most seasons played in nhl including playoffs

Chris Chelios and Gordie Howe are tied for playing the most career seasons in the regular-season and playoffs, with 26 seasons.

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most seasons played by a player in NHL including playoffs

	NAME	SEAS	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	26	1,917	216	876	1,092	+399	3,314	83	384	16	44	37	3	4,214	5.1	1	5	20.0	678	754	343	635	20:51
2	Gordie Howe G. Howe	26	1,924	869	1,141	2,010	+165	1,905	226	394	28	12	132	0	4,104	10.1
3	Mark Messier M. Messier	25	1,992	803	1,379	2,182	+263	2,156	203	470	77	86	106	8	4,892	16.4	3,780	6,871	55.0	195	138	161	310	18:47
4	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	24	1,880	227	523	750	+350	2,303	99	148	8	27	39	3	3,806	6.0	15	38	39.5	4,360	2,491	683	1,553	24:05
5	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	24	1,901	462	1,211	1,673	+146	1,406	157	442	6	6	76	10	3,428	13.5	14,152	26,840	52.7	1,327	585	1,388	1,719	19:24
6	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	24	1,941	844	1,278	2,122	+352	1,330	241	434	13	4	151	23	6,319	13.4	12	47	25.5	323	210	547	1,193	19:55
7	Alex Delvecchio A. Delvecchio	24	1,671	491	894	1,385	+21	412	124	298	15	17	81	0	3,356	9.8
8	Tim Horton T. Horton	24	1,571	126	442	568	+179	1,794	25	85	4	20	22	0	2,188	4.3
9	Patrick Marleau P. Marleau	23	1,974	638	686	1,324	-38	608	196	268	21	4	125	15	4,814	13.3	6,645	13,883	47.9	1,906	525	848	1,253	18:14
10	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	23	1,801	683	753	1,436	+28	1,283	291	327	11	4	83	7	4,954	13.8	3,188	5,835	54.6	248	342	343	198	16:07
11	Ron Francis R. Francis	23	1,902	595	1,346	1,941	+10	1,072	203	580	12	23	90	6	4,130	14.4	3,455	6,243	55.3	154	224	243	181	19:36
12	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	23	1,593	379	1,055	1,434	+382	1,766	192	627	10	26	49	4	5,820	6.5	2	3	66.7	204	317	143	280	26:50
13	Johnny Bucyk J. Bucyk	23	1,664	597	875	1,472	+22	535	175	314	4	0	95	0	3,298	16.3
14	Martin Brodeur M. Brodeur	22	1,471	3	57	60		156	1															59:15
15	Ray Whitney R. Whitney	22	1,438	406	711	1,117	-104	513	118	327	5	3	50	8	3,252	12.5	252	586	43.0	238	285	596	653	18:07
16	Mike Modano M. Modano	22	1,675	619	901	1,520	+114	1,054	181	369	31	21	107	11	4,780	12.9	8,308	16,106	51.6	246	351	806	1,133	20:01
17	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	22	1,841	638	1,042	1,680	+9	1,126	222	401	18	15	102	7	4,230	15.1	954	1,965	48.5	1,150	334	398	617	18:49
18	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	22	1,710	762	1,178	1,940	+173	1,008	229	442	53	41	106	10	5,186	14.7	3,885	6,727	57.8	209	243	215	282	18:48
19	Scott Stevens S. Stevens	22	1,868	222	804	1,026	+439	3,187	87	261	5	22	42	3	3,719	6.0	0	0		843	723	415	379	23:43
20	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	22	1,826	451	1,308	1,759	+554	1,312	188	662	16	31	64	5	7,023	6.4	1	2	50.0	349	262	188	171	27:03
21	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	22	1,551	600	1,017	1,617	+321	1,433	168	348	14	7	95	1	4,978	12.1
22	Doug Mohns D. Mohns	22	1,485	262	498	760	-98	1,383	76	186	6	7	44	0	2,105	9.6
23	Dean Prentice D. Prentice	22	1,432	404	486	890	-82	525	94	92	9	6	49	0	2,681	11.3
24	Brent Burns B. Burns	21	1,622	285	702	987	+24	964	96	256	3	14	42	16	4,439	6.4	83	187	44.4	1,830	2,035	976	1,613	22:31
25	Marc-Andre Fleury M. Fleury	21	1,221	0	26	26	0	98	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	1	2	50.0	3	0	15	163	58:03