most games played by a player drafted in the 3rd round or later

Mark Messier played 1,756 games in his career.

Interpreted as:

most regular-season games played by a player drafted in the 3rd round or later

	NAME	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Mark Messier M. Messier	1,756	694	1,193	1,887	+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
2	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	1,680	209	471	680	+301	2,085	93	133	8	27	35	3	3,419	6.1	13	36	36.1	3,749	2,164	610	1,342	23:55
3	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	1,564	264	878	1,142	+450	514	132	458	10	30	35	4	3,875	6.8	0	0		477	990	462	638	26:56
4	Pat Verbeek P. Verbeek	1,424	522	540	1,062	-46	2,905	186	184	4	6	67	3	3,285	15.9	4	12	33.3	395	27	65	94	13:47
5	Guy Carbonneau G. Carbonneau	1,318	260	403	663	+186	820	12	19	33	17	42	3	1,924	13.5	686	1,290	53.2	135	65	38	34	15:38
6	Mathieu Schneider M. Schneider	1,289	223	520	743	+66	1,245	100	293	4	4	36	4	3,092	7.2	1	8	12.5	1,003	975	319	475	22:44
7	Craig Ludwig C. Ludwig	1,256	38	184	222	+84	1,437	2	8	1	9	3	0	1,074	3.5
8	Marc Bergevin M. Bergevin	1,191	36	145	181	-70	1,090	5	12	2	8	3	0	821	4.4	0	0		238	291	70	115	17:56
9	Kevin Dineen K. Dineen	1,188	355	405	760	-24	2,229	91	124	14	9	56	5	2,769	12.8	12	36	33.3	237	43	46	40	10:06
10	Vyacheslav Kozlov V. Kozlov	1,182	356	497	853	+96	704	99	201	4	7	56	7	2,843	12.5	439	1,068	41.1	295	173	371	493	17:32
11	Kris Letang K. Letang	1,161	175	597	772	+85	805	56	229	6	10	34	11	2,946	5.9	1	5	20.0	2,001	1,755	633	1,102	24:12
12	Kris Draper K. Draper	1,157	161	203	364	+72	790	5	6	21	18	23	2	1,716	9.4	5,261	9,210	57.1	905	238	334	208	14:46
13	Brad Richards B. Richards	1,126	298	634	932	-66	251	95	282	8	6	41	2	3,451	8.6	7,436	15,216	48.9	307	451	582	816	19:55
14	Vinny Prospal V. Prospal	1,108	255	510	765	-57	581	79	176	1	2	34	4	2,417	10.6	2,422	4,733	51.2	778	327	541	404	17:56
15	Brad Marchand B. Marchand	1,100	424	556	980	+285	1,115	84	163	36	23	82	21	2,811	15.1	268	688	39.0	1,039	381	675	946	18:02
16	Neal Broten N. Broten	1,099	289	634	923	+19	569	67	224	25	25	34	4	2,313	12.5
17	Gordie Roberts G. Roberts	1,097	61	359	420	+56	1,582	10	73	1	11	5	0	1,108	5.5
18	Kirk Maltby K. Maltby	1,072	128	132	260	+18	867	4	6	21	7	24	1	1,397	9.2	82	193	42.5	1,149	388	295	175	13:20
19	Cal Clutterbuck C. Clutterbuck	1,064	143	150	293	-19	698	12	7	17	7	25	2	1,660	8.6	83	211	39.3	4,029	518	329	315	13:37
20	Valtteri Filppula V. Filppula	1,056	197	333	530	-4	346	28	75	5	3	26	1	1,435	13.7	5,848	11,505	50.8	426	401	476	446	16:51
21	Alexander Edler A. Edler	1,030	104	335	439	-20	733	46	131	1	2	11	4	2,131	4.9	8	19	42.1	1,594	1,936	310	659	22:14
22	Patrick Roy P. Roy	1,029	0	45	45		262																58:31
23	Brian Gionta B. Gionta	1,026	291	304	595	+35	377	82	77	9	3	53	8	2,770	10.5	432	1,016	42.5	692	344	457	374	17:40
24	Bob Murray B. Murray	1,008	132	382	514	+22	873	48	164	3	7	12	1	2,082	6.3
25	Dave Lewis D. Lewis	1,008	36	187	223	+91	955	1	5	3	4	6	0	962	3.7