Wayne Gretzky has recorded the most career points per game, with 1.92 per game.

Interpreted as:

most points per game with a minimum of 500 points by a player as an NHL career

	NAME	P/GP	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	1.92	2,857	1,487	894	1,963	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
2	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	1.88	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
3	Connor McDavid C. McDavid	1.51	1,115	736	371	744	+163	286	90	287	8	10	72	16	2,479	15.0	4,055	8,493	47.7	541	286	672	690	21:47
4	Mike Bossy M. Bossy	1.50	1,126	752	573	553	+380	210	180	198	8	1	80	4	2,709	21.2
5	Bobby Orr B. Orr	1.39	915	657	270	645	+582	953	76	248	16	31	26		3,058	8.8
6	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	1.31	1,771	1,348	731	1,040	+27	600	234	409	19	11	73	2	5,363	13.6
7	Peter Stastny P. Stastny	1.27	1,239	977	450	789	-15	824	145	321	7	7	54	2	2,374	19.0
8	Peter Forsberg P. Forsberg	1.25	885	708	249	636	+238	690	71	252	16	16	43	4	1,693	14.7	2,117	4,434	47.7	362	98	350	379	19:34
9	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	1.25	1,710	1,373	638	1,072	+194	878	190	405	4	7	101	25	4,345	14.7	15,891	30,061	52.9	1,198	673	779	1,130	20:39
10	Kent Nilsson K. Nilsson	1.24	686	553	264	422	-25	116	97	179	16	8	28	1	1,374	19.2
11	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	1.24	1,590	1,282	717	873	+252	910	246	303	23	12	118		5,166	13.9
12	Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	1.24	1,019	823	367	652	+158	392	99	272	0	0	60	8	2,541	14.4	10	22	45.5	452	269	460	802	19:02
13	Leon Draisaitl L. Draisaitl	1.21	984	814	413	571	+92	346	169	172	10	4	73	20	2,206	18.7	7,079	13,326	53.1	474	268	671	923	20:38
14	Guy Lafleur G. Lafleur	1.20	1,353	1,126	560	793	+446	399	154	266	3	2	98	0	3,516	15.9
15	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	1.19	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
16	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	1.19	1,409	1,188	518	891	-98	740	182	386	12	11	49	4	3,754	13.8
17	Nathan MacKinnon N. MacKinnon	1.18	1,052	892	384	668	+196	401	107	228	2	2	71	14	3,586	10.7	5,767	12,431	46.4	615	490	463	677	20:33
18	Pat LaFontaine P. LaFontaine	1.17	1,013	865	468	545	-6	552	156	233	11	0	59	4	2,664	17.6
19	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	1.16	1,755	1,514	692	1,063	+184	924	202	393	50	33	94	9	4,602	15.0	3,405	5,929	57.4	171	210	189	251	18:38
20	Auston Matthews A. Matthews	1.15	741	646	410	331	+160	140	105	100	2	1	65	13	2,599	15.8	5,158	9,645	53.5	454	656	598	512	19:54
21	Artemi Panarin A. Panarin	1.15	890	776	308	582	+142	226	75	196	0	1	49	10	2,118	14.5	12	58	20.7	225	142	420	677	19:42
22	Eric Lindros E. Lindros	1.14	865	760	372	493	+215	1,398	111	152	7	2	46	6	2,312	16.1	2,758	5,016	55.0	519	107	171	225	19:06
23	Bernie Federko B. Federko	1.13	1,130	1,000	369	761	-131	487	120	305	2	0	40	0	2,074	17.8
24	Mitch Marner M. Marner	1.12	762	679	225	537	+134	202	51	182	10	8	37	7	1,703	13.2	119	271	43.9	390	365	650	671	20:04
25	Denis Savard D. Savard	1.12	1,338	1,196	473	865	+103	1,336	127	361	20	13	56	1	3,142	15.1