Wayne Gretzky had the most goals by a player in his first 19 seasons, with 885 scored.

Interpreted as:

most NHL goals by a player through 19 season

	NAME	G	GP	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	885	1,417	1,910	2,795	+543	563	201	659	73	76	88	2	4,956	17.9
2	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	853	1,426	697	1,550	+45	817	312	269	5	1	129	26	6,627	12.9	64	188	34.0	3,632	550	772	1,142	20:45
3	Brett Hull B. Hull	741	1,269	650	1,391	+23	458	265	271	20	8	110	12	4,876	15.2	18	50	36.0	119	90	191	358	18:01
4	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	731	1,348	1,040	1,771	+27	600	234	409	19	11	73	2	5,363	13.6
5	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	717	1,282	873	1,590	+252	910	246	303	23	12	118		5,166	13.9
6	Mike Gartner M. Gartner	708	1,432	627	1,335	+68	1,159	217	196	24	5	90	7	5,090	13.9
7	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	690	915	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	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	681	1,391	1,007	1,688	+278	959	195	362	11	4	118	17	4,881	14.0	7	36	19.4	194	143	337	882	21:03
9	Luc Robitaille L. Robitaille	668	1,431	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
10	Teemu Selanne T. Selanne	663	1,341	743	1,406	+97	620	248	325	7	2	106	9	4,333	15.3	804	1,720	46.7	220	140	422	721	18:21
11	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	658	1,362	1,004	1,662	+160	852	190	373	50	32	87	9	4,362	15.1	2,464	4,247	58.0	135	150	122	159	21:17
12	Brendan Shanahan B. Shanahan	627	1,417	667	1,294	+155	2,425	224	261	23	13	105	10	4,744	13.2	275	576	47.7	473	221	214	402	18:23
13	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	623	1,363	1,006	1,629	+36	608	205	420	32	17	86	7	4,575	13.6	6,570	12,519	52.5	220	263	406	391	21:14
14	Jarome Iginla J. Iginla	611	1,474	662	1,273	+60	970	190	227	13	9	97	6	4,606	13.3	2,710	5,208	52.0	1,483	443	586	752	20:15
15	Bobby Hull B. Hull	610	1,063	560	1,170	+249	634	154	170	19	10	98		4,577	12.7
16	Dino Ciccarelli D. Ciccarelli	608	1,232	592	1,200	-4	1,425	232	190	1	2	73	1	3,706	16.4
17	Jari Kurri J. Kurri	601	1,251	797	1,398	+304	545	155	240	39	43	72	7	3,149	19.1
18	Mark Messier M. Messier	597	1,354	1,015	1,612	+263	1,656	146	336	55	70	74	6	3,572	16.7
19	Gordie Howe G. Howe	595	1,259	766	1,361	+58	1,300	157	270	18	8	99		2,094	8.5
20	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	592	1,272	1,004	1,596	+217	823	172	388	4	7	90	21	4,072	14.5	14,648	27,855	52.6	1,114	623	743	1,021	20:41
21	Mike Bossy M. Bossy	573	752	553	1,126	+380	210	180	198	8	1	80	4	2,709	21.2
22	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	572	1,361	637	1,209	+78	920	236	257	8	1	63	6	3,979	14.4	334	648	51.5	114	100	103	72	15:45
23	Mats Sundin M. Sundin	564	1,346	785	1,349	+73	1,093	160	293	31	25	96	15	4,015	14.0	7,927	14,441	54.9	438	276	212	466	19:44
24	Steven Stamkos S. Stamkos	562	1,111	589	1,151	+32	649	220	212	5	3	87	13	3,400	16.5	6,528	12,944	50.4	1,198	497	491	621	19:08
25	Guy Lafleur G. Lafleur	560	1,126	793	1,353	+446	399	154	266	3	2	98	0	3,516	15.9