Wayne Gretzky recorded the most points by a player in his first 21 seasons, with 2,857 points.

Interpreted as:

most NHL points by a player through 21 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	2,857	1,487	894	1,963	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
2	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	1,802	1,550	722	1,080	+291	1,053	204	381	11	4	129	19	5,281	13.7	8	39	20.5	228	166	411	987	20:35
3	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	1,771	1,348	731	1,040	+27	600	234	409	19	11	73	2	5,363	13.6
4	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
5	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	1,721	1,453	678	1,043	+176	906	198	386	50	33	91	9	4,516	15.0	3,166	5,515	57.4	152	193	173	219	19:56
6	Mark Messier M. Messier	1,714	1,479	627	1,087	+236	1,719	156	367	57	76	80	8	3,800	16.5	956	1,684	56.8	50	26	43	69	21:12
7	Ron Francis R. Francis	1,701	1,569	514	1,187	+13	933	173	511	11	19	76	4	3,509	14.6	2,235	3,973	56.3	104	154	167	106	20:57
8	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	1,641	1,378	625	1,016	+30	614	205	426	32	17	86	7	4,621	13.5	6,687	12,735	52.5	227	268	419	405	21:09
9	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	1,623	1,302	600	1,023	+210	840	175	393	4	7	93	23	4,161	14.4	15,063	28,567	52.7	1,142	637	751	1,051	20:41
10	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	1,590	1,282	717	873	+252	910	246	303	23	12	118		5,166	13.9
11	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	1,575	1,444	868	707	+60	825	316	272	5	1	132	26	6,690	13.0	64	188	34.0	3,676	553	778	1,152	20:43
12	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	1,531	1,409	396	1,135	+298	1,802	135	529	20	31	43	1	4,389	9.0	0	0		33	89	23	97	21:50
13	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	1,520	1,532	403	1,117	+502	1,093	171	557	14	28	60	5	5,993	6.7	0	1	0.0	164	94	65	72	27:11
14	Gordie Howe G. Howe	1,501	1,398	649	852	+74	1,436	172	301	19	12	103		2,661	8.7
15	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	1,485	1,571	563	922	-13	998	194	358	18	13	85	5	3,688	15.3	828	1,718	48.2	817	263	326	486	19:10
16	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	1,478	1,566	413	1,065	+205	1,214	140	392	6	6	66	9	2,924	14.1	12,291	23,211	53.0	1,070	449	1,139	1,450	19:51
17	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	1,460	1,379	539	921	+327	1,252	150	312	12	6	84		4,454	12.1
18	Teemu Selanne T. Selanne	1,457	1,451	684	773	+95	660	255	333	7	2	110	9	4,540	15.1	935	1,994	46.9	243	158	461	783	17:56
19	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	1,425	1,279	524	901	+449	912	161	262	19	20	69	1	2,841	18.4
20	Adam Oates A. Oates	1,420	1,337	341	1,079	+33	415	103	410	12	23	56	5	2,392	14.3	4,526	7,892	57.3	45	149	209	371	20:00
21	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	1,414	1,474	450	964	+129	1,301	153	335	18	26	56	3	2,834	15.9	1,556	3,008	51.7	140	122	103	178	18:20
22	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	1,409	1,188	518	891	-98	740	182	386	12	11	49	4	3,754	13.8
23	Jari Kurri J. Kurri	1,398	1,251	601	797	+304	545	155	240	39	43	72	7	3,149	19.1
24	Luc Robitaille L. Robitaille	1,394	1,431	668	726	+71	1,177	247	260	3	3	89	7	3,961	16.9	25	67	37.3	184	57	92	237	15:57
25	Brett Hull B. Hull	1,391	1,269	741	650	+23	458	265	271	20	8	110	12	4,876	15.2	18	50	36.0	119	90	191	358	18:01