Igor Larionov and Mark Messier were tied for the oldest in 2001-02. They were 41 years old.

	NAME	AGE	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Igor Larionov I. Larionov	41	2001-02	DET	70	11	32	43	-5	50	4	17	0	0	1	0	50	22.0	283	653	43.3	12	16	32	51	14:28
2	Mark Messier M. Messier	41	2001-02	NYR	41	7	16	23	-1	32	2	6	0	1	2	0	69	10.1	422	787	53.6	35	27	21	37	18:31
3	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	40	2001-02	DET	79	6	33	39	+40	126	1	6	0	3	1	1	128	4.7	0	0		106	110	72	101	25:18
4	Grant Ledyard G. Ledyard	40	2001-02	TBL	53	1	3	4	-5	12	0	2	0	0	0	0	27	3.7	1	2	50.0	50	44	15	19	14:36
5	Adam Oates A. Oates	39	2001-02	TOT	80	14	64	78	-4	28	3	26	0	0	1	0	102	13.7	1,108	1,965	56.4	3	35	53	92	21:52
6	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	38	2001-02	TBL	82	21	17	38	-12	109	9	9	1	1	5	0	161	13.0	738	1,393	53.0	41	74	82	39	16:26
7	Kevin Dineen K. Dineen	38	2001-02	CBJ	59	5	8	13	-6	62	0	1	0	0	0	0	73	6.8	1	9	11.1	68	11	16	7	10:07
8	Ron Francis R. Francis	38	2001-02	CAR	80	27	50	77	+4	18	14	28	0	1	5	1	165	16.4	669	1,136	58.9	19	47	59	34	20:41
9	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	38	2001-02	MTL	70	10	31	41	-7	48	5	7	0	0	2	0	78	12.8	634	1,241	51.1	43	38	42	52	18:39
10	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	38	2001-02	STL	71	11	35	46	+3	52	6	16	0	0	4	0	231	4.8	0	0		59	89	40	66	26:56
11	Sergei Nemchinov S. Nemchinov	38	2001-02	NJD	68	5	5	10	-9	10	0	0	0	0	1	0	49	10.2	212	497	42.7	50	9	27	26	11:09
12	James Patrick J. Patrick	38	2001-02	BUF	56	5	8	13	+3	16	1	2	0	0	0	0	45	11.1	0	0		35	70	6	23	16:27
13	Steve Thomas S. Thomas	38	2001-02	CHI	34	11	4	15	0	17	3	0	0	0	0	0	66	16.7	0	0		46	12	7	22	17:21
14	John Vanbiesbrouck J. Vanbiesbrouck	38	2001-02	NJD	5	0	0	0		4																60:05
15	Mike Vernon M. Vernon	38	2001-02	CGY	18	0	3	3		0																45:50
16	Tommy Albelin T. Albelin	37	2001-02	NJD	42	1	3	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	33	3.0	0	0		21	28	12	17	13:20
17	Ken Daneyko K. Daneyko	37	2001-02	NJD	67	0	6	6	+2	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	44	0.0	0	0		103	113	22	31	15:31
18	Bob Essensa B. Essensa	37	2001-02	BUF	9	0	0	0		0																38:56
19	Ray Ferraro R. Ferraro	37	2001-02	TOT	76	14	23	37	-30	74	4	7	0	0	1	0	99	14.1	515	1,100	46.8	76	27	14	45	15:37
20	Dominik Hasek D. Hasek	37	2001-02	DET	65	0	1	1		8																59:34
21	Phil Housley P. Housley	37	2001-02	CHI	80	15	24	39	-3	34	8	14	0	0	6	0	218	6.9	0	0		43	55	20	50	21:46
22	Brett Hull B. Hull	37	2001-02	DET	82	30	33	63	+18	35	7	15	1	0	4	2	247	12.1	1	5	20.0	33	25	59	61	18:49
23	John MacLean J. MacLean	37	2001-02	DAL	20	3	3	6	-1	17	0	1	0	0	1	0	40	7.5	3	3	100.0	32	5	6	18	12:34
24	Scott Stevens S. Stevens	37	2001-02	NJD	82	1	16	17	+15	44	0	1	0	1	1	0	121	0.8	0	0		184	171	81	80	23:19
25	Gary Suter G. Suter	37	2001-02	SJS	82	6	27	33	+13	57	3	16	0	2	1	0	174	3.4	0	0		99	69	14	61	20:07