Patrick Marleau has the most career games by a forward, with 1,779 games.

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most regular-season games played by all NHL forwards

	NAME	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Patrick Marleau P. Marleau	1,779	566	631	1,197	-27	527	172	243	17	4	109	11	4,333	13.1	5,971	12,423	48.1	1,513	465	757	1,113	18:09
2	Gordie Howe G. Howe	1,767	801	1,049	1,850	+160	1,685	211	353	24	12	121		3,803	10.1
3	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
4	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	1,733	766	1,155	1,921	+322	1,167	217	393	11	4	135	19	5,637	13.6	9	42	21.4	281	194	495	1,087	19:53
5	Ron Francis R. Francis	1,731	549	1,249	1,798	-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	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	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
7	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	1,652	577	956	1,533	0	1,033	200	369	18	14	91	6	3,820	15.1	880	1,815	48.5	898	288	342	518	18:53
8	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	1,639	640	698	1,338	+32	1,121	274	293	10	3	77	7	4,556	14.0	2,834	5,107	55.5	187	276	293	168	15:59
9	Jarome Iginla J. Iginla	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	Alex Delvecchio A. Delvecchio	1,550	456	825	1,281	+24	383	111	265	15	16	75		3,129	10.1
11	Shane Doan S. Doan	1,540	402	570	972	-54	1,353	128	185	6	13	69	11	3,945	10.2	1,025	2,370	43.2	2,842	358	756	571	18:59
12	Johnny Bucyk J. Bucyk	1,540	556	813	1,369	-7	493	159	284	4	0	92		3,087	16.2
13	Brendan Shanahan B. Shanahan	1,524	656	698	1,354	+151	2,489	237	270	23	14	109	12	5,086	12.9	293	611	48.0	538	289	260	445	18:13
14	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	1,520	911	741	1,652	+71	835	328	282	5	1	139	27	6,939	13.1	66	192	34.4	3,787	568	786	1,218	20:34
15	Matt Cullen M. Cullen	1,516	266	465	731	-24	592	55	123	21	18	37	1	2,774	9.6	8,585	16,583	51.8	718	601	644	648	15:49
16	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	1,514	692	1,063	1,755	+184	924	202	393	50	33	94	9	4,602	15.0	3,405	5,929	57.4	171	210	189	251	18:38
17	Mike Modano M. Modano	1,499	561	813	1,374	+114	926	157	336	29	18	92	9	4,273	13.1	7,431	14,376	51.7	203	290	691	973	19:41
18	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	1,487	894	1,963	2,857	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
19	Rod Brind'Amour R. Brind'Amour	1,484	452	732	1,184	-39	1,100	149	248	28	28	67	8	3,290	13.7	9,488	16,008	59.3	731	411	390	345	21:02
20	Anze Kopitar A. Kopitar	1,477	445	847	1,292	+115	352	127	324	14	14	78	9	3,365	13.2	14,720	27,555	53.4	1,278	1,050	838	958	20:46
21	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	1,474	450	964	1,414	+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
22	Teemu Selanne T. Selanne	1,451	684	773	1,457	+95	660	255	333	7	2	110	9	4,540	15.1	935	1,994	46.9	243	158	461	783	17:56
23	Mike Gartner M. Gartner	1,432	708	627	1,335	+68	1,159	217	196	24	5	90	7	5,090	13.9
24	Luc Robitaille L. Robitaille	1,431	668	726	1,394	+71	1,177	247	260	3	3	89	7	3,961	16.9	25	67	37.3	184	57	92	237	15:57
25	Scott Mellanby S. Mellanby	1,431	364	476	840	-37	2,479	140	135	1	1	56	0	2,960	12.3	53	115	46.1	485	119	161	256	15:01