Igor Larionov and Mark Messier were tied for the oldest in 2002-03. They were 42 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	42	2002-03	DET	74	10	33	43	-7	48	5	22	0	0	3	0	50	20.0	195	454	43.0	6	7	6	19	13:55
2	Mark Messier M. Messier	42	2002-03	NYR	78	18	22	40	-2	30	8	8	1	0	5	0	117	15.4	677	1,280	52.9	12	10	16	21	18:38
3	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	41	2002-03	DET	66	2	17	19	+4	78	0	3	1	1	1	0	92	2.2	0	0		32	36	7	28	24:15
4	Adam Oates A. Oates	40	2002-03	ANA	67	9	36	45	-1	16	4	16	0	0	2	0	67	13.4	615	1,064	57.8	2	1	15	25	18:38
5	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	39	2002-03	TBL	72	20	14	34	-12	34	15	13	0	0	3	0	170	11.8	652	1,117	58.4	13	19	15	15	16:12
6	Kevin Dineen K. Dineen	39	2002-03	CBJ	4	0	0	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.0	2	4	50.0	1	0	0	0	10:40
7	Ron Francis R. Francis	39	2002-03	CAR	82	22	35	57	-22	30	8	15	1	0	1	0	156	14.1	462	880	52.5	4	14	16	21	19:43
8	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	39	2002-03	TOT	62	11	19	30	-6	36	3	6	0	0	0	0	85	12.9	180	362	49.7	4	11	4	10	16:34
9	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	39	2002-03	STL	80	16	52	68	+22	61	9	28	1	1	2	0	299	5.4	2	2	100.0	8	26	13	35	26:55
10	James Patrick J. Patrick	39	2002-03	BUF	69	4	12	16	-3	26	2	6	0	0	1	0	63	6.3	2	2	100.0	6	25	4	11	18:55
11	Steve Thomas S. Thomas	39	2002-03	TOT	81	14	16	30	+10	53	1	3	0	0	4	2	118	11.9	8	24	33.3	33	2	7	11	12:53
12	Tommy Albelin T. Albelin	38	2002-03	NJD	37	1	6	7	+10	6	0	1	1	0	0	0	30	3.3	0	0		2	6	7	3	15:13
13	Ken Daneyko K. Daneyko	38	2002-03	NJD	69	2	7	9	+6	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	38	5.3	1	1	100.0	22	32	3	2	15:37
14	Phil Housley P. Housley	38	2002-03	TOT	58	6	23	29	+6	26	2	9	0	0	2	1	137	4.4	1	1	100.0	2	2	0	2	19:20
15	Brett Hull B. Hull	38	2002-03	DET	82	37	39	76	+11	22	12	14	1	1	4	1	262	14.1	7	18	38.9	12	4	13	14	18:07
16	Scott Stevens S. Stevens	38	2002-03	NJD	81	4	16	20	+18	41	0	1	0	2	2	1	113	3.5	0	0		42	62	15	25	23:05
17	Tom Barrasso T. Barrasso	37	2002-03	STL	6	0	0	0		0																48:51
18	Ed Belfour E. Belfour	37	2002-03	TOR	62	0	2	2		24																60:17
19	Marc Bergevin M. Bergevin	37	2002-03	TOT	70	2	5	7	-11	36	0	0	0	1	0	0	27	7.4	0	0		19	23	6	6	18:46
20	Craig Berube C. Berube	37	2002-03	CGY	55	2	4	6	-6	100	0	0	0	0	1	0	21	9.5	8	27	29.6	19	0	1	2	5:16
21	Sylvain Cote S. Cote	37	2002-03	WSH	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	0	0	0	4:12
22	Todd Gill T. Gill	37	2002-03	CHI	5	0	1	1	+3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0.0	0	0		6	4	1	6	19:31
23	Uwe Krupp U. Krupp	37	2002-03	ATL	4	0	0	0	-2	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0		0	2	1	1	15:19
24	Claude Lemieux C. Lemieux	37	2002-03	TOT	68	8	12	20	-12	44	1	4	1	1	0	0	119	6.7	155	330	47.0	22	1	7	27	13:39
25	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	37	2002-03	PIT	67	28	63	91	-25	43	14	31	0	0	4	1	235	11.9	474	1,029	46.1	7	8	10	22	23:05