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NHL Assists Leaders: Washington Capitals
2018-19All situationsThrough 84 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 Washington Capitals in 2018-19: John Carlson (WSH), 57 A.
Assists leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | A | GP | Per game | G | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John CarlsonDWSH | WSH | 57 | 80 | 0.71 | 13 | 70 | 99%▲2.4 |
| 2 | Nicklas BackstromFWSH | WSH | 52 | 80 | 0.65 | 22 | 74 | — |
| 3 | Evgeny KuznetsovFWSH | WSH | 51 | 76 | 0.67 | 21 | 72 | — |
| 4 | Alex OvechkinFWSH | WSH | 38 | 81 | 0.47 | 51 | 89 | 96%▲1.2 |
| 5 | T.J. OshieFWSH | WSH | 29 | 69 | 0.42 | 25 | 54 | — |
| 6 | Dmitry OrlovDWSH | WSH | 26 | 82 | 0.32 | 3 | 29 | 35%▲21 |
| 7 | Brett ConnollyFWSH | WSH | 24 | 81 | 0.30 | 22 | 46 | — |
| 8 | Jakub VranaFWSH | WSH | 23 | 82 | 0.28 | 24 | 47 | — |
| 9 | Lars EllerFWSH | WSH | 23 | 81 | 0.28 | 13 | 36 | 0.2% |
| 10 | Michal KempnyDWSH | WSH | 19 | 71 | 0.27 | 6 | 25 | — |
| 11 | Nick JensenDWSH | WSH | 18 | 80 | 0.23 | 2 | 20 | 0.1% |
| 12 | Tom WilsonFWSH | WSH | 18 | 63 | 0.29 | 22 | 40 | 94%▲6.3 |
| 13 | Matt NiskanenDWSH | WSH | 17 | 80 | 0.21 | 8 | 25 | — |
| 14 | Travis BoydFWSH | WSH | 15 | 53 | 0.28 | 5 | 20 | — |
| 15 | Nic DowdFWSH | WSH | 14 | 64 | 0.22 | 8 | 22 | 3.2%▲3.1 |
| 16 | Carl HagelinFWSH | WSH | 14 | 58 | 0.24 | 5 | 19 | — |
| 17 | Andre BurakovskyFWSH | WSH | 13 | 76 | 0.17 | 12 | 25 | 5.6%▲5.4 |
| 18 | Christian DjoosDWSH | WSH | 9 | 45 | 0.20 | 1 | 10 | — |
| 19 | Brooks OrpikDWSH | WSH | 7 | 53 | 0.13 | 2 | 9 | — |
| 20 | Chandler StephensonFWSH | WSH | 6 | 64 | 0.09 | 5 | 11 | 17%▲13 |
| 21 | Dmitrij JaskinFWSH | WSH | 6 | 37 | 0.16 | 2 | 8 | — |
| 22 | Devante Smith-PellyFWSH | WSH | 4 | 54 | 0.07 | 4 | 8 | — |
| 23 | Jonas SiegenthalerDWSH | WSH | 4 | 26 | 0.15 | 0 | 4 | 3.3%▲2.9 |
| 24 | Nathan WalkerFWSH | WSH | 1 | 3 | 0.33 | 0 | 1 | 0.1% |
| 25 | Tyler LewingtonDWSH | WSH | 1 | 2 | 0.50 | 1 | 2 | — |
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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