It's About The Assist

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Although scoring goals is fun, what all kids need to understand is that winning involves team play and team play means to pass the ball/puck to the person who has the best opportunity to score a goal. We try to instill this into our players but they don't always get the message.  Below is the list of the top 50 all time NHL point leaders.  You will see that all but 4 players have more assists than goals and all have accomplished great things in their careers.  Please share this with you kids so they can get an appreciation of how to play the game! Our point...PASS THE BALL!!

 

NHL All Time Top 50 Point Leaders    
               
Rank Player Pos GP Goal Assists Points % Assist
1 Wayne Gretzky C 1,487 894 1,963 2,857 68.7%
2 Mark Messier C 1,756 694 1,193 1,887 63.2%
3 Jaromir Jagr R 1,629 749 1,119 1,868 59.9%
4 Gordie Howe R 1,767 801 1,049 1,850 56.7%
5 Ron Francis C 1,731 549 1,249 1,798 69.5%
6 Marcel Dionne C 1,348 731 1,040 1,771 58.7%
7 Steve Yzerman C 1,514 692 1,063 1,755 60.6%
8 Mario Lemieux C 915 690 1,033 1,723 60.0%
9 Joe Sakic C 1,378 625 1,016 1,641 61.9%
10 Phil Esposito C 1,282 717 873 1,590 54.9%
11 Ray Bourque D 1,612 410 1,169 1,579 74.0%
12 Mark Recchi R 1,652 577 956 1,533 62.4%
13 Paul Coffey D 1,409 396 1,135 1,531 74.1%
14 Stan Mikita C 1,394 541 926 1,467 63.1%
15 Teemu Selanne R 1,451 684 773 1,457 53.1%
16 Bryan Trottier C 1,279 524 901 1,425 63.2%
17 Adam Oates C 1,337 341 1,079 1,420 76.0%
18 Doug Gilmour C 1,474 450 964 1,414 68.2%
19 Dale Hawerchuk C 1,188 518 891 1,409 63.2%
20 Jari Kurri R 1,251 601 797 1,398 57.0%
21 Luc Robitaille L 1,431 668 726 1,394 52.1%
22 Brett Hull R 1,269 741 650 1,391 46.7%
23 Mike Modano C 1,499 561 813 1,374 59.2%
24 John Bucyk L 1,540 556 813 1,369 59.4%
25 Brendan Shanahan R 1,524 656 698 1,354 51.6%
26 Guy Lafleur R 1,126 560 793 1,353 58.6%
27 Mats Sundin C 1,346 564 785 1,349 58.2%
28 Joe Thornton C 1,367 377 964 1,341 71.9%
29 Denis Savard C 1,196 473 865 1,338 64.6%
30 Dave Andreychuk L 1,639 640 698 1,338 52.2%
31 Mike Gartner R 1,432 708 627 1,335 47.0%
32 Pierre Turgeon C 1,294 515 812 1,327 61.2%
33 Gilbert Perreault C 1,191 512 814 1,326 61.4%
34 Alex Delvecchio C 1,549 456 825 1,281 64.4%
35 Al MacInnis D 1,416 340 934 1,274 73.3%
36 Jarome Iginla R 1,474 611 662 1,273 52.0%
37 Jean Ratelle C 1,281 491 776 1,267 61.2%
38 Peter Stastny C 977 450 789 1,239 63.7%
39 Phil Housley D 1,495 338 894 1,232 72.6%
40 Norm Ullman C 1,410 490 739 1,229 60.1%
41 Jean Beliveau C 1,125 507 712 1,219 58.4%
42 Larry Murphy D 1,615 287 929 1,216 76.4%
43 Jeremy Roenick C 1,363 513 703 1,216 57.8%
44 Bobby Clarke C 1,144 358 852 1,210 70.4%
45 Bernie Nicholls C 1,127 475 734 1,209 60.7%
46 Vincent Damphousse C 1,378 432 773 1,205 64.1%
47 Dino Ciccarelli R 1,232 608 592 1,200 49.3%
48 Rod Brind'Amour C 1,484 452 732 1,184 61.8%
49 Sergei Fedorov C 1,248 483 696 1,179 59.0%
50 Bobby Hull L 1,063 610 560 1,170 47.9%