least shots per goal nhl history minimum of 1500 games played

Mark Messier had the fewest shots per goal when playing 1,500+ games, with 6.08.

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least shots per goal by a player NHL history minimum of 1500 games played

	NAME	S/G	GP	S	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Mark Messier M. Messier	6.08	1,756	4,221	694	1,193	1,887	+211	1,912	179	402	63	81	92	8	16.4	3,780	6,871	55.0	195	138	161	310	18:47
2	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	6.62	1,652	3,820	577	956	1,533	0	1,033	200	369	18	14	91	6	15.1	880	1,815	48.5	898	288	342	518	18:53
3	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	6.65	1,514	4,602	692	1,063	1,755	+184	924	202	393	50	33	94	9	15.0	3,405	5,929	57.4	171	210	189	251	18:38
4	Ron Francis R. Francis	6.84	1,731	3,756	549	1,249	1,798	-18	977	188	539	12	19	79	4	14.6	3,205	5,757	55.7	119	199	203	153	19:41
5	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	7.12	1,639	4,556	640	698	1,338	+32	1,121	274	293	10	3	77	7	14.0	2,834	5,107	55.5	187	276	293	168	15:59
6	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	7.13	1,714	3,067	430	1,109	1,539	+182	1,272	146	402	6	6	68	9	14.0	12,730	24,107	52.8	1,142	498	1,225	1,527	19:18
7	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	7.36	1,733	5,637	766	1,155	1,921	+322	1,167	217	393	11	4	135	19	13.6	9	42	21.4	281	194	495	1,087	19:53
8	Jarome Iginla J. Iginla	7.61	1,554	4,759	625	675	1,300	+30	1,040	197	231	13	9	101	7	13.1	2,726	5,238	52.0	1,599	464	610	778	19:56
9	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	7.63	1,513	6,917	907	736	1,643	+66	835	327	280	5	1	139	27	13.1	65	191	34.0	3,782	566	786	1,215	20:35
10	Patrick Marleau P. Marleau	7.66	1,779	4,333	566	631	1,197	-27	527	172	243	17	4	109	11	13.1	5,971	12,423	48.1	1,513	465	757	1,113	18:09
11	Brendan Shanahan B. Shanahan	7.75	1,524	5,086	656	698	1,354	+151	2,489	237	270	23	14	109	12	12.9	293	611	48.0	538	289	260	445	18:13
12	Shane Doan S. Doan	9.81	1,540	3,945	402	570	972	-54	1,353	128	185	6	13	69	11	10.2	1,025	2,370	43.2	2,842	358	756	571	18:59
13	Matt Cullen M. Cullen	10.43	1,516	2,774	266	465	731	-24	592	55	123	21	18	37	1	9.6	8,585	16,583	51.8	718	601	644	648	15:49
14	Larry Murphy L. Murphy	12.51	1,615	3,604	288	929	1,217	+197	1,084	114	433	9	18	36	4	8.0	2	2	100.0	66	152	40	129	20:40
15	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	14.68	1,564	3,875	264	878	1,142	+450	514	132	458	10	30	35	4	6.8	0	0		477	990	462	638	26:56
16	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	15.14	1,612	6,209	410	1,169	1,579	+527	1,141	173	588	16	28	60	5	6.6	0	1	0.0	277	203	143	135	26:38
17	Brent Burns B. Burns	15.57	1,518	4,095	263	658	921	+16	867	88	235	3	14	44	16	6.4	81	178	45.5	1,561	1,872	911	1,502	22:20
18	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	16.36	1,680	3,419	209	471	680	+301	2,085	93	133	8	27	35	3	6.1	13	36	36.1	3,749	2,164	610	1,342	23:55
19	Scott Stevens S. Stevens	16.52	1,635	3,238	196	712	908	+395	2,785	75	230	5	18	34	3	6.1	0	0		612	570	313	296	23:39
20	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	19.61	1,651	3,627	185	763	948	+351	2,891	69	338	13	39	31	1	5.1	1	5	20.0	569	615	286	550	20:55
21	Ryan Suter R. Suter	22.67	1,526	2,426	107	589	696	+127	785	36	218	5	12	20	2	4.4	2	5	40.0	1,201	2,043	548	754	24:05