most assists by a player in regular season and playoffs single season 2012-13

Sidney Crosby made the most assists in the 2013 regular-season and playoffs, with 49 assists in 2012-13.

	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	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	49	2012-13	PIT	50	22	71	+23	24	5	19	0	0	1	0	183	12.0	625	1,178	53.1	25	25	27	42	21:40
2	Kris Letang K. Letang	46	2012-13	PIT	50	8	54	+18	16	3	19	0	0	2	0	144	5.6	0	0		73	85	24	52	26:14
3	Henrik Zetterberg H. Zetterberg	45	2012-13	DET	60	15	60	+5	26	5	21	2	0	6	1	231	6.5	325	673	48.3	33	16	38	34	20:24
4	Martin St. Louis M. St. Louis	43	2012-13	TBL	48	17	60	0	14	3	17	0	0	2	0	112	15.2	12	28	42.9	23	32	43	40	21:59
5	Nicklas Backstrom N. Backstrom	42	2012-13	WSH	55	9	51	+6	20	3	17	0	0	1	0	96	9.4	498	961	51.8	38	38	35	31	19:53
6	Patrick Kane P. Kane	42	2012-13	CHI	70	32	74	+18	16	8	10	0	0	5	1	226	14.2	3	16	18.8	14	16	49	30	20:21
7	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	41	2012-13	SJS	59	9	50	+11	28	3	24	0	0	1	0	110	8.2	531	913	58.2	32	28	52	57	18:44
8	Pavel Datsyuk P. Datsyuk	40	2012-13	DET	61	18	58	+23	18	8	10	0	3	6	2	146	12.3	669	1,212	55.2	48	37	72	42	20:22
9	David Krejci D. Krejci	40	2012-13	BOS	69	19	59	+14	34	1	9	0	0	7	1	149	12.8	510	984	51.8	80	44	37	42	19:42
10	Anze Kopitar A. Kopitar	38	2012-13	LAK	65	13	51	+12	28	1	19	0	0	2	0	130	10.0	647	1,223	52.9	117	42	40	41	20:42
11	Ryan Getzlaf R. Getzlaf	37	2012-13	ANA	51	18	55	+16	47	5	13	4	0	3	0	114	15.8	394	856	46.0	104	48	31	37	20:22
12	Mike Ribeiro M. Ribeiro	37	2012-13	WSH	55	14	51	-6	63	6	22	0	0	2	1	76	18.4	286	621	46.1	68	34	24	27	17:55
13	Henrik Sedin H. Sedin	37	2012-13	VAN	52	11	48	+19	28	1	14	1	0	1	0	75	14.7	481	979	49.1	29	9	24	21	19:27
14	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	36	2012-13	PIT	46	13	49	+3	62	4	20	0	0	4	0	166	7.8	274	582	47.1	19	18	36	30	19:57
15	Jonathan Toews J. Toews	36	2012-13	CHI	70	26	62	+37	45	3	7	2	1	5	0	213	12.2	827	1,438	57.5	48	32	76	19	20:04
16	Claude Giroux C. Giroux	35	2012-13	PHI	48	13	48	-7	22	6	15	1	0	2	0	137	9.5	644	1,182	54.5	57	29	17	30	21:10
17	Duncan Keith D. Keith	35	2012-13	CHI	69	5	40	+26	49	2	13	0	2	0	0	142	3.5	0	0		39	97	39	49	25:14
18	Chris Kunitz C. Kunitz	35	2012-13	PIT	63	27	62	+29	45	12	7	0	0	6	1	145	18.6	5	11	45.5	146	19	19	23	18:05
19	Eric Staal E. Staal	35	2012-13	CAR	48	18	53	+5	54	3	6	1	0	4	0	152	11.8	527	1,014	52.0	35	24	48	24	21:00
20	Taylor Hall T. Hall	34	2012-13	EDM	45	16	50	+5	33	4	10	0	0	4	0	154	10.4	29	53	54.7	24	20	31	29	18:37
21	Phil Kessel P. Kessel	34	2012-13	TOR	55	24	58	0	20	7	15	0	0	6	0	190	12.6	5	10	50.0	17	27	29	56	19:38
22	Milan Lucic M. Lucic	32	2012-13	BOS	68	14	46	+20	89	0	3	0	0	0	0	121	11.6	35	69	50.7	241	31	30	62	18:13
23	Daniel Sedin D. Sedin	31	2012-13	VAN	51	12	43	+10	32	3	11	0	0	3	0	149	8.1	3	8	37.5	19	7	17	21	19:09
24	Alexander Semin A. Semin	31	2012-13	CAR	44	13	44	+14	46	4	5	0	1	1	0	150	8.7	5	21	23.8	14	21	46	35	20:57
25	Sergei Gonchar S. Gonchar	30	2012-13	OTT	55	3	33	+1	40	2	13	0	1	3	1	101	3.0	0	0		30	77	10	33	23:59