highest assists between 1999-00 to 2009-10 for a defenseman

Between the 1999-00 and 2009-10 seasons, Nicklas Lidstrom had the most assists by a defenseman, with 487 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	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	487	800	136	623	+254	302	73	252	6	13	22	3	2,103	6.5	0	0		387	819	402	582	27:34
2	Sergei Gonchar S. Gonchar	408	700	146	554	+33	601	70	243	1	6	20	3	1,788	8.2	2	2	100.0	578	733	263	599	24:54
3	Brian Rafalski B. Rafalski	392	770	75	467	+167	260	39	178	1	2	16	3	1,427	5.3	2	5	40.0	518	757	377	648	23:09
4	Tomas Kaberle T. Kaberle	384	763	76	460	+24	218	31	205	1	9	13	6	1,167	6.5	5	11	45.5	502	942	257	722	24:21
5	Chris Pronger C. Pronger	373	675	102	475	+143	823	58	216	1	11	22	5	1,605	6.4	7	23	30.4	751	1,244	371	604	27:37
6	Scott Niedermayer S. Niedermayer	354	737	109	463	+83	512	55	155	0	11	30	12	1,440	7.6	7	26	26.9	565	674	566	617	25:25
7	Kimmo Timonen K. Timonen	323	762	92	415	+15	472	51	201	4	7	12	1	1,353	6.8	5	11	45.5	592	1,008	253	424	23:05
8	Sergei Zubov S. Zubov	320	607	78	398	+59	194	49	176	2	6	12	2	1,258	6.2	1	1	100.0	298	467	344	835	26:30
9	Rob Blake R. Blake	317	739	137	454	+41	809	81	143	3	8	21	1	2,330	5.9	5	14	35.7	1,229	1,382	452	653	24:54
10	Dan Boyle D. Boyle	295	654	104	399	-30	454	47	156	1	1	20	4	1,287	8.1	1	10	10.0	594	701	333	487	23:26
11	Bryan McCabe B. McCabe	292	753	112	404	+50	1,048	63	152	0	7	21	6	1,595	7.0	1	6	16.7	1,448	1,059	122	701	24:50
12	Wade Redden W. Redden	285	760	84	369	+137	532	45	125	1	5	17	2	1,445	5.8	2	3	66.7	973	929	256	661	23:19
13	Andrei Markov A. Markov	283	616	80	363	+29	357	41	152	2	9	12	1	1,030	7.8	2	7	28.6	356	759	434	648	22:29
14	Mathieu Schneider M. Schneider	280	661	118	398	+81	613	54	157	3	3	18	3	1,574	7.5	1	8	12.5	1,003	975	319	475	22:44
15	Ed Jovanovski E. Jovanovski	276	685	97	373	-44	789	47	125	1	10	18	4	1,565	6.2	0	2	0.0	1,060	826	310	618	23:33
16	Roman Hamrlik R. Hamrlik	265	739	82	347	+50	693	26	123	3	15	14	4	1,500	5.5	1	2	50.0	962	1,293	355	600	24:17
17	Lubomir Visnovsky L. Visnovsky	262	622	93	355	+7	264	41	139	0	1	13	1	1,080	8.6	4	15	26.7	450	769	257	594	21:16
18	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	245	763	109	354	+90	1,164	57	96	4	17	18	3	1,669	6.5	12	31	38.7	2,264	972	322	665	25:04
19	Derek Morris D. Morris	242	716	64	306	-27	670	29	122	3	4	18	4	1,454	4.4	2	5	40.0	790	916	227	380	22:29
20	Brian Campbell B. Campbell	236	561	49	285	+25	161	18	93	0	2	10	1	760	6.4	0	2	0.0	335	521	143	338	20:33
21	Jaroslav Spacek J. Spacek	236	712	73	309	+19	537	32	116	2	7	10	5	1,136	6.4	0	1	0.0	777	895	230	504	22:02
22	Tom Poti T. Poti	235	714	62	297	+40	534	27	107	1	6	16	4	1,139	5.4	1	4	25.0	369	1,062	387	582	23:10
23	Pavel Kubina P. Kubina	231	744	93	324	-68	885	50	100	4	5	24	6	1,468	6.3	1	8	12.5	937	1,129	332	476	22:29
24	Kim Johnsson K. Johnsson	217	739	67	284	+27	406	31	88	0	4	7	0	1,172	5.7	0	0		469	1,056	333	476	22:53
25	Filip Kuba F. Kuba	213	650	61	274	-40	295	26	96	5	5	12	2	990	6.2	0	9	0.0	416	893	280	549	23:13