2008-09 NHL Assists Leaders

2008-09 regular-season assists leaders. Assists — primary and secondary.

#	Player	A
1	Evgeni Malkin	78
2	Sidney Crosby	70
3	Ryan Getzlaf	66
4	Nicklas Backstrom	66
5	Pavel Datsyuk	65
6	Marc Savard	63
7	Joe Thornton	61
8	Henrik Sedin	60
9	Mike Ribeiro	56
10	Jarome Iginla	54
11	Alex Ovechkin	54
12	Ray Whitney	53
13	Andrei Markov	52
14	Daniel Sedin	51
15	Todd White	51
16	David Krejci	51
17	Martin St. Louis	50
18	Mike Richards	50
19	Vyacheslav Kozlov	50
20	Daniel Alfredsson	50
21	Brian Rafalski	49
22	J-P Dumont	49
23	Zach Parise	49
24	Martin Havlat	48
25	Ilya Kovalchuk	48
26	Stephen Weiss	47
27	Mikko Koivu	47
28	Patrik Elias	47
29	Jason Pominville	46
30	Patrick Kane	45
31	Scott Niedermayer	45
32	Niklas Kronwall	45
33	Alexander Semin	45
34	Brian Campbell	45
35	Ales Hemsky	43
36	Nicklas Lidstrom	43
37	Michael Cammalleri	43
38	Scott Gomez	42
39	Henrik Zetterberg	42
40	Shane Doan	42
41	Derek Roy	42
42	Travis Zajac	42
43	Mike Green	42
44	Jason Spezza	41
45	Dan Boyle	41
46	Simon Gagne	40
47	Tom Gilbert	40
48	Jamie Langenbrunner	40
49	Corey Perry	40
50	Matt Stajan	40