nhl player most assists by defense in all-time including playoffs

Ray Bourque has made the most career assists by a defenseman in the regular-season and playoffs, with 1,308 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	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	1,308	1,826	451	1,759	+554	1,312	188	662	16	31	64	5	7,023	6.4	1	2	50.0	349	262	188	171	27:03
2	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	1,272	1,603	455	1,727	+351	2,066	156	595	26	33	51	1	5,005	9.1	0	0		33	89	23	97	21:50
3	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	1,055	1,593	379	1,434	+382	1,766	192	627	10	26	49	4	5,820	6.5	2	3	66.7	204	317	143	280	26:50
4	Larry Murphy L. Murphy	1,044	1,830	325	1,369	+229	1,285	134	480	12	22	43	4	4,108	7.9	3	3	100.0	76	169	47	148	20:45
5	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	1,007	1,827	318	1,325	+511	590	162	539	13	33	46	5	4,531	7.0	0	0		576	1,183	547	745	27:05
6	Phil Housley P. Housley	937	1,580	351	1,288	-76	858	135	513	7	4	50	5	4,021	8.7	1	2	50.0	95	148	85	201	20:45
7	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	876	1,917	216	1,092	+399	3,314	83	384	16	44	37	3	4,214	5.1	1	5	20.0	678	754	343	635	20:51
8	Larry Robinson L. Robinson	866	1,611	236	1,102	+822	1,004	73	288	3	10	32	2	2,749	8.6
9	Brian Leetch B. Leetch	850	1,300	275	1,125	+27	607	123	469	9	15	44	7	3,992	6.9	0	1	0.0	426	683	316	445	26:32
10	Denis Potvin D. Potvin	850	1,245	366	1,216	+520	1,609	155	384	12	27	51	2	3,628	10.1
11	Scott Stevens S. Stevens	804	1,868	222	1,026	+439	3,187	87	261	5	22	42	3	3,719	6.0	0	0		843	723	415	379	23:43
12	Brad Park B. Park	773	1,274	248	1,021	+387	1,646	105	321	6	10	34	1	3,210	7.7
13	Victor Hedman V. Hedman	720	1,301	194	914	+211	866	45	293	1	14	34	9	2,847	6.8	1	3	33.3	1,399	2,069	633	1,101	23:38
14	Erik Karlsson E. Karlsson	715	1,151	208	923	-119	520	47	278	2	5	41	13	3,166	6.6	0	4	0.0	861	1,533	906	1,353	25:18
15	Sergei Zubov S. Zubov	712	1,232	176	888	+176	399	94	375	6	15	23	3	2,648	6.6	1	1	100.0	351	530	405	986	26:42
16	Bobby Orr B. Orr	711	731	296	1,007	+642	1,060	84	272	19	38	33	1	3,416	8.7
17	Gary Suter G. Suter	697	1,253	220	917	+122	1,469	97	420	10	17	21	1	3,359	6.5	1	2	50.0	397	256	43	178	21:16
18	Borje Salming B. Salming	674	1,229	162	836	+159	1,435	52	282	6	11	14	0	2,759	5.9
19	Kris Letang K. Letang	664	1,310	198	862	+85	947	65	255	6	12	39	12	3,313	6.0	1	5	20.0	2,291	1,996	698	1,279	24:13
20	Brent Burns B. Burns	661	1,448	256	917	+22	871	92	244	3	13	38	16	4,073	6.3	14	36	38.9	1,581	1,964	902	1,525	23:28
21	Sergei Gonchar S. Gonchar	659	1,442	242	901	+36	1,083	114	368	3	11	42	4	3,157	7.7	3	3	100.0	930	1,318	358	884	23:41
22	Doug Wilson D. Wilson	651	1,119	256	907	+66	916	91	332	11	7	24	2	3,607	7.1
23	Scott Niedermayer S. Niedermayer	641	1,465	197	838	+187	939	102	274	4	17	47	15	2,847	6.9	8	28	28.6	745	861	718	785	25:36
24	Chris Pronger C. Pronger	636	1,340	183	819	+223	1,916	96	340	2	20	30	5	3,015	6.1	7	23	30.4	1,061	1,715	469	766	27:28
25	John Carlson J. Carlson	627	1,225	177	804	+99	420	60	248	2	7	34	2	2,894	6.1	1	5	20.0	1,137	2,376	707	1,225	23:44