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

Interpreted as:

most points per games with a minimum of 500 points by a player in season openers

	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	1,096	724	364	732	+164	278	88	282	8	10	72	16	2,444	14.9	3,995	8,380	47.7	535	282	665	669	21:46
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	1,703	1,365	634	1,069	+201	876	188	404	4	7	101	25	4,326	14.7	15,796	29,885	52.9	1,194	669	777	1,121	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	1,004	812	361	643	+151	388	97	270	0	0	58	8	2,509	14.4	10	22	45.5	448	266	457	781	19:01
13	Leon Draisaitl L. Draisaitl	1.21	970	802	407	563	+90	342	166	170	10	4	72	19	2,182	18.7	6,961	13,115	53.1	468	263	665	898	20:37
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	Pat LaFontaine P. LaFontaine	1.17	1,013	865	468	545	-6	552	156	233	11	0	59	4	2,664	17.6
18	Nathan MacKinnon N. MacKinnon	1.17	1,034	883	377	657	+183	397	106	225	2	2	70	14	3,547	10.6	5,683	12,239	46.4	610	483	461	666	20:33
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	736	641	407	329	+157	140	105	99	2	1	65	13	2,585	15.7	5,104	9,552	53.4	452	648	597	508	19:54
21	Artemi Panarin A. Panarin	1.15	877	764	304	573	+143	224	75	192	0	1	48	10	2,088	14.6	12	58	20.7	224	142	419	663	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	Mitch Marner M. Marner	1.13	755	668	224	531	+136	200	51	180	10	8	37	7	1,683	13.3	111	254	43.7	389	358	643	657	20:04
24	Bernie Federko B. Federko	1.13	1,130	1,000	369	761	-131	487	120	305	2	0	40	0	2,074	17.8
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