Gordie Howe has put up the most career goals by a 40-year-old player, with 44 scored.

Interpreted as:

most goals by a player by 40th years old

	NAME	G	GP	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Gordie Howe G. Howe	44	77	60	104	+44	60	9	17	0	0	6	0	289	15.2
2	Johnny Bucyk J. Bucyk	36	77	47	83	+22	20	13	20	0	0	9	0	151	23.8
3	Teemu Selanne T. Selanne	31	73	49	80	+6	49	16	18	0	0	5	0	213	14.6	97	218	44.5	15	20	37	45	17:56
4	Dean Prentice D. Prentice	26	73	16	42	+4	22	5	3	0	0	5	0	168	15.5
5	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	21	82	18	39	-9	42	10	6	0	0	5	1	165	12.7	852	1,475	57.8	14	53	70	33	17:06
6	Gary Roberts G. Roberts	20	69	22	42	0	97	6	9	0	0	4	0	125	16.0	19	31	61.3	127	19	29	44	16:43
7	Daniel Alfredsson D. Alfredsson	17	74	32	49	+7	39	4	14	0	1	2	0	156	10.9	18	45	40.0	54	42	52	52	18:45
8	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	16	82	46	62	-2	20	7	32	0	1	1	1	175	9.1	0	0		49	92	33	33	23:28
9	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	16	79	36	52	-20	28	3	19	0	0	1	0	128	12.5	25	66	37.9	80	21	31	43	17:25
10	Mark Messier M. Messier	15	73	32	47	-6	85	4	11	3	4	3	0	124	12.1	862	1,601	53.8	67	50	48	91	19:12
11	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	14	61	20	34	+8	18	4	7	0	0	3	0	86	16.3	239	414	57.7	19	17	16	32	12:47
12	Ron Francis R. Francis	13	82	29	42	-14	18	6	11	0	0	1	0	112	11.6	520	923	56.3	7	34	23	25	16:57
13	Scott Mellanby S. Mellanby	12	69	24	36	-9	63	5	9	0	0	2	0	103	11.7	16	35	45.7	54	15	30	37	13:43
14	Dave Keon D. Keon	12	81	37	49	-32	22	2	7	0	0	1	0	133	9.0
15	Patrick Marleau P. Marleau	11	66	11	22	-5	14	1	0	0	0	3	1	117	9.4	36	76	47.4	57	24	29	15	15:34
16	Matt Cullen M. Cullen	11	73	15	26	+1	34	2	2	2	0	2	0	87	12.6	407	821	49.6	32	35	23	31	13:32
17	Ray Whitney R. Whitney	11	32	18	29	+1	4	4	8	0	0	1	0	62	17.7	16	51	31.4	10	14	29	41	19:24
18	Jean Ratelle J. Ratelle	11	47	26	37	+18	16	4	11	0	1	2	0	62	17.7
19	Alex Delvecchio A. Delvecchio	11	65	48	59	-12	4	4	18	0	0	2	0	95	11.6
20	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	10	22	10	20	+6	4	1	3	0	0	3	0	53	18.9	1	1	100.0	40	3	2	26	17:53
21	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	10	79	19	29	+25	66	1	1	1	1	3	0	153	6.5	0	0		157	135	44	77	23:09
22	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	10	38	16	26	0	22	4	5	0	0	2	2	91	11.0	0	0		9	8	13	23	16:54
23	Steve Thomas S. Thomas	10	44	12	22	+8	25	0	1	0	0	3	0	80	12.5	2	7	28.6	40	13	19	25	12:45
24	Adam Oates A. Oates	9	67	36	45	-1	16	4	16	0	0	2	0	67	13.4	615	1,064	57.8	2	1	15	25	18:38
25	Igor Larionov I. Larionov	9	75	38	47	0	42	4	14	0	0	1	0	54	16.7	275	630	43.7	15	15	31	65	15:29