Wayne Gretzky collected the most points by a player in his first 16 seasons, with 2,506 points.

Interpreted as:

most NHL points by a player through 16 season

	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	2,506	1,173	814	1,692	+555	473	183	569	72	75	79	2	4,274	19.0
2	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	1,701	889	683	1,018	+130	818	233	453	49	22	74	11	3,556	19.2	1,161	2,408	48.2	44	39	60	92	23:16
3	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	1,683	1,244	693	990	+47	526	208	380	19	11	69	2	5,105	13.6
4	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	1,528	1,191	621	907	+267	849	174	323	11	4	107	15	4,347	14.3	6	31	19.4	140	105	256	742	22:02
5	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	1,492	1,161	676	816	+281	817	230	285	23	12	113		4,830	14.0
6	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	1,483	1,178	592	891	+117	782	165	327	47	28	69	5	3,869	15.3
7	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	1,410	1,154	372	1,038	+303	1,636	126	479	19	31	37	1	3,902	9.5
8	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	1,409	1,188	518	891	-98	740	182	386	12	11	49	4	3,754	13.8
9	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	1,402	1,155	542	860	+28	482	174	355	32	17	75	5	3,930	13.8	4,672	8,896	52.5	170	175	275	226	21:56
10	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	1,381	1,175	509	872	+472	822	158	258	18	19	69	1	2,694	18.9
11	Jari Kurri J. Kurri	1,376	1,181	596	780	+298	533	153	235	39	42	72	7	3,088	19.3
12	Mark Messier M. Messier	1,369	1,127	492	877	+232	1,388	117	285	47	59	58	5	2,965	16.6
13	Ron Francis R. Francis	1,347	1,166	403	944	+4	811	130	400	11	18	56	2	2,742	14.7
14	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	1,325	1,039	486	839	+183	699	145	335	4	7	69	19	3,331	14.6	11,820	22,687	52.1	892	502	577	843	20:50
15	Guy Lafleur G. Lafleur	1,325	1,067	548	777	+456	397	151	262	3	2	98	0	3,426	16.0
16	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	1,320	1,197	730	590	+75	731	269	230	4	1	116	24	5,727	12.7	56	164	34.1	3,128	475	683	1,005	20:54
17	Denis Savard D. Savard	1,311	1,132	464	847	+113	1,276	125	355	20	13	54	1	3,060	15.2
18	Gilbert Perreault G. Perreault	1,310	1,171	503	807	+43	494	133	297	8	4	80	0	3,042	16.5
19	Luc Robitaille L. Robitaille	1,288	1,205	620	668	+69	1,019	229	236	3	3	83	7	3,467	17.9	12	34	35.3	106	29	65	148	17:20
20	Adam Oates A. Oates	1,279	1,130	316	963	+38	363	95	359	12	23	52	5	2,191	14.4	2,316	4,012	57.7	35	94	123	220	21:40
21	Brett Hull B. Hull	1,246	1,101	679	567	+19	424	243	243	19	7	100	9	4,406	15.4	8	25	32.0	91	63	148	274	18:27
22	Mats Sundin M. Sundin	1,243	1,231	523	720	+61	989	145	265	30	25	90	15	3,672	14.2	6,650	12,127	54.8	391	228	181	394	19:54
23	Peter Stastny P. Stastny	1,239	977	450	789	-15	824	145	321	7	7	54	2	2,374	19.0
24	Patrick Kane P. Kane	1,237	1,180	451	786	+21	426	124	278	0	1	68	9	3,911	11.5	323	833	38.8	302	262	692	607	20:15
25	Pierre Turgeon P. Turgeon	1,234	1,139	480	754	+122	390	176	276	10	10	84	11	2,925	16.4	1,873	3,697	50.7	27	63	140	232	17:17