most nhl playoff points in last 40 seasons

Since 1985-86, Wayne Gretzky recorded the most points in the playoffs, with 226 points.

Interpreted as:

most NHL playoff points by a player in last 40 seasons

	NAME	P	GP	G	A	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	226	138	66	160	+20	34	23	68	4	7	13	3	395	16.7
2	Mark Messier M. Messier	210	167	70	140	+19	176	18	52	9	5	9	0	450	15.6
3	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	201	180	71	130	+18	83	20	55	0	0	9	1	542	13.1	2,127	4,116	51.7	185	88	133	158	20:56
4	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	201	208	78	123	+30	163	24	41	2	0	16	4	682	11.4	3	5	60.0	42	16	52	106	20:18
5	Brett Hull B. Hull	190	202	103	87	+13	73	38	31	4	0	24	3	803	12.8	1	4	25.0	55	29	66	82	18:34
6	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	188	172	84	104	-2	78	27	53	4	1	19	8	582	14.4	1,163	2,181	53.3	102	62	80	77	22:00
7	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	183	263	54	129	+61	76	30	81	3	3	11	1	656	8.2	0	0		99	193	85	107	28:00
8	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	180	177	67	113	+6	242	28	53	1	1	13	2	608	11.0	816	1,753	46.5	200	93	136	181	19:51
9	Sergei Fedorov S. Fedorov	176	183	52	124	+38	133	15	54	5	6	12	1	603	8.6	625	1,198	52.2	107	35	66	58	20:46
10	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	176	189	65	111	-7	82	25	48	3	8	11	1	564	11.5	480	798	60.2	38	33	26	31	19:54
11	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	175	168	57	118	+29	223	19	50	2	7	12	2	334	17.1	224	437	51.3	30	23	21	23	17:59
12	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	172	107	76	96	+20	87	29	49	7	1	11	0	402	18.9	167	360	46.4	10	6	20	23	24:35
13	Peter Forsberg P. Forsberg	171	151	64	107	+54	163	16	38	2	1	14	3	353	18.1	271	575	47.1	166	16	108	95	19:42
14	Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	167	147	53	114	+37	114	19	52	0	0	8	2	442	12.0	0	2	0.0	184	40	76	141	19:22
15	Claude Lemieux C. Lemieux	158	234	80	78	+41	529	21	24	0	3	19	3	730	11.0	9	19	47.4	100	8	17	25	16:51
16	Adam Oates A. Oates	156	163	42	114	-12	66	17	45	2	2	7	1	312	13.5	484	765	63.3	7	15	31	38	19:56
17	Marian Hossa M. Hossa	149	205	52	97	+25	95	18	33	3	3	12	2	712	7.3	13	26	50.0	331	77	185	102	19:18
18	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	147	189	61	86	+9	93	22	32	0	1	11	1	410	14.9	74	150	49.3	252	46	56	99	18:19
19	Mike Modano M. Modano	146	176	58	88	0	128	24	33	2	3	15	2	507	11.4	877	1,730	50.7	43	61	115	160	23:19
20	Joe Pavelski J. Pavelski	143	201	74	69	-1	84	30	25	0	1	18	4	548	13.5	1,331	2,537	52.5	332	219	123	154	19:47
21	Ron Francis R. Francis	143	171	46	97	+28	95	15	41	0	4	11	2	374	12.3	250	486	51.4	35	25	40	28	18:41
22	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	143	162	36	107	+13	234	23	64	0	3	4	1	612	5.9	0	1	0.0	52	51	14	33	28:21
23	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	141	151	72	69	+3	77	28	33	0	0	10	0	642	11.2	11	15	73.3	641	84	71	128	21:11
24	Brad Marchand B. Marchand	138	157	56	82	+30	159	17	31	2	2	13	3	409	13.7	41	127	32.3	203	76	88	138	19:27
25	Patrick Kane P. Kane	138	143	53	85	+4	70	8	36	1	0	11	5	445	11.9	16	62	25.8	49	34	81	87	20:21