[Alberta's Child]

According to Wikipedia:

- Gretzky's record of 15 regular season overtime assists has now been passed by three players. They are Nicklas Lidstrom (16), Adam Oates (17), and Mark Messier (18).

- Joe Sakic (16), Mark Messier (14), and Ray Bourque (13) have passed Gretzky's record (12) for most All-Star game assists.

[Hieronymus]

Thanks. Both are more obscure records, but still worth keeping. I wonder how many hundreds of “official” records there are in the NHL for players (excluding goalies).

I imagine that the regular season overtime assist is the more impressive of these two records, though that at first seems counterintuitive.

I haven’t followed an NHL all-star game in 4-7 years, but the last one that I did follow seemed to demonstrate that players didn’t want to get hurt by playing aggressive defense in essentially a meaningless game with the result that goals (and assists) were being handed out like Ben Biernacki handing out liquidity.