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NHL Assists Leaders: Tampa Bay Lightning
2017-18All situationsThrough 82 team games
This board ranks every NHL skater by total assists this season, regular season only.
Assists credit the last one or two players to touch the puck before a goal. Playmaking centres and power-play quarterbacks on the blue line top the list, and secondary assists make the totals noisier than goals suggest. Assists are a standard category and pile up for players on the top power-play unit. A defenseman racking up assists is usually on PP1; check the power-play points board to confirm.
Leader for the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2017-18: Nikita Kucherov (TBL), 61 A.
Assists leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | A | GP | Per game | G | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikita KucherovFTBL | TBL | 61 | 80 | 0.76 | 39 | 100 | 100% |
| 2 | Steven StamkosFTBL | TBL | 59 | 78 | 0.76 | 27 | 86 | 94%▼4.2 |
| 3 | Victor HedmanDTBL | TBL | 46 | 77 | 0.60 | 17 | 63 | 93%▲11 |
| 4 | Yanni GourdeFTBL | TBL | 39 | 82 | 0.48 | 25 | 64 | 4.9%▲4 |
| 5 | J.T. MillerFTBL | TBL | 35 | 82 | 0.43 | 23 | 58 | 92%▲7.7 |
| 6 | Brayden PointFTBL | TBL | 34 | 82 | 0.41 | 32 | 66 | 95%▲7.5 |
| 7 | Alex KillornFTBL | TBL | 32 | 82 | 0.39 | 15 | 47 | 5.1%▲3.6 |
| 8 | Mikhail SergachevDTBL | TBL | 31 | 79 | 0.39 | 9 | 40 | 98%▲5.2 |
| 9 | Tyler JohnsonFTBL | TBL | 29 | 81 | 0.36 | 21 | 50 | — |
| 10 | Ryan McDonaghDTBL | TBL | 25 | 63 | 0.40 | 4 | 29 | 7.3%▲6.8 |
| 11 | Ondrej PalatFTBL | TBL | 24 | 56 | 0.43 | 11 | 35 | 0.1% |
| 12 | Chris KunitzFTBL | TBL | 16 | 82 | 0.20 | 13 | 29 | — |
| 13 | Anton StralmanDTBL | TBL | 14 | 80 | 0.17 | 4 | 18 | — |
| 14 | Braydon CoburnDTBL | TBL | 14 | 72 | 0.19 | 1 | 15 | — |
| 15 | Ryan CallahanFTBL | TBL | 13 | 67 | 0.19 | 5 | 18 | — |
| 16 | Dan GirardiDTBL | TBL | 12 | 77 | 0.16 | 6 | 18 | — |
| 17 | Jake DotchinDTBL | TBL | 8 | 48 | 0.17 | 3 | 11 | — |
| 18 | Anthony CirelliFTBL | TBL | 6 | 18 | 0.33 | 5 | 11 | 51%▲19 |
| 19 | Andrej SustrDTBL | TBL | 5 | 44 | 0.11 | 2 | 7 | — |
| 20 | Cedric PaquetteFTBL | TBL | 4 | 56 | 0.07 | 5 | 9 | — |
| 21 | Cory ConacherFTBL | TBL | 4 | 36 | 0.11 | 8 | 12 | — |
| 22 | Slater KoekkoekDTBL | TBL | 4 | 35 | 0.11 | 4 | 8 | — |
| 23 | Matthew PecaFTBL | TBL | 3 | 10 | 0.30 | 2 | 5 | — |
| 24 | Adam ErneFTBL | TBL | 1 | 23 | 0.04 | 3 | 4 | 0.0% |
| 25 | Michael BournivalFTBL | TBL | 0 | 5 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | — |
How to read it
Total assists this season, all situations.
How reliable is it?
Totals reward games played and ice time as much as skill; see the per-60 version for the rate view.
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