Wayne Gretzky recorded the most points by a player in his first 17 seasons, with 2,608 points.

Interpreted as:

most NHL points by a player through 17 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	2,608	1,253	837	1,771	+542	507	189	610	73	75	82	2	4,469	18.7
2	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	1,748	1,311	724	1,024	+33	580	230	402	19	11	73	2	5,289	13.7
3	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	1,723	915	690	1,033	+114	834	236	465	49	22	74	11	3,633	19.0	1,414	2,865	49.4	52	45	70	122	22:40
4	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	1,599	1,273	646	953	+275	907	181	345	11	4	112	15	4,596	14.1	7	34	20.6	167	121	296	811	21:49
5	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	1,570	1,241	710	860	+267	890	243	300	23	12	118		5,075	14.0
6	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	1,562	1,256	627	935	+145	816	180	341	49	30	75	5	4,103	15.3	1,061	1,868	56.8	67	56	58	58	21:07
7	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	1,489	1,237	574	915	+38	542	184	379	32	17	81	6	4,193	13.7	5,548	10,565	52.5	188	207	344	286	21:33
8	Mark Messier M. Messier	1,468	1,201	539	929	+261	1,510	131	308	48	62	63	6	3,206	16.8
9	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	1,444	1,211	381	1,063	+314	1,674	127	487	20	31	39	1	4,012	9.5
10	Ron Francis R. Francis	1,434	1,247	428	1,006	+16	831	137	425	11	18	61	2	2,931	14.6
11	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	1,410	1,274	780	630	+83	749	285	243	5	1	121	24	6,061	12.9	60	177	33.9	3,283	500	715	1,055	20:52
12	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	1,410	1,238	520	890	+461	876	161	262	19	19	69	1	2,796	18.6
13	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	1,409	1,108	517	892	+202	731	153	357	4	7	78	20	3,539	14.6	12,580	24,137	52.1	942	539	611	897	20:46
14	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	1,409	1,188	518	891	-98	740	182	386	12	11	49	4	3,754	13.8
15	Jari Kurri J. Kurri	1,398	1,251	601	797	+304	545	155	240	39	43	72	7	3,149	19.1
16	Adam Oates A. Oates	1,357	1,210	330	1,027	+34	391	98	385	12	23	53	5	2,293	14.4	3,424	5,977	57.3	38	129	176	312	21:44
17	Guy Lafleur G. Lafleur	1,353	1,126	560	793	+446	399	154	266	3	2	98	0	3,516	15.9
18	Denis Savard D. Savard	1,338	1,196	473	865	+103	1,336	127	361	20	13	56	1	3,142	15.1
19	Gilbert Perreault G. Perreault	1,326	1,191	512	814	+41	500	134	298	8	4	81	0	3,077	16.6
20	Brett Hull B. Hull	1,322	1,183	716	606	+30	446	255	257	20	8	104	10	4,668	15.3	15	43	34.9	103	67	161	288	18:22
21	Mats Sundin M. Sundin	1,321	1,305	555	766	+78	1,065	155	284	31	25	94	15	3,931	14.1	7,595	13,840	54.9	424	262	202	448	19:55
22	Luc Robitaille L. Robitaille	1,319	1,286	631	688	+73	1,069	232	245	3	3	83	7	3,615	17.5	21	52	40.4	126	32	67	162	16:10
23	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	1,313	1,228	343	970	+520	935	133	472	13	20	51	5	4,977	6.9
24	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	1,305	1,271	422	883	+139	1,147	141	311	18	26	54	3	2,580	16.4	523	976	53.6	42	37	28	54	19:50
25	Patrick Kane P. Kane	1,284	1,230	471	813	+16	442	126	291	0	1	75	12	4,058	11.6	323	833	38.8	316	275	706	637	20:11