Most Career Points in NHL History
About This Dataset
Most Career Points in NHL History
NHL players ranked by total career points (goals plus assists) in regular season play according to official NHL records. Wayne Gretzky's record of 2,857 career points is statistically the most untouchable record in professional sport — so far ahead of every other player that his assists total alone (1,963) exceeds the combined goals and assists of every other player who has ever skated in the NHL, a fact that has led analysts to argue no record in team sport will ever be as dominant again.
Analysis
The top three in Career NHL Points are Wayne Gretzky (2,857), Jaromir Jagr (1,921) and Mark Messier (1,887). Wayne Gretzky tops the list without dominating it, holding 18.4% of what the 8 entities record between them. The other 6 are bunched between 1,723 and 1,887 Career NHL Points.
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Wayne Gretzky leads in Career NHL Points with 2,857.
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Average Career NHL Points: 1,945 · median: 1,824.
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Gap: Wayne Gretzky is 1.7× larger than Mario Lemieux.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Career NHL Points
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
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