nhl assist leaders from october 2008 to february 21, 2009

Between October 1, 2008 and February 21, 2009, Evgeni Malkin made the most assists, with 59 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	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	59	60	27	86	+18	62	9	19	2	0	2	1	217	12.4	177	431	41.1	56	31	73	59	22:37
2	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	55	59	23	78	+5	65	3	24	0	1	2	1	177	13.0	627	1,234	50.8	63	26	47	59	22:16
3	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	53	57	15	68	+23	48	6	20	0	0	3	1	96	15.6	502	902	55.7	62	19	48	61	19:23
4	Pavel Datsyuk P. Datsyuk	49	59	25	74	+30	16	11	18	1	0	3	0	172	14.5	499	869	57.4	57	24	67	34	19:10
5	Ryan Getzlaf R. Getzlaf	49	60	20	69	+9	91	6	24	0	0	2	0	183	10.9	416	837	49.7	111	30	49	57	20:05
6	Nicklas Backstrom N. Backstrom	47	59	15	62	+14	32	9	20	0	0	1	0	126	11.9	382	835	45.7	36	30	59	46	19:34
7	Henrik Sedin H. Sedin	45	59	12	57	+11	36	3	18	0	0	4	0	103	11.7	488	977	49.9	15	14	33	42	19:54
8	Brian Rafalski B. Rafalski	42	60	8	50	+14	16	4	19	0	0	1	0	113	7.1	0	0		25	56	17	42	23:12
9	Marc Savard M. Savard	42	59	21	63	+23	54	7	11	0	2	2	0	159	13.2	462	933	49.5	19	15	40	42	19:40
10	Patrik Elias P. Elias	41	60	23	64	+13	28	7	15	2	2	5	1	195	11.8	19	65	29.2	42	12	19	27	18:46
11	Andrei Markov A. Markov	40	60	7	47	-4	30	3	26	0	1	3	0	126	5.6	0	0		46	84	43	70	24:25
12	Jarome Iginla J. Iginla	40	59	22	62	0	27	9	17	0	0	3	0	207	10.6	173	348	49.7	51	12	24	36	21:28
13	Mike Ribeiro M. Ribeiro	39	58	13	52	-6	28	5	13	0	0	1	0	116	11.2	399	860	46.4	78	21	44	58	20:36
14	David Krejci D. Krejci	39	59	20	59	+32	12	5	11	2	1	5	1	108	18.5	388	779	49.8	55	30	24	15	17:00
15	Mikko Koivu M. Koivu	38	57	16	54	+3	48	4	17	2	1	2	0	183	8.7	625	1,166	53.6	32	27	46	39	21:43
16	Mike Richards M. Richards	37	54	23	60	+23	44	4	18	7	2	3	2	160	14.4	579	1,154	50.2	106	62	49	62	21:43
17	Todd White T. White	36	60	15	51	-10	18	10	15	0	0	0	0	102	14.7	489	967	50.6	34	29	44	23	17:40
18	Daniel Alfredsson D. Alfredsson	36	56	17	53	+1	18	6	13	1	2	1	0	146	11.6	2	10	20.0	43	26	56	48	20:43
19	Zach Parise Z. Parise	35	60	35	70	+20	22	12	11	0	3	6	2	256	13.7	44	98	44.9	44	10	19	13	18:47
20	Derek Roy D. Roy	35	60	22	57	+5	24	7	16	0	0	8	1	161	13.7	572	1,130	50.6	34	28	38	70	21:47
21	Niklas Kronwall N. Kronwall	35	58	2	37	-2	36	1	15	0	0	1	0	82	2.4	1	1	100.0	70	83	13	31	23:16
22	Martin St. Louis M. St. Louis	35	59	20	55	+6	10	6	11	2	1	1	0	188	10.6	6	13	46.2	10	31	49	52	21:01
23	Daniel Sedin D. Sedin	34	59	25	59	+16	26	5	13	0	0	5	0	208	12.0	10	24	41.7	7	12	29	29	19:10
24	Patrick Kane P. Kane	33	55	19	52	+2	36	10	17	0	0	3	0	170	11.2	12	26	46.2	12	6	17	21	18:39
25	Ilya Kovalchuk I. Kovalchuk	33	60	30	63	-14	35	9	18	0	0	4	0	202	14.9	3	9	33.3	32	12	30	64	21:43