who has the most career nhl assists including playoffs

Wayne Gretzky has the most career assists in the regular-season and playoffs, with 2,223 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	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	2,223	1,695	1,016	3,239	+611	643	239	776	85	93	115	6	5,787	17.6
2	Mark Messier M. Messier	1,379	1,992	803	2,182	+263	2,156	203	470	77	86	106	8	4,892	16.4	3,780	6,871	55.0	195	138	161	310	18:47
3	Ron Francis R. Francis	1,346	1,902	595	1,941	+10	1,072	203	580	12	23	90	6	4,130	14.4	3,455	6,243	55.3	154	224	243	181	19:36
4	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	1,308	1,826	451	1,759	+554	1,312	188	662	16	31	64	5	7,023	6.4	1	2	50.0	349	262	188	171	27:03
5	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	1,278	1,941	844	2,122	+352	1,330	241	434	13	4	151	23	6,319	13.4	12	47	25.5	323	210	547	1,193	19:55
6	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	1,272	1,603	455	1,727	+351	2,066	156	595	26	33	51	1	5,005	9.1	0	0		33	89	23	97	21:50
7	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	1,211	1,901	462	1,673	+146	1,406	157	442	6	6	76	10	3,428	13.5	14,152	26,840	52.7	1,327	585	1,388	1,719	19:24
8	Adam Oates A. Oates	1,193	1,500	383	1,576	+21	481	120	455	14	25	63	6	2,704	14.2	5,010	8,657	57.9	52	164	240	409	20:00
9	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	1,178	1,710	762	1,940	+173	1,008	229	442	53	41	106	10	5,186	14.7	3,885	6,727	57.8	209	243	215	282	18:48
10	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	1,153	1,482	671	1,824	+228	923	195	448	4	7	102	24	4,703	14.3	17,190	32,683	52.6	1,327	725	884	1,209	20:43
11	Gordie Howe G. Howe	1,141	1,924	869	2,010	+165	1,905	226	394	28	12	132	0	4,104	10.1
12	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	1,129	1,022	766	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
13	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	1,120	1,550	709	1,829	+28	692	232	479	36	18	105	15	5,203	13.6	7,850	14,916	52.6	329	330	499	482	21:17
14	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	1,092	1,656	510	1,602	+156	1,536	173	388	20	35	69	6	3,201	15.9	1,780	3,445	51.7	170	145	124	201	18:18
15	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	1,064	1,397	752	1,816	+4	617	245	420	19	11	74	2	5,550	13.5
16	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	1,055	1,593	379	1,434	+382	1,766	192	627	10	26	49	4	5,820	6.5	2	3	66.7	204	317	143	280	26:50
17	Larry Murphy L. Murphy	1,044	1,830	325	1,369	+229	1,285	134	480	12	22	43	4	4,108	7.9	3	3	100.0	76	169	47	148	20:45
18	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	1,042	1,841	638	1,680	+9	1,126	222	401	18	15	102	7	4,230	15.1	954	1,965	48.5	1,150	334	398	617	18:49
19	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	1,017	1,551	600	1,617	+321	1,433	168	348	14	7	95	1	4,978	12.1
20	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	1,013	1,500	595	1,608	+480	1,189	179	303	23	24	81	2	3,313	18.0
21	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	1,007	1,827	318	1,325	+511	590	162	539	13	33	46	5	4,531	7.0	0	0		576	1,183	547	745	27:05
22	Denis Savard D. Savard	974	1,365	539	1,513	+120	1,590	151	401	22	15	62	1	3,629	14.9
23	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	960	1,285	548	1,508	-119	805	196	423	12	11	51	4	4,052	13.5
24	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	949	1,412	778	1,727	+277	1,048	268	330	23	15	130	1	5,701	13.6
25	Phil Housley P. Housley	937	1,580	351	1,288	-76	858	135	513	7	4	50	5	4,021	8.7	1	2	50.0	95	148	85	201	20:45