most assists by a player in regular season and playoffs single season 2016-17

Connor McDavid made the most assists in the 2017 regular-season and playoffs, with 74 assists in 2016-17.

	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	Connor McDavid C. McDavid	74	2016-17	EDM	95	35	109	+30	28	4	27	2	1	6	1	288	12.2	387	915	42.3	49	38	87	64	21:18
2	Nicklas Backstrom N. Backstrom	70	2016-17	WSH	95	29	99	+17	40	9	31	0	0	6	2	188	15.4	820	1,616	50.7	60	40	76	65	18:36
3	Erik Karlsson E. Karlsson	70	2016-17	OTT	96	19	89	+23	38	4	26	0	2	7	1	271	7.0	0	0		88	236	75	131	27:06
4	Ryan Getzlaf R. Getzlaf	69	2016-17	ANA	91	23	92	+14	57	9	15	2	1	4	0	191	12.0	652	1,281	50.9	141	108	75	78	21:39
5	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	64	2016-17	PIT	99	52	116	+21	34	18	16	0	0	5	1	318	16.4	1,118	2,309	48.4	107	34	55	85	19:46
6	Phil Kessel P. Kessel	62	2016-17	PIT	107	31	93	+15	22	13	28	0	1	6	1	297	10.4	5	20	25.0	20	19	23	58	17:51
7	Leon Draisaitl L. Draisaitl	58	2016-17	EDM	95	35	93	+15	39	11	22	0	0	6	3	194	18.0	555	1,142	48.6	62	42	83	98	18:58
8	Ryan Johansen R. Johansen	57	2016-17	NSH	96	17	74	+13	72	4	20	1	0	4	0	169	10.1	968	1,776	54.5	100	32	48	65	19:07
9	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	57	2016-17	PIT	87	43	100	+27	130	12	22	0	1	6	1	251	17.1	516	1,168	44.2	71	44	70	85	18:28
10	Victor Hedman V. Hedman	56	2016-17	TBL	79	16	72	+3	47	4	29	0	0	5	2	166	9.6	0	0		93	132	39	73	24:31
11	Patrick Kane P. Kane	56	2016-17	CHI	86	35	91	+8	34	8	17	0	0	5	1	315	11.1	8	53	15.1	30	15	52	43	21:31
12	Henrik Zetterberg H. Zetterberg	51	2016-17	DET	82	17	68	+15	22	2	11	0	0	0	0	195	8.7	705	1,362	51.8	58	30	38	37	19:43
13	Brent Burns B. Burns	50	2016-17	SJS	88	29	79	+18	46	8	20	0	1	6	3	348	8.3	0	0		79	154	59	167	24:53
14	Mark Scheifele M. Scheifele	50	2016-17	WPG	79	32	82	+18	38	7	8	0	2	5	2	160	20.0	635	1,461	43.5	49	34	67	42	20:34
15	Brad Marchand B. Marchand	49	2016-17	BOS	86	40	89	+19	87	9	16	3	2	9	1	244	16.4	13	36	36.1	56	40	73	90	19:43
16	Duncan Keith D. Keith	48	2016-17	CHI	84	6	54	+16	18	2	14	0	0	2	1	189	3.2	0	0		29	111	33	77	25:37
17	Justin Schultz J. Schultz	48	2016-17	PIT	99	16	64	+30	38	6	21	0	0	3	0	180	8.9	0	0		83	143	29	47	20:18
18	Kevin Shattenkirk K. Shattenkirk	48	2016-17	TOT	93	14	62	-11	53	9	22	0	0	3	1	197	7.1	0	0		108	117	41	52	19:44
19	Blake Wheeler B. Wheeler	48	2016-17	WPG	82	26	74	+6	47	5	16	2	1	4	0	259	10.0	43	94	45.7	100	51	39	44	20:09
20	Alex Wennberg A. Wennberg	47	2016-17	CBJ	85	13	60	+6	23	2	21	0	0	5	0	119	10.9	644	1,367	47.1	62	56	48	31	18:26
21	Mats Zuccarello M. Zuccarello	47	2016-17	NYR	92	19	66	+15	42	6	10	0	0	4	0	214	8.9	6	14	42.9	116	62	80	68	19:03
22	Tyler Seguin T. Seguin	46	2016-17	DAL	82	26	72	-15	22	11	18	0	0	4	1	301	8.6	401	786	51.0	60	26	37	39	18:28
23	Johnny Gaudreau J. Gaudreau	45	2016-17	CGY	76	18	63	-11	4	4	14	0	0	3	1	190	9.5	0	0		9	15	46	94	18:34
24	Mikael Granlund M. Granlund	45	2016-17	MIN	86	26	71	+23	14	7	14	3	1	4	1	187	13.9	16	33	48.5	56	51	47	33	18:55
25	Roman Josi R. Josi	45	2016-17	NSH	94	18	63	+9	30	9	14	0	1	2	0	293	6.1	0	0		78	163	24	66	25:14