Ron Francis and Gordie Howe were tied for playing the most seasons with 51+ points, with 22 seasons.

Interpreted as:

most 51 or more point seasons by NHL player

	NAME	SEAS	P	GP	G	A	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Ron Francis R. Francis	22	1,758	1,651	536	1,222	-9	963	181	526	12	19	77	4	3,665	14.6	2,697	4,853	55.6	108	168	183	127	20:38
2	Gordie Howe G. Howe	22	1,706	1,529	751	955	+151	1,471	206	341	23	12	117		3,709	9.9
3	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	20	1,786	1,507	716	1,070	+319	1,031	199	375	11	4	124	17	5,140	13.9	7	38	18.4	216	158	387	957	20:39
4	Mark Messier M. Messier	20	1,700	1,427	626	1,074	+232	1,655	163	364	57	73	79	8	3,721	16.8	1,999	3,563	56.1	128	73	103	195	20:07
5	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	19	1,581	1,446	873	708	+67	819	317	269	5	1	130	26	6,682	13.1	64	188	34.0	3,644	540	773	1,169	20:39
6	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	19	1,438	1,422	366	1,072	+533	1,023	147	538	15	21	52	5	5,505	6.6	0	1	0.0	277	203	143	135	26:38
7	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	19	2,809	1,439	883	1,926	+540	571	201	667	73	73	90	2	4,946	17.9
8	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	18	1,603	1,289	601	1,002	+190	825	178	381	4	7	93	23	4,115	14.6	14,943	28,296	52.8	1,142	638	736	1,067	20:43
9	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	18	1,589	1,319	610	979	+40	588	200	406	32	17	85	7	4,451	13.7	6,274	11,933	52.6	209	242	382	358	21:21
10	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	18	1,384	1,252	512	872	+323	1,109	144	300	11	6	79		4,199	12.2
11	Norm Ullman N. Ullman	18	1,176	1,264	472	704	+19	676	115	167	8	13	58		3,309	12.4
12	Patrick Kane P. Kane	17	1,296	1,252	472	824	+5	438	136	295	0	1	74	11	4,086	11.6	328	846	38.8	321	285	705	684	20:07
13	Anze Kopitar A. Kopitar	17	1,186	1,351	417	769	+101	322	121	285	14	14	73	9	3,112	13.4	13,359	25,104	53.2	1,151	968	792	866	20:47
14	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	17	1,344	1,354	514	830	+12	904	170	330	18	13	80	5	3,283	15.7	747	1,514	49.3	662	219	266	426	19:35
15	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	17	1,585	1,287	637	948	+175	824	185	337	49	32	81	8	4,133	15.4	2,401	4,199	57.2	118	142	136	162	20:06
16	Mike Gartner M. Gartner	17	1,288	1,334	684	604	+72	1,129	211	192	23	5	87	7	4,854	14.1
17	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	17	1,748	1,311	724	1,024	+33	580	230	402	19	11	73	2	5,289	13.7
18	Johnny Bucyk J. Bucyk	17	1,191	1,205	483	708	+31	360	139	259	2	0	82		2,618	16.7
19	Alex Delvecchio A. Delvecchio	17	1,074	1,216	377	697	+63	272	93	223	14	15	57		2,859	10.4
20	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	16	1,304	1,256	367	937	+204	1,011	123	335	6	6	62	9	2,521	14.6	11,277	21,332	52.9	963	379	1,005	1,279	20:05
21	Mats Sundin M. Sundin	16	1,274	1,258	532	742	+83	1,051	146	274	31	25	90	15	3,758	14.2	7,595	13,840	54.9	424	262	202	448	19:55
22	Brendan Shanahan B. Shanahan	16	1,177	1,239	578	599	+166	2,043	207	243	21	12	97	10	4,367	13.2	275	576	47.7	473	221	214	402	18:23
23	Brett Hull B. Hull	16	1,339	1,211	711	628	+14	448	256	263	17	5	103	11	4,663	15.2	18	50	36.0	118	87	191	358	18:04
24	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	16	1,272	1,227	412	860	+144	1,121	138	299	18	26	53	3	2,507	16.4	523	976	53.6	42	37	28	54	19:50
25	Gilbert Perreault G. Perreault	16	1,310	1,171	503	807	+43	494	133	297	8	4	80	0	3,042	16.5