Wayne Gretzky has the most career points per game played, with 1.92.

Interpreted as:

most average NHL points per game by a player

	NAME	P/GP	P	GP	G	A	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	1.92	2,857	1,487	894	1,963	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
2	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	1.88	1,723	915	690	1,033	+114	834	236	465	49	22	74	11	3,633	19.0	1,414	2,865	49.4	52	45	70	122	22:40
3	Newsy Lalonde N. Lalonde	1.69	167	99	125	42		185					14	1
4	Connor McDavid C. McDavid	1.52	1,103	727	365	738	+165	280	88	286	8	10	72	16	2,452	14.9	4,010	8,408	47.7	535	283	669	673	21:46
5	Shep Mayer S. Mayer	1.5	3	2	1	2		4	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Mike Bossy M. Bossy	1.5	1,126	752	573	553	+380	210	180	198	8	1	80	4	2,709	21.2
7	Joe Malone J. Malone	1.4	176	126	143	33		57					11	3
8	Bobby Orr B. Orr	1.39	915	657	270	645	+582	953	76	248	16	31	26		3,058	8.8
9	John English J. English	1.33	4	3	1	3	+2	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	5	20.0
10	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	1.31	1,771	1,348	731	1,040	+27	600	234	409	19	11	73	2	5,363	13.6
11	Peter Stastny P. Stastny	1.27	1,239	977	450	789	-15	824	145	321	7	7	54	2	2,374	19.0
12	Peter Forsberg P. Forsberg	1.25	885	708	249	636	+238	690	71	252	16	16	43	4	1,693	14.7	2,117	4,434	47.7	362	98	350	379	19:34
13	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	1.25	1,704	1,366	634	1,070	+199	876	188	404	4	7	101	25	4,328	14.6	15,811	29,916	52.9	1,195	669	778	1,122	20:39
14	Kent Nilsson K. Nilsson	1.24	686	553	264	422	-25	116	97	179	16	8	28	1	1,374	19.2
15	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	1.24	1,590	1,282	717	873	+252	910	246	303	23	12	118		5,166	13.9
16	Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	1.23	1,005	814	362	643	+153	388	97	270	0	0	58	8	2,513	14.4	10	22	45.5	448	266	458	784	19:01
17	Kirill Kaprizov K. Kaprizov	1.21	404	333	193	211	+66	139	67	73	0	0	27	10	1,176	16.4	10	41	24.4	241	135	185	313	20:30
18	Leon Draisaitl L. Draisaitl	1.21	973	805	409	564	+90	344	168	170	10	4	72	19	2,187	18.7	6,995	13,176	53.1	468	265	669	906	20:37
19	Guy Lafleur G. Lafleur	1.2	1,353	1,126	560	793	+446	399	154	266	3	2	98	0	3,516	15.9
20	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	1.19	1,641	1,378	625	1,016	+30	614	205	426	32	17	86	7	4,621	13.5	6,687	12,735	52.5	227	268	419	405	21:09
21	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	1.19	1,409	1,188	518	891	-98	740	182	386	12	11	49	4	3,754	13.8
22	Pat LaFontaine P. LaFontaine	1.17	1,013	865	468	545	-6	552	156	233	11	0	59	4	2,664	17.6
23	Nathan MacKinnon N. MacKinnon	1.17	1,035	884	377	658	+182	397	106	226	2	2	70	14	3,553	10.6	5,694	12,264	46.4	610	483	461	668	20:33
24	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	1.16	1,755	1,514	692	1,063	+184	924	202	393	50	33	94	9	4,602	15.0	3,405	5,929	57.4	171	210	189	251	18:38
25	Auston Matthews A. Matthews	1.15	738	642	408	330	+160	140	105	99	2	1	65	13	2,589	15.8	5,119	9,579	53.4	453	652	598	509	19:54