nhl player most seasons by inactive player

Chris Chelios and Gordie Howe are tied for playing the most career seasons by an inactive or retired player, with 26 seasons.

	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	1,651	185	763	948	+351	2,891	69	338	13	39	31	1	3,627	5.1	1	5	20.0	569	615	286	550	20:55
2	Gordie Howe G. Howe	26	1,767	801	1,049	1,850	+160	1,685	211	353	24	12	121		3,803	10.1
3	Mark Messier M. Messier	25	1,756	694	1,193	1,887	+211	1,912	179	402	63	81	92	8	4,221	16.4	3,780	6,871	55.0	195	138	161	310	18:47
4	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	24	1,680	209	471	680	+301	2,085	93	133	8	27	35	3	3,419	6.1	13	36	36.1	3,749	2,164	610	1,342	23:55
5	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	24	1,714	430	1,109	1,539	+182	1,272	146	402	6	6	68	9	3,067	14.0	12,730	24,107	52.8	1,142	498	1,225	1,527	19:18
6	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	24	1,733	766	1,155	1,921	+322	1,167	217	393	11	4	135	19	5,637	13.6	9	42	21.4	281	194	495	1,087	19:53
7	Alex Delvecchio A. Delvecchio	24	1,550	456	825	1,281	+24	383	111	265	15	16	75		3,129	10.1
8	Tim Horton T. Horton	24	1,445	115	403	518	+191	1,611	23	75	3	19	21		1,978	4.2
9	Patrick Marleau P. Marleau	23	1,779	566	631	1,197	-27	527	172	243	17	4	109	11	4,333	13.1	5,971	12,423	48.1	1,513	465	757	1,113	18:09
10	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	23	1,639	640	698	1,338	+32	1,121	274	293	10	3	77	7	4,556	14.0	2,834	5,107	55.5	187	276	293	168	15:59
11	Ron Francis R. Francis	23	1,731	549	1,249	1,798	-18	977	188	539	12	19	79	4	3,756	14.6	3,205	5,757	55.7	119	199	203	153	19:41
12	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	23	1,416	340	934	1,274	+371	1,511	166	556	10	23	44	3	5,157	6.6	2	2	100.0	152	266	129	247	26:38
13	Johnny Bucyk J. Bucyk	23	1,540	556	813	1,369	-7	493	159	284	4	0	92		3,087	16.2
14	Martin Brodeur M. Brodeur	22	1,266	2	45	47		122	1															58:48
15	Ray Whitney R. Whitney	22	1,330	385	679	1,064	-79	465	112	311	5	3	45	6	3,040	12.7	230	529	43.5	214	266	564	606	18:18
16	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	22	1,652	577	956	1,533	0	1,033	200	369	18	14	91	6	3,820	15.1	880	1,815	48.5	898	288	342	518	18:53
17	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	22	1,514	692	1,063	1,755	+184	924	202	393	50	33	94	9	4,602	15.0	3,405	5,929	57.4	171	210	189	251	18:38
18	Scott Stevens S. Stevens	22	1,635	196	712	908	+395	2,785	75	230	5	18	34	3	3,238	6.1	0	0		612	570	313	296	23:39
19	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	22	1,612	410	1,169	1,579	+527	1,141	173	588	16	28	60	5	6,209	6.6	0	1	0.0	277	203	143	135	26:38
20	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	22	1,396	541	926	1,467	+329	1,264	150	312	12	6	84		4,482	12.1
21	Doug Mohns D. Mohns	22	1,391	248	462	710	-96	1,261	70	176	6	5	40		1,981	9.8
22	Dean Prentice D. Prentice	22	1,378	391	469	860	-82	487	91	83	8	6	47		2,577	11.3
23	Marc-Andre Fleury M. Fleury	21	1,051	0	22	22	0	86	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	1	2	50.0	3	0	11	137	57:43
24	Matt Cullen M. Cullen	21	1,516	266	465	731	-24	592	55	123	21	18	37	1	2,774	9.6	8,585	16,583	51.8	718	601	644	648	15:49
25	Shane Doan S. Doan	21	1,540	402	570	972	-54	1,353	128	185	6	13	69	11	3,945	10.2	1,025	2,370	43.2	2,842	358	756	571	18:59