Wayne Gretzky has recorded the most career points by a forward, with 2,857 points.

	NAME	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	2,857	1,487	894	1,963	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
2	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	1,921	1,733	766	1,155	+322	1,167	217	393	11	4	135	19	5,637	13.6	9	42	21.4	281	194	495	1,087	19:53
3	Mark Messier M. Messier	1,887	1,756	694	1,193	+211	1,912	179	402	63	81	92	8	4,221	16.4	3,780	6,871	55.0	195	138	161	310	18:47
4	Gordie Howe G. Howe	1,850	1,767	801	1,049	+160	1,685	211	353	24	12	121		3,803	10.1
5	Ron Francis R. Francis	1,798	1,731	549	1,249	-18	977	188	539	12	19	79	4	3,756	14.6	3,205	5,757	55.7	119	199	203	153	19:41
6	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	1,771	1,348	731	1,040	+27	600	234	409	19	11	73	2	5,363	13.6
7	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	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
8	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	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
9	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	1,721	1,383	644	1,077	+192	882	192	408	4	7	102	25	4,375	14.7	16,019	30,277	52.9	1,207	676	782	1,136	20:39
10	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	1,654	1,523	911	743	+71	835	328	283	5	1	139	27	6,948	13.1	66	192	34.4	3,788	569	786	1,219	20:34
11	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	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
12	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	1,590	1,282	717	873	+252	910	246	303	23	12	118		5,166	13.9
13	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	1,539	1,714	430	1,109	+182	1,272	146	402	6	6	68	9	3,067	14.0	12,730	24,107	52.8	1,142	498	1,225	1,527	19:18
14	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	1,533	1,652	577	956	0	1,033	200	369	18	14	91	6	3,820	15.1	880	1,815	48.5	898	288	342	518	18:53
15	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	1,467	1,396	541	926	+329	1,264	150	312	12	6	84		4,482	12.1
16	Teemu Selanne T. Selanne	1,457	1,451	684	773	+95	660	255	333	7	2	110	9	4,540	15.1	935	1,994	46.9	243	158	461	783	17:56
17	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	1,425	1,279	524	901	+449	912	161	262	19	20	69	1	2,841	18.4
18	Adam Oates A. Oates	1,420	1,337	341	1,079	+33	415	103	410	12	23	56	5	2,392	14.3	4,526	7,892	57.3	45	149	209	371	20:00
19	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	1,414	1,474	450	964	+129	1,301	153	335	18	26	56	3	2,834	15.9	1,556	3,008	51.7	140	122	103	178	18:20
20	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	1,409	1,188	518	891	-98	740	182	386	12	11	49	4	3,754	13.8
21	Jari Kurri J. Kurri	1,398	1,251	601	797	+304	545	155	240	39	43	72	7	3,149	19.1
22	Luc Robitaille L. Robitaille	1,394	1,431	668	726	+71	1,177	247	260	3	3	89	7	3,961	16.9	25	67	37.3	184	57	92	237	15:57
23	Brett Hull B. Hull	1,391	1,269	741	650	+23	458	265	271	20	8	110	12	4,876	15.2	18	50	36.0	119	90	191	358	18:01
24	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	1,375	1,239	522	853	+33	1,222	185	336	4	1	87	14	3,876	13.5	6,094	13,578	44.9	723	530	1,037	1,204	19:31
25	Mike Modano M. Modano	1,374	1,499	561	813	+114	926	157	336	29	18	92	9	4,273	13.1	7,431	14,376	51.7	203	290	691	973	19:41