who has the most assists in the nhl since 2000

Since 1999-00, Joe Thornton has made the most assists, with 1,080 assists.

	NAME	A	GP	G	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	1,080	1,578	411	1,491	+185	1,184	139	393	6	6	66	9	2,906	14.1	12,730	24,107	52.8	1,142	498	1,225	1,527	19:18
2	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	1,070	1,366	634	1,704	+199	876	188	404	4	7	101	25	4,328	14.6	15,811	29,916	52.9	1,195	669	778	1,122	20:39
3	Patrick Kane P. Kane	854	1,307	494	1,348	-2	454	139	310	0	1	82	14	4,242	11.6	328	846	38.8	337	299	719	721	20:03
4	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	848	1,227	517	1,365	+33	1,214	184	332	4	1	86	14	3,846	13.4	6,050	13,482	44.9	720	526	1,034	1,191	19:32
5	Anze Kopitar A. Kopitar	844	1,463	440	1,284	+113	350	124	324	14	14	78	9	3,342	13.2	14,582	27,314	53.4	1,276	1,042	835	948	20:47
6	Henrik Sedin H. Sedin	830	1,330	240	1,070	+165	680	61	308	7	2	38	6	1,856	12.9	9,887	20,256	48.8	383	267	499	658	17:30
7	Nicklas Backstrom N. Backstrom	762	1,105	271	1,033	+83	504	86	335	2	0	39	9	2,264	12.0	8,912	17,776	50.1	771	652	759	615	19:23
8	Claude Giroux C. Giroux	757	1,276	367	1,124	+18	500	100	314	9	12	58	13	3,205	11.5	11,753	20,847	56.4	1,105	505	650	670	19:27
9	Connor McDavid C. McDavid	737	726	364	1,101	+165	280	88	285	8	10	72	16	2,449	14.9	4,005	8,399	47.7	535	282	667	671	21:46
10	Ryan Getzlaf R. Getzlaf	737	1,157	282	1,019	+102	960	86	255	8	6	57	11	2,559	11.0	8,672	17,591	49.3	1,980	1,006	732	1,086	19:29
11	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	731	1,503	899	1,630	+60	833	326	279	5	1	137	27	6,891	13.0	65	191	34.0	3,764	563	785	1,202	20:36
12	Erik Karlsson E. Karlsson	680	1,098	201	881	-116	490	44	263	2	5	38	12	3,000	6.7	0	4	0.0	780	1,442	859	1,307	25:12
13	Nathan MacKinnon N. MacKinnon	657	883	377	1,034	+183	397	106	225	2	2	70	14	3,547	10.6	5,683	12,239	46.4	610	483	461	666	20:33
14	Brent Burns B. Burns	654	1,510	262	916	+10	867	88	235	3	14	43	16	4,085	6.4	81	178	45.5	1,560	1,859	910	1,491	22:21
15	Daniel Sedin D. Sedin	648	1,306	393	1,041	+147	546	138	230	0	4	86	16	3,474	11.3	179	462	38.7	339	214	418	485	17:00
16	Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	643	813	361	1,004	+152	388	97	270	0	0	58	8	2,510	14.4	10	22	45.5	448	266	458	783	19:01
17	Martin St. Louis M. St. Louis	641	1,121	390	1,031	+39	300	101	215	29	17	66	10	2,870	13.6	352	854	41.2	420	605	810	799	20:30
18	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	638	1,071	421	1,059	+159	666	131	226	3	1	72	11	3,333	12.6	9	42	21.4	281	194	495	1,087	19:53
19	Brad Richards B. Richards	634	1,126	298	932	-66	251	95	282	8	6	41	2	3,451	8.6	7,436	15,216	48.9	307	452	582	816	19:55
20	Victor Hedman V. Hedman	632	1,143	171	803	+194	772	35	254	1	13	29	8	2,443	7.0	1	3	33.3	1,177	1,772	558	947	23:26
21	Jason Spezza J. Spezza	632	1,248	363	995	+5	604	117	249	3	2	55	3	2,866	12.7	9,635	18,104	53.2	314	363	701	1,062	16:28
22	John Tavares J. Tavares	630	1,197	500	1,130	-20	521	156	216	3	3	83	19	3,784	13.2	11,431	21,212	53.9	902	512	856	1,065	19:17
23	Henrik Zetterberg H. Zetterberg	623	1,082	337	960	+160	401	100	235	9	9	64	7	3,455	9.8	7,111	14,004	50.8	536	352	630	652	19:35
24	Blake Wheeler B. Wheeler	622	1,172	321	943	+67	764	59	196	14	10	49	5	2,955	10.9	808	1,766	45.8	1,353	723	552	523	18:11
25	Patrice Bergeron P. Bergeron	613	1,294	427	1,040	+289	496	131	195	22	26	81	9	3,974	10.7	15,182	26,206	57.9	1,032	879	845	469	18:41