Wayne Gretzky has recorded the most career points by a player younger than 39, with 2,857 points.

Interpreted as:

most points before turning 39 years old by a player

	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	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	1,771	1,348	731	1,040	+27	600	234	409	19	11	73	2	5,363	13.6
3	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
4	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
5	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	1,687	1,352	625	1,062	+197	854	184	403	4	7	100	25	4,299	14.5	15,664	29,637	52.9	1,181	662	772	1,107	20:40
6	Ron Francis R. Francis	1,682	1,552	506	1,176	+7	927	167	506	11	19	74	4	3,471	14.6	2,084	3,744	55.7	102	143	152	101	20:53
7	Mark Messier M. Messier	1,680	1,441	617	1,063	+250	1,701	151	358	57	76	78	8	3,722	16.6	407	709	57.4	28	4	13	32	20:54
8	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	1,629	1,363	623	1,006	+36	608	205	420	32	17	86	7	4,575	13.6	6,570	12,519	52.5	220	263	406	391	21:14
9	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
10	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	1,590	1,282	717	873	+252	910	246	303	23	12	118	0	5,166	13.9
11	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	1,550	1,426	853	697	+45	817	312	269	5	1	129	26	6,627	12.9	64	188	34.0	3,632	550	772	1,142	20:45
12	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	1,527	1,391	396	1,131	+304	1,772	135	528	20	31	43	1	4,361	9.1	0	0		18	70	21	84	22:35
13	Gordie Howe G. Howe	1,500	1,397	649	851	+73	1,434	172	301	19	12	103	0	2,657	8.7
14	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	1,491	1,489	390	1,101	+502	1,083	162	546	14	28	60	5	5,852	6.7	0	1	0.0	82	33	34	30	28:00
15	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	1,460	1,379	539	921	+327	1,252	150	312	12	6	84	0	4,454	12.1
16	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	1,427	1,493	397	1,030	+197	1,194	137	380	6	6	62	9	2,833	14.0	11,935	22,535	53.0	1,053	435	1,096	1,408	20:05
17	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	1,425	1,279	524	901	+449	912	161	262	19	20	69	1	2,841	18.4
18	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	1,409	1,188	518	891	-98	740	182	386	12	11	49	4	3,754	13.8
19	Jari Kurri J. Kurri	1,398	1,251	601	797	+304	545	155	240	39	43	72	7	3,149	19.1
20	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	1,384	1,412	439	945	+135	1,265	150	329	18	26	56	3	2,749	16.0	1,376	2,646	52.0	136	111	99	168	18:51
21	Luc Robitaille L. Robitaille	1,370	1,366	653	717	+77	1,125	244	254	3	3	87	7	3,836	17.0	21	54	38.9	154	42	89	203	16:16
22	Mats Sundin M. Sundin	1,349	1,346	564	785	+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
23	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	1,346	1,213	514	832	+28	1,202	183	325	4	1	86	13	3,810	13.5	6,000	13,370	44.9	713	523	1,029	1,176	19:34
24	Patrick Kane P. Kane	1,343	1,302	492	851	0	454	138	308	0	1	81	14	4,233	11.6	328	846	38.8	335	298	719	714	20:03
25	Denis Savard D. Savard	1,338	1,196	473	865	+103	1,336	127	361	20	13	56	1	3,142	15.1