nhl assist leaders from october 2008 to january 29, 2009

Between October 1, 2008 and January 29, 2009, Evgeni Malkin had the most assists, with 52 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	52	49	19	71	+15	50	7	18	2	0	1	0	173	11.0	145	342	42.4	38	24	52	47	22:43
2	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	46	48	18	64	+5	61	3	21	0	1	1	1	147	12.2	502	1,009	49.8	50	23	32	49	22:12
3	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	44	47	12	56	+24	40	5	14	0	0	3	1	78	15.4	410	740	55.4	49	14	39	49	19:21
4	Ryan Getzlaf R. Getzlaf	41	50	17	58	+8	85	4	22	0	0	2	0	162	10.5	334	675	49.5	94	18	46	47	19:50
5	Marc Savard M. Savard	41	49	18	59	+26	50	7	11	0	2	1	0	128	14.1	394	792	49.7	17	13	31	31	19:37
6	Pavel Datsyuk P. Datsyuk	38	47	19	57	+21	14	8	14	1	0	2	0	138	13.8	454	793	57.3	45	18	59	27	19:12
7	Henrik Sedin H. Sedin	37	49	8	45	+5	30	2	15	0	0	2	0	80	10.0	409	811	50.4	13	13	27	37	19:57
8	Nicklas Backstrom N. Backstrom	36	49	12	48	+7	26	8	16	0	0	1	0	99	12.1	315	683	46.1	24	20	50	39	19:26
9	Jarome Iginla J. Iginla	36	47	19	55	+3	25	9	15	0	0	3	0	166	11.4	149	284	52.5	41	10	16	30	21:22
10	David Krejci D. Krejci	35	49	18	53	+25	12	5	11	1	1	4	1	91	19.8	332	660	50.3	44	24	21	10	17:06
11	Mikko Koivu M. Koivu	34	47	13	47	+7	40	3	16	1	0	2	0	152	8.6	527	971	54.3	25	23	37	36	21:55
12	Patrik Elias P. Elias	34	49	22	56	+14	24	6	12	2	1	5	1	161	13.7	15	52	28.8	31	12	18	21	18:44
13	Mike Richards M. Richards	31	47	16	47	+16	37	4	16	4	2	3	2	136	11.8	508	1,016	50.0	87	54	42	55	21:58
14	Andrei Markov A. Markov	31	48	7	38	+11	20	3	17	0	1	3	0	100	7.0	0	0		36	68	36	55	24:29
15	Mike Ribeiro M. Ribeiro	31	47	11	42	-6	18	4	10	0	0	1	0	91	12.1	322	698	46.1	52	18	34	48	20:49
16	Todd White T. White	30	50	14	44	-9	16	9	13	0	0	0	0	83	16.9	404	789	51.2	23	22	30	20	17:29
17	Daniel Alfredsson D. Alfredsson	30	45	12	42	-1	14	5	10	0	1	0	0	112	10.7	1	8	12.5	35	22	46	42	20:47
18	Martin St. Louis M. St. Louis	30	49	18	48	+9	4	5	10	2	1	1	0	145	12.4	2	7	28.6	10	25	38	43	21:01
19	Brian Gionta B. Gionta	29	48	11	40	+12	26	2	6	1	1	0	0	140	7.9	29	72	40.3	27	13	10	12	16:52
20	Ilya Kovalchuk I. Kovalchuk	29	50	21	50	-12	33	5	16	0	0	3	0	167	12.6	3	9	33.3	21	9	26	51	21:32
21	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	29	47	31	60	+13	58	10	14	1	0	6	2	314	9.9	2	12	16.7	155	19	36	58	23:20
22	Brad Richards B. Richards	29	46	12	41	-6	4	4	13	0	1	1	0	143	8.4	399	786	50.8	9	20	36	51	20:59
23	Mark Streit M. Streit	29	48	8	37	-2	40	7	15	1	1	0	0	93	8.6	0	0		75	76	32	46	25:17
24	Brian Rafalski B. Rafalski	29	48	7	36	+9	14	3	14	0	0	1	0	89	7.9	0	0		22	41	11	33	22:49
25	Shane Doan S. Doan	28	50	20	48	+6	52	7	7	0	2	2	0	133	15.0	104	226	46.0	131	22	37	19	20:43