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NHL Assists Leaders: Washington Capitals
2019-20All situationsThrough 71 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 2019-20: John Carlson (WSH), 60 A.
Assists leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | A | GP | Per game | G | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John CarlsonDWSH | WSH | 60 | 69 | 0.87 | 15 | 75 | 99%▲2.4 |
| 2 | Nicklas BackstromFWSH | WSH | 42 | 61 | 0.69 | 12 | 54 | — |
| 3 | Evgeny KuznetsovFWSH | WSH | 33 | 63 | 0.52 | 19 | 52 | — |
| 4 | Jakub VranaFWSH | WSH | 27 | 69 | 0.39 | 25 | 52 | — |
| 5 | T.J. OshieFWSH | WSH | 23 | 69 | 0.33 | 26 | 49 | — |
| 6 | Lars EllerFWSH | WSH | 23 | 69 | 0.33 | 16 | 39 | 0.2% |
| 7 | Dmitry OrlovDWSH | WSH | 23 | 69 | 0.33 | 4 | 27 | 35%▲21 |
| 8 | Tom WilsonFWSH | WSH | 23 | 68 | 0.34 | 21 | 44 | 94%▲6.3 |
| 9 | Alex OvechkinFWSH | WSH | 19 | 68 | 0.28 | 48 | 67 | 96%▲1.2 |
| 10 | Carl HagelinFWSH | WSH | 17 | 58 | 0.29 | 8 | 25 | — |
| 11 | Ilya KovalchukFWSH | WSH | 16 | 46 | 0.35 | 10 | 26 | — |
| 12 | Michal KempnyDWSH | WSH | 15 | 58 | 0.26 | 3 | 18 | — |
| 13 | Brenden DillonDWSH | WSH | 13 | 69 | 0.19 | 1 | 14 | 9.7%▲9.1 |
| 14 | Radko GudasDWSH | WSH | 13 | 63 | 0.21 | 2 | 15 | 25%▲22 |
| 15 | Richard PanikFWSH | WSH | 13 | 59 | 0.22 | 9 | 22 | — |
| 16 | Nick JensenDWSH | WSH | 8 | 68 | 0.12 | 0 | 8 | 0.1% |
| 17 | Brendan LeipsicFWSH | WSH | 8 | 61 | 0.13 | 3 | 11 | — |
| 18 | Nic DowdFWSH | WSH | 8 | 56 | 0.14 | 7 | 15 | 3.2%▲3.1 |
| 19 | Garnet HathawayFWSH | WSH | 7 | 66 | 0.11 | 9 | 16 | 4.8%▲4.6 |
| 20 | Jonas SiegenthalerDWSH | WSH | 7 | 64 | 0.11 | 2 | 9 | 3.3%▲2.9 |
| 21 | Travis BoydFWSH | WSH | 7 | 24 | 0.29 | 3 | 10 | — |
| 22 | Martin FehérváryDWSH | WSH | 1 | 6 | 0.17 | 0 | 1 | 27%▼7.7 |
| 23 | Tyler LewingtonDWSH | WSH | 0 | 6 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 24 | Beck MalenstynFWSH | WSH | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 4.1%▲3.7 |
| 25 | Michael SgarbossaFWSH | WSH | 0 | 2 | 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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