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NHL Assists Leaders: Buffalo Sabres
2020-21All situationsThrough 57 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 Buffalo Sabres in 2020-21: Victor Olofsson (BUF), 19 A.
Assists leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | A | GP | Per game | G | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victor OlofssonFBUF | BUF | 19 | 56 | 0.34 | 13 | 32 | 14%▲14 |
| 2 | Rasmus DahlinDBUF | BUF | 18 | 56 | 0.32 | 5 | 23 | 100%▲1 |
| 3 | Jack EichelFBUF | BUF | 16 | 21 | 0.76 | 2 | 18 | 99%▲1.4 |
| 4 | Sam ReinhartFBUF | BUF | 15 | 54 | 0.28 | 25 | 40 | 99% |
| 5 | Rasmus RistolainenDBUF | BUF | 14 | 49 | 0.29 | 4 | 18 | 8.3%▲7.7 |
| 6 | Casey MittelstadtFBUF | BUF | 12 | 41 | 0.29 | 10 | 22 | 14%▲12 |
| 7 | Kyle OkposoFBUF | BUF | 11 | 35 | 0.31 | 2 | 13 | — |
| 8 | Riley SheahanFBUF | BUF | 9 | 53 | 0.17 | 4 | 13 | — |
| 9 | Dylan CozensFBUF | BUF | 9 | 41 | 0.22 | 4 | 13 | 90%▲3.9 |
| 10 | Colin MillerDBUF | BUF | 8 | 48 | 0.17 | 4 | 12 | 0.0% |
| 11 | Jacob BrysonDBUF | BUF | 8 | 38 | 0.21 | 1 | 9 | 0.0% |
| 12 | Jeff SkinnerFBUF | BUF | 7 | 53 | 0.13 | 7 | 14 | 0.1% |
| 13 | Drake CaggiulaFBUF | BUF | 7 | 38 | 0.18 | 3 | 10 | — |
| 14 | Anders BjorkFBUF | BUF | 6 | 45 | 0.13 | 5 | 11 | — |
| 15 | Tage ThompsonFBUF | BUF | 6 | 38 | 0.16 | 8 | 14 | 100%▲1.3 |
| 16 | Henri JokiharjuDBUF | BUF | 5 | 46 | 0.11 | 3 | 8 | 0.1% |
| 17 | Cody EakinFBUF | BUF | 4 | 46 | 0.09 | 3 | 7 | — |
| 18 | Rasmus AsplundFBUF | BUF | 4 | 28 | 0.14 | 7 | 11 | — |
| 19 | Tobias RiederFBUF | BUF | 2 | 44 | 0.05 | 5 | 7 | — |
| 20 | Matt IrwinDBUF | BUF | 2 | 24 | 0.08 | 0 | 2 | — |
| 21 | Jake McCabeDBUF | BUF | 2 | 13 | 0.15 | 1 | 3 | 34%▼15 |
| 22 | Mattias SamuelssonDBUF | BUF | 2 | 12 | 0.17 | 0 | 2 | 79%▲9.3 |
| 23 | Steven FogartyFBUF | BUF | 2 | 9 | 0.22 | 1 | 3 | — |
| 24 | Arttu RuotsalainenFBUF | BUF | 1 | 17 | 0.06 | 5 | 6 | — |
| 25 | Will BorgenDBUF | BUF | 0 | 10 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 4.1%▲3.8 |
| 26 | Brandon DavidsonDBUF | BUF | 0 | 6 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 27 | Brett MurrayFBUF | BUF | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 28 | Jean-Sebastien DeaFBUF | BUF | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 29 | C.J. SmithFBUF | BUF | 0 | 1 | 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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