Alex Ovechkin has the most career empty-net goals, with 68 goals.

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most empty net goals by a player in career NHL

	NAME	ENG	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	68	1,530	912	744	1,656	+63	839	328	283	5	1	139	27	6,965	13.1	66	192	34.4	3,804	569	786	1,223	20:33
2	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	56	1,487	894	1,963	2,857	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
3	Brad Marchand B. Marchand	40	1,137	446	578	1,024	+280	1,143	88	173	36	23	84	21	2,912	15.3	269	696	38.6	1,068	395	688	985	18:03
4	Marian Hossa M. Hossa	40	1,309	525	609	1,134	+245	628	143	231	34	12	85	15	4,229	12.4	64	187	34.2	1,062	395	1,008	668	18:55
5	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	39	1,389	645	1,081	1,726	+190	882	192	410	4	7	102	25	4,387	14.7	16,091	30,404	52.9	1,215	677	783	1,150	20:39
6	Eric Staal E. Staal	33	1,365	455	608	1,063	-82	854	133	184	21	8	72	5	4,041	11.3	10,063	20,894	48.2	940	558	885	703	19:07
7	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	33	915	690	1,033	1,723	+114	834	236	465	49	22	74	11	3,633	19.0	1,414	2,865	49.4	52	45	70	122	22:40
8	Sebastian Aho S. Aho	32	715	297	369	666	+123	310	72	128	20	12	66	17	1,959	15.2	4,071	7,942	51.3	549	215	506	609	19:08
9	Jarome Iginla J. Iginla	32	1,554	625	675	1,300	+30	1,040	197	231	13	9	101	7	4,759	13.1	2,726	5,238	52.0	1,599	464	610	778	19:56
10	John Tavares J. Tavares	31	1,222	509	640	1,149	-26	537	157	218	3	3	83	19	3,852	13.2	11,667	21,602	54.0	924	516	871	1,093	19:16
11	Blake Wheeler B. Wheeler	31	1,172	321	622	943	+67	764	59	196	14	10	49	5	2,955	10.9	808	1,766	45.8	1,353	723	552	523	18:11
12	Mikko Rantanen M. Rantanen	30	690	309	450	759	+93	479	107	172	0	0	48	5	1,936	16.0	1,017	2,000	50.8	436	364	406	392	20:24
13	Zach Parise Z. Parise	30	1,254	434	455	889	+76	444	125	133	11	10	83	9	3,776	11.5	412	975	42.3	995	767	612	418	17:49
14	Jake Guentzel J. Guentzel	29	638	286	324	610	+92	271	70	92	4	1	39	6	1,811	15.8	389	843	46.1	646	350	293	309	19:21
15	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	29	1,714	430	1,109	1,539	+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
16	Brandon Hagel B. Hagel	28	408	143	185	328	+48	253	15	29	6	11	19	3	906	15.8	105	281	37.4	331	244	276	268	18:12
17	Kyle Connor K. Connor	28	650	302	325	627	-3	147	69	107	9	1	61	13	2,056	14.7	25	74	33.8	184	208	374	370	19:40
18	Artemi Panarin A. Panarin	28	792	316	593	909	+142	236	75	199	0	1	49	10	2,175	14.5	12	58	20.7	229	148	424	698	19:44
19	Patrice Bergeron P. Bergeron	28	1,294	427	613	1,040	+289	496	131	195	22	26	81	9	3,974	10.7	15,182	26,206	57.9	1,032	879	845	469	18:41
20	Pavel Bure P. Bure	28	702	437	342	779	+42	484	121	115	34	15	59	6	3,130	14.0	3	17	17.6	76	70	148	222	24:37
21	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	28	1,279	524	901	1,425	+449	912	161	262	19	20	69	1	2,841	18.4
22	Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	27	837	374	669	1,043	+169	404	99	278	0	0	61	8	2,586	14.5	10	23	43.5	460	275	464	822	19:03
23	Jonathan Marchessault J. Marchessault	27	744	258	295	553	-12	354	62	93	0	0	44	11	2,251	11.5	711	1,693	42.0	869	187	391	478	17:10
24	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	27	1,239	522	853	1,375	+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	Steven Stamkos S. Stamkos	26	1,202	599	616	1,215	+1	701	231	218	5	3	98	17	3,597	16.7	6,940	13,739	50.5	1,270	544	513	695	19:01

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