burns	67	2018-19	SJS	82	16	83	+13	34	7	21	1	4	6	2	300	5.3	0	1	0.0	90	105	88	118	25:06
2	John Carlson J. Carlson	57	2018-19	WSH	80	13	70	+21	34	3	30	0	0	1	0	185	7.0	0	0		54	164	55	87	25:04
3	Mark Giordano M. Giordano	57	2018-19	CGY	78	17	74	+39	69	3	18	4	2	2	0	221	7.7	0	0		58	144	73	65	24:14
4	Keith Yandle K. Yandle	53	2018-19	FLA	82	9	62	-17	50	7	32	0	0	2	0	199	4.5	0	0		47	76	27	110	22:27
5	Morgan Rielly M. Rielly	52	2018-19	TOR	82	20	72	+24	14	3	18	0	0	5	2	223	9.0	0	1	0.0	61	114	60	94	23:07
6	Torey Krug T. Krug	47	2018-19	BOS	64	6	53	-2	33	2	28	0	0	2	1	151	4.0	0	0		53	60	20	52	21:18
7	Tyson Barrie T. Barrie	45	2018-19	COL	78	14	59	-3	36	2	23	0	0	2	0	218	6.4	0	0		48	93	28	41	21:47
8	Erik Gustafsson E. Gustafsson	43	2018-19	CHI	79	17	60	-6	34	4	14	0	0	3	2	160	10.6	0	0		100	115	34	77	22:35
9	Victor Hedman V. Hedman	42	2018-19	TBL	70	12	54	+24	44	2	23	0	1	4	2	182	6.6	0	1	0.0	59	97	32	50	22:46
10	Erik Karlsson E. Karlsson	42	2018-19	SJS	53	3	45	+6	22	2	18	0	0	1	0	169	1.8	0	1	0.0	44	69	59	63	24:29
11	Jacob Trouba J. Trouba	42	2018-19	WPG	82	8	50	+8	58	3	15	1	2	1	1	162	4.9	0	0		112	171	48	86	22:53
12	Thomas Chabot T. Chabot	41	2018-19	OTT	70	14	55	-12	32	1	15	1	0	2	1	185	7.6	0	0		71	112	31	72	24:17
13	Roman Josi R. Josi	41	2018-19	NSH	82	15	56	+9	42	2	10	0	1	4	0	274	5.5	0	1	0.0	53	144	36	65	25:10
14	Kris Letang K. Letang	40	2018-19	PIT	65	16	56	+13	48	2	17	1	1	3	1	206	7.8	0	0		116	111	63	76	25:58
15	Ryan Suter R. Suter	40	2018-19	MIN	82	7	47	-8	41	3	12	1	1	2	0	136	5.1	1	1	100.0	78	109	25	30	26:42
16	Rasmus Ristolainen R. Ristolainen	38	2018-19	BUF	78	5	43	-41	38	1	16	0	0	2	1	182	2.7	0	0		235	121	23	44	24:38
17	Drew Doughty D. Doughty	37	2018-19	LAK	82	8	45	-34	44	7	17	0	1	1	1	154	5.2	0	0		168	120	23	105	26:36
18	Seth Jones S. Jones	37	2018-19	CBJ	75	9	46	+1	28	0	10	0	3	4	3	184	4.9	0	0		106	133	59	69	25:49
19	Ryan McDonagh R. McDonagh	37	2018-19	TBL	82	9	46	+38	34	0	3	0	3	1	0	128	7.0	0	0		98	161	46	66	22:05
20	Mattias Ekholm M. Ekholm	36	2018-19	NSH	80	8	44	+27	47	2	5	0	2	3	1	146	5.5	0	0		68	107	32	69	23:22
21	John Klingberg J. Klingberg	35	2018-19	DAL	64	10	45	+6	12	5	15	0	0	5	0	153	6.5	0	0		42	77	26	79	24:32
22	Rasmus Dahlin R. Dahlin	35	2018-19	BUF	82	9	44	-13	34	5	15	0	0	4	0	177	5.1	0	0		97	66	38	79	21:09
23	Ryan Ellis R. Ellis	34	2018-19	NSH	82	7	41	+21	20	1	4	1	0	2	0	149	4.7	0	0		71	154	54	61	24:01
24	Duncan Keith D. Keith	34	2018-19	CHI	82	6	40	+13	70	0	3	0	1	1	1	141	4.3	0	0		42	144	33	73	23:01
25	Jeff Petry J. Petry	33	2018-19	MTL	82	13	46	-5	28	3	8	0	1	4	2	172	7.6	0	1	0.0	190	123	39	129	23:07