Chris Chelios has the most career games by a player 42 or older, with 284 games.

NHL most regular-season games by a player after turning 42 years old

	NAME	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	284	7	36	43	+52	214	1	1	1	3	1	0	279	2.5	1	5	20.0	236	289	123	240	17:31
2	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	283	68	116	184	+23	176	20	21	0	0	13	1	605	11.2	2	4	50.0	85	44	132	162	17:02
3	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	204	10	31	41	+50	198	0	1	0	0	2	0	255	3.9	0	0		304	268	56	132	19:30
4	Tim Horton T. Horton	153	1	29	30	+21	137	0	3	0	2	0	0	190	0.5
5	Gordie Howe G. Howe	147	42	57	99	+11	84	10	13	2	0	5	0	305	13.8
6	Teemu Selanne T. Selanne	110	21	30	51	-2	40	7	8	0	0	4	0	207	10.1	131	274	47.8	23	18	39	62	14:47
7	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	109	22	41	63	+20	41	7	13	0	1	8	1	196	11.2	64	120	53.3	103	32	26	36	16:26
8	Mark Messier M. Messier	108	23	36	59	+7	52	3	7	3	1	6	0	149	15.4	935	1,717	54.5	29	38	37	78	17:06
9	Igor Larionov I. Larionov	101	10	35	45	-4	52	4	21	0	0	2	0	65	15.4	333	701	47.5	7	15	26	46	13:06
10	Jacques Plante J. Plante	89	0	2	2		4					0											56:34
11	Johnny Bower J. Bower	89	0	1	1		14					0											49:09
12	Allan Stanley A. Stanley	78	4	15	19	-2	28	2	7	0	2	0	0	82	4.9
13	Gump Worsley G. Worsley	75	0	2	2		24					0											55:16
14	Doug Harvey D. Harvey	72	2	20	22	+10	30	1	5	0	1	0	0	46	4.3
15	Matt Cullen M. Cullen	60	6	11	17	+9	14	0	0	2	2	2	0	74	8.1	284	560	50.7	24	23	20	18	11:22
16	Dominik Hasek D. Hasek	59	0	3	3		16					0											58:27
17	Johnny Bucyk J. Bucyk	53	5	13	18	-1	4	5	4	0	0	0	0	48	10.4
18	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	42	6	12	18	-13	16	4	8	1	1	1	0	81	7.4	258	474	54.4	5	30	23	9	13:26
19	Dwayne Roloson D. Roloson	38	0	0	0		6					0											51:56
20	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	34	5	5	10	-10	10	3	0	0	0	1	0	26	19.2	77	175	44.0	20	10	18	18	11:06
21	Gary Roberts G. Roberts	30	4	3	7	-11	27	2	2	0	0	1	0	32	12.5	1	2	50.0	38	3	6	7	11:39
22	Claude Lemieux C. Lemieux	18	0	1	1	-5	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	0.0	3	14	21.4	34	3	2	4	7:40
23	Frank Boucher F. Boucher	15	4	10	14		2	1	2	0	0	0	0
24	Eddie Johnston E. Johnston	9	0	0	0		0					0											57:47
25	Martin Brodeur M. Brodeur	7	0	0	0		0					0											50:49