OVs 6.4 cumulative "passing" is definitely surprising.
OV is fourteenth in assists since 07/08 with 472A. Kessel with same 472A and 68.6 "passing", E.Staal is seventeenth with 470A and 75.2 "passing", Wheeler is tenth with 497A and 134 "passing".
Granted Staal and Wheeler are better passers but raw A totals are pretty similar. Idk about Kessel...
Since 07/08 from hockey-reference:
Rk | Player | A | GP |
1 | Nicklas Backstrom | 684 | 956 |
2 | Sidney Crosby | 654 | 824 |
3 | Joe Thornton | 640 | 964 |
4 | Ryan Getzlaf | 633 | 914 |
5 | Patrick Kane | 633 | 973 |
6 | Evgeni Malkin | 608 | 829 |
7 | Henrik Sedin | 600 | 848 |
8 | Anze Kopitar | 576 | 1001 |
9 | Claude Giroux | 558 | 889 |
10 | Blake Wheeler | 497 | 931 |
11 | Henrik Zetterberg | 492 | 802 |
12 | Jakub Voracek | 488 | 915 |
13 | David Krejci | 479 | 905 |
14 | Phil Kessel | 472 | 996 |
15 | Alex Ovechkin | 472 | 989 |
16 | Keith Yandle | 472 | 969 |
17 | Eric Staal | 470 | 995 |
18 | Jonathan Toews | 470 | 943 |
19 | Erik Karlsson | 468 | 736 |
20 | Duncan Keith | 468 | 975 |
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