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NHL Assists Leaders: Montreal Canadiens
2025-26All situationsThrough 83 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 Montreal Canadiens in 2025-26: Nick Suzuki (MTL), 72 A.
Assists leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | A | GP | Per game | G | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nick SuzukiFMTL | MTL | 72 | 82 | 0.88 | 29 | 101 | 100%▲0.5 |
| 2 | Lane HutsonDMTL | MTL | 66 | 82 | 0.80 | 12 | 78 | 99%▲3.1 |
| 3 | Juraj SlafkovskýFMTL | MTL | 43 | 82 | 0.52 | 30 | 73 | 100%▲1.5 |
| 4 | Ivan DemidovFMTL | MTL | 43 | 82 | 0.52 | 19 | 62 | 91%▲22 |
| 5 | Cole CaufieldFMTL | MTL | 37 | 81 | 0.46 | 51 | 88 | 100%▲1.2 |
| 6 | Noah DobsonDMTL | MTL | 35 | 80 | 0.44 | 12 | 47 | 98%▼1.2 |
| 7 | Mike MathesonDMTL | MTL | 30 | 78 | 0.38 | 7 | 37 | 85%▼7.8 |
| 8 | Zachary BolducFMTL | MTL | 18 | 78 | 0.23 | 12 | 30 | 21%▲19 |
| 9 | Brendan GallagherFMTL | MTL | 16 | 77 | 0.21 | 7 | 23 | 3.3%▲2.8 |
| 10 | Oliver KapanenFMTL | MTL | 15 | 82 | 0.18 | 22 | 37 | 29%▲25 |
| 11 | Alexandre CarrierDMTL | MTL | 15 | 73 | 0.21 | 7 | 22 | 14%▲12 |
| 12 | Alexandre TexierFMTL | MTL | 13 | 51 | 0.25 | 8 | 21 | 4.9%▲4.3 |
| 13 | Jake EvansFMTL | MTL | 12 | 68 | 0.18 | 12 | 24 | 5.7%▲5.2 |
| 14 | Alex NewhookFMTL | MTL | 12 | 42 | 0.29 | 13 | 25 | 26%▲23 |
| 15 | Phillip DanaultFMTL | MTL | 11 | 75 | 0.15 | 6 | 17 | 4.9%▲4.5 |
| 16 | Jayden StrubleDMTL | MTL | 10 | 59 | 0.17 | 2 | 12 | 3.3%▲2.9 |
| 17 | Josh AndersonFMTL | MTL | 9 | 72 | 0.13 | 14 | 23 | 10%▲9.2 |
| 18 | Kaiden GuhleDMTL | MTL | 9 | 39 | 0.23 | 2 | 11 | 19%▲18 |
| 19 | Kirby DachFMTL | MTL | 7 | 37 | 0.19 | 8 | 15 | 12%▲12 |
| 20 | Sammy BlaisFMTL | MTL | 5 | 21 | 0.24 | 3 | 8 | — |
| 21 | Arber XhekajDMTL | MTL | 3 | 65 | 0.05 | 1 | 4 | 10%▲6.3 |
| 22 | Joseph VelenoFMTL | MTL | 3 | 61 | 0.05 | 2 | 5 | 4.1%▲3.9 |
| 23 | Adam EngstromDMTL | MTL | 1 | 15 | 0.07 | 0 | 1 | 6.4%▲6.3 |
| 24 | Jared DavidsonFMTL | MTL | 1 | 10 | 0.10 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |
| 25 | Patrik LaineFMTL | MTL | 1 | 5 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 9.7%▲9.2 |
| 26 | Florian XhekajFMTL | MTL | 1 | 5 | 0.20 | 0 | 1 | 8.1%▲7.7 |
| 27 | David ReinbacherDMTL | MTL | 1 | 2 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 28%▲27 |
| 28 | Owen BeckFMTL | MTL | 0 | 15 | 0.00 | 1 | 1 | 8.8%▲8.7 |
| 29 | Joshua RoyFMTL | MTL | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 8.0%▲8 |
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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