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NHL Assists Leaders: Pittsburgh Penguins
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 Pittsburgh Penguins in 2025-26: Erik Karlsson (PIT), 51 A.
Assists leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | A | GP | Per game | G | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Erik KarlssonDPIT | PIT | 51 | 75 | 0.68 | 15 | 66 | 95% |
| 2 | Sidney CrosbyFPIT | PIT | 45 | 68 | 0.66 | 29 | 74 | 100%▲2.4 |
| 3 | Evgeni MalkinFPIT | PIT | 42 | 56 | 0.75 | 19 | 61 | 82%▲11 |
| 4 | Bryan RustFPIT | PIT | 36 | 72 | 0.50 | 29 | 65 | 85%▲2.5 |
| 5 | Anthony ManthaFPIT | PIT | 31 | 81 | 0.38 | 33 | 64 | 52%▲15 |
| 6 | Kris LetangDPIT | PIT | 31 | 74 | 0.42 | 3 | 34 | 47%▼16 |
| 7 | Ryan SheaDPIT | PIT | 29 | 80 | 0.36 | 6 | 35 | 16%▲11 |
| 8 | Parker WotherspoonDPIT | PIT | 27 | 80 | 0.34 | 3 | 30 | 20%▲19 |
| 9 | Tommy NovakFPIT | PIT | 26 | 82 | 0.32 | 16 | 42 | 11%▲9.1 |
| 10 | Rickard RakellFPIT | PIT | 24 | 60 | 0.40 | 24 | 48 | 83%▲11 |
| 11 | Egor ChinakhovFPIT | PIT | 21 | 72 | 0.29 | 21 | 42 | 48%▲39 |
| 12 | Ben KindelFPIT | PIT | 18 | 77 | 0.23 | 17 | 35 | 40%▲31 |
| 13 | Justin BrazeauFPIT | PIT | 17 | 64 | 0.27 | 17 | 34 | 11%▲9.4 |
| 14 | Connor DewarFPIT | PIT | 16 | 78 | 0.21 | 14 | 30 | 4.2%▲3.1 |
| 15 | Samuel GirardDPIT | PIT | 16 | 60 | 0.27 | 3 | 19 | 9.0%▲8.6 |
| 16 | Noel AcciariFPIT | PIT | 12 | 67 | 0.18 | 13 | 25 | 3.3%▲3.1 |
| 17 | Blake LizotteFPIT | PIT | 12 | 55 | 0.22 | 7 | 19 | 0.1% |
| 18 | Ilya SolovyovDPIT | PIT | 7 | 30 | 0.23 | 1 | 8 | 0.1% |
| 19 | Jack St. IvanyDPIT | PIT | 7 | 20 | 0.35 | 0 | 7 | 3.2%▲3.2 |
| 20 | Elmer SoderblomFPIT | PIT | 6 | 59 | 0.10 | 7 | 13 | 4.8%▲4.6 |
| 21 | Ville KoivunenFPIT | PIT | 5 | 39 | 0.13 | 2 | 7 | 17%▲17 |
| 22 | Connor CliftonDPIT | PIT | 4 | 50 | 0.08 | 2 | 6 | 7.4%▲6.7 |
| 23 | Kevin HayesFPIT | PIT | 4 | 28 | 0.14 | 4 | 8 | 0.0% |
| 24 | Rutger McGroartyFPIT | PIT | 3 | 24 | 0.13 | 3 | 6 | — |
| 25 | Filip HallanderFPIT | PIT | 3 | 13 | 0.23 | 1 | 4 | 9.1%▲9 |
| 26 | Mathew DumbaDPIT | PIT | 2 | 11 | 0.18 | 1 | 3 | 0.1% |
| 27 | Joona KoppanenFPIT | PIT | 1 | 13 | 0.08 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |
| 28 | Philip TomasinoFPIT | PIT | 1 | 9 | 0.11 | 0 | 1 | — |
| 29 | Caleb JonesDPIT | PIT | 1 | 7 | 0.14 | 0 | 1 | 0.1% |
| 30 | Ryan GravesDPIT | PIT | 0 | 22 | 0.00 | 1 | 1 | 0.1% |
| 31 | Avery HayesFPIT | PIT | 0 | 16 | 0.00 | 5 | 5 | — |
| 32 | Harrison BrunickeDPIT | PIT | 0 | 9 | 0.00 | 1 | 1 | 14%▲14 |
| 33 | Owen PickeringDPIT | PIT | 0 | 4 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 10%▲10 |
| 34 | Bokondji ImamaFPIT | PIT | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0.2% |
| 35 | Sam PoulinFPIT | PIT | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 3.2%▲3.2 |
| 36 | Rafael Harvey-PinardFPIT | PIT | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 37 | Tristan BrozFPIT | PIT | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 3.2%▲3.2 |
| 38 | Jake LivanavageDPIT | PIT | 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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