who has the most assist in nhl history history

Wayne Gretzky has the most career assists, with 1,963 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	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	1,963	1,487	894	2,857	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
2	Ron Francis R. Francis	1,249	1,731	549	1,798	-18	977	188	539	12	19	79	4	3,756	14.6	3,205	5,757	55.7	119	199	203	153	19:41
3	Mark Messier M. Messier	1,193	1,756	694	1,887	+211	1,912	179	402	63	81	92	8	4,221	16.4	3,780	6,871	55.0	195	138	161	310	18:47
4	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	1,169	1,612	410	1,579	+527	1,141	173	588	16	28	60	5	6,209	6.6	0	1	0.0	277	203	143	135	26:38
5	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	1,155	1,733	766	1,921	+322	1,167	217	393	11	4	135	19	5,637	13.6	9	42	21.4	281	194	495	1,087	19:53
6	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	1,135	1,409	396	1,531	+298	1,802	135	529	20	31	43	1	4,389	9.0	0	0		33	89	23	97	21:50
7	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	1,109	1,714	430	1,539	+182	1,272	146	402	6	6	68	9	3,068	14.0	12,730	24,108	52.8	1,142	498	1,225	1,527	19:18
8	Adam Oates A. Oates	1,079	1,337	341	1,420	+33	415	103	410	12	23	56	5	2,392	14.3	4,526	7,892	57.3	45	149	209	371	20:00
9	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	1,063	1,514	692	1,755	+184	924	202	393	50	33	94	9	4,602	15.0	3,405	5,929	57.4	171	210	189	251	18:38
10	Gordie Howe G. Howe	1,049	1,767	801	1,850	+160	1,685	211	353	24	12	121		3,803	10.1
11	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	1,040	1,348	731	1,771	+27	600	234	409	19	11	73	2	5,363	13.6
12	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	1,033	915	690	1,723	+114	834	236	465	49	22	74	11	3,633	19.0	1,414	2,865	49.4	52	45	70	122	22:40
13	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	1,017	1,293	599	1,616	+210	831	174	393	4	7	93	23	4,137	14.5	14,925	28,348	52.6	1,135	632	749	1,048	20:41
14	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	1,016	1,378	625	1,641	+30	614	205	426	32	17	86	7	4,621	13.5	6,687	12,735	52.5	227	268	419	405	21:09
15	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	964	1,474	450	1,414	+129	1,301	153	335	18	26	56	3	2,834	15.9	1,556	3,008	51.7	140	122	103	178	18:20
16	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	956	1,652	577	1,533	0	1,033	200	369	18	14	91	6	3,820	15.1	880	1,815	48.5	898	288	342	518	18:53
17	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	934	1,416	340	1,274	+371	1,511	166	556	10	23	44	3	5,157	6.6	2	2	100.0	152	266	129	247	26:38
18	Larry Murphy L. Murphy	929	1,615	288	1,217	+197	1,084	114	433	9	18	36	4	3,604	8.0	2	2	100.0	66	152	40	129	20:40
19	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	926	1,396	541	1,467	+329	1,264	150	312	12	6	84		4,482	12.1
20	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	901	1,279	524	1,425	+449	912	161	262	19	20	69	1	2,841	18.4
21	Phil Housley P. Housley	894	1,495	338	1,232	-53	822	129	483	7	3	49	5	3,808	8.9	1	2	50.0	93	147	85	196	20:52
22	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	891	1,188	518	1,409	-98	740	182	386	12	11	49	4	3,754	13.8
23	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	878	1,564	264	1,142	+450	514	132	458	10	30	35	4	3,875	6.8	0	0		477	990	462	638	26:56
24	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	873	1,282	717	1,590	+252	910	246	303	23	12	118		5,166	13.9
25	Denis Savard D. Savard	865	1,196	473	1,338	+103	1,336	127	361	20	13	56	1	3,142	15.1