NHL Player Leaders

The league's leaders, each board with its minimum stated.

Who leads the league in scoring, ice time and goaltending — and, from our own model, which skaters tilt the ice most at five-on-five?

2026-27 seasonregular season

Leaders inPointsGoalsAssistsShotsTime on ice5-on-5 impact (ours)

Assiststop 50 of 563 · at least 1 game

Connor McDavid (EDM) leads at 6, 2 clear of Jack Eichel, among the 563 players with at least 1 game.

First and second assists together. Players with fewer than 1 game are left off: 30% of the most games anyone has played this season.

#	Player	Pos	GP	P	A
1	Connor McDavid	C	2	7	6
2	Jack Eichel	C	2	5	4
3	Filip Hronek	D	2	4	4
4	Evan Bouchard	D	2	8	4
5	Adam Fox	D	3	3	3
6	Brayden McNabb	D	2	3	3
7	Charlie Coyle	C	1	3	3
8	Jared McCann	L	1	3	3
9	Macklin Celebrini	C	1	3	3
10	Jamie Oleksiak	D	2	3	2
11	Morgan Rielly	D	2	2	2
12	Shea Theodore	D	2	3	2
13	Nikita Zadorov	D	2	2	2
14	Leon Draisaitl	C	2	4	2
15	David Pastrnak	R	2	2	2
16	Ivan Barbashev	L	2	2	2
17	Brock Boeser	R	2	3	2
18	Elias Pettersson	C	2	4	2
19	Mason Lohrei	D	2	2	2
20	Liam Ohgren	L	2	2	2
21	Easton Cowan	R	2	3	2
22	Nazem Kadri	C	1	2	2
23	Brock Nelson	C	1	3	2
24	Jaden Schwartz	L	1	2	2
25	Adam Lowry	C	1	2	2
26	Devon Toews	D	1	2	2
27	Vince Dunn	D	1	3	2
28	Dylan Strome	C	1	2	2
29	Zach Werenski	D	1	2	2
30	Clayton Keller	R	1	2	2
31	Samuel Girard	D	1	2	2
32	Pierre-Luc Dubois	C	1	2	2
33	Cale Makar	D	1	2	2
34	Filip Hallander	C	1	3	2
35	Kaedan Korczak	D	1	2	2
36	Alex Laferriere	R	1	2	2
37	Owen Power	D	1	2	2
38	Noah Ostlund	C	1	2	2
39	Mika Zibanejad	C	3	2	1
40	Oliver Bjorkstrand	R	3	1	1
41	Pavel Dorofeyev	R	3	2	1
42	Tye Kartye	L	3	1	1
43	Will Cuylle	L	3	1	1
44	Noah Laba	C	3	1	1
45	Gabe Perreault	R	3	2	1
46	Lars Eller	C	2	1	1
47	Luke Schenn	D	2	1	1
48	John Tavares	C	2	1	1
49	Dmitry Kulikov	D	2	1	1
50	Nic Dowd	C	2	1	1

How this is measured

Scoring, ice time and goaltending numbers are the NHL's own regular-season totals for 2026-27. A player traded during the season is counted once, with the crest of his last club.

5-on-5 impact is ours. Our lineup model splits every five-on-five shift into who was on the ice and the expected goals each side created, and solves for each skater's effect on both, with linemates, opponents, home ice and the score accounted for. The number is expected goals for minus against per 60 minutes that his presence adds. It is not the player's own expected goals — we do not publish a per-shooter number — and it cannot see the power play, the penalty kill, or anything that happens away from the puck and never becomes a shot. More →