Igor Larionov and Mark Messier were tied for the oldest in 2003-04. They were 43 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	43	2003-04	NJD	49	1	10	11	+3	20	0	5	0	0	0	0	25	4.0	212	419	50.6	1	8	20	27	12:06
2	Mark Messier M. Messier	43	2003-04	NYR	76	18	25	43	+3	42	1	4	2	1	3	0	104	17.3	682	1,241	55.0	20	28	21	57	16:29
3	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	42	2003-04	DET	69	2	19	21	+12	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	113	1.8	0	0		56	94	40	74	21:21
4	Adam Oates A. Oates	41	2003-04	EDM	60	2	16	18	0	8	1	9	0	0	1	0	32	6.3	487	851	57.2	5	19	18	34	14:30
5	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	40	2003-04	TBL	82	21	18	39	-9	42	10	6	0	0	5	1	165	12.7	852	1,475	57.8	14	53	70	33	17:06
6	Ron Francis R. Francis	40	2003-04	TOT	80	13	27	40	-9	14	7	13	0	0	2	0	91	14.3	508	904	56.2	11	31	20	26	15:49
7	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	40	2003-04	STL	3	0	2	2	-1	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	9	0.0	0	0		1	6	2	5	24:59
8	James Patrick J. Patrick	40	2003-04	BUF	55	4	7	11	+11	12	0	1	0	0	1	0	44	9.1	0	0		27	86	10	31	18:59
9	Steve Thomas S. Thomas	40	2003-04	DET	44	10	12	22	+8	25	0	1	0	0	3	0	80	12.5	2	7	28.6	40	13	19	25	12:45
10	Tommy Albelin T. Albelin	39	2003-04	NJD	45	1	3	4	+7	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	27	3.7	0	0		16	41	15	23	14:48
11	Dominik Hasek D. Hasek	39	2003-04	DET	14	0	2	2		2																58:20
12	Brett Hull B. Hull	39	2003-04	DET	81	25	43	68	-4	12	10	13	0	0	6	2	200	12.5	3	7	42.9	15	20	30	70	16:54
13	Scott Stevens S. Stevens	39	2003-04	NJD	38	3	9	12	+3	22	1	0	0	1	1	0	68	4.4	0	0		42	65	24	38	24:01
14	Ed Belfour E. Belfour	38	2003-04	TOR	59	0	2	2		16																58:23
15	Marc Bergevin M. Bergevin	38	2003-04	TOT	61	1	10	11	-6	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	30	3.3	0	0		39	95	16	15	16:02
16	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	38	2003-04	PIT	10	1	8	9	-2	6	0	4	0	0	0	0	21	4.8	85	173	49.1	3	1	3	2	22:24
17	Dave Lowry D. Lowry	38	2003-04	CGY	18	1	1	2	-6	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	11.1	2	19	10.5	24	2	5	1	9:13
18	Kevin Miller K. Miller	38	2003-04	DET	4	0	2	2	+2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	3	4	75.0	6	1	0	1	7:21
19	Cliff Ronning C. Ronning	38	2003-04	NYI	40	9	15	24	+3	2	2	8	0	0	0	0	55	16.4	79	174	45.4	7	12	15	16	11:56
20	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	38	2003-04	DET	75	18	33	51	+10	46	7	11	0	1	3	0	141	12.8	627	1,134	55.3	13	35	48	51	17:32
21	Kelly Buchberger K. Buchberger	37	2003-04	PIT	71	1	3	4	-19	109	0	0	0	0	0	0	34	2.9	29	64	45.3	47	28	4	14	10:21
22	Sean Burke S. Burke	37	2003-04	TOT	47	0	2	2		8																55:45
23	Shayne Corson S. Corson	37	2003-04	DAL	17	5	5	10	+12	29	0	0	1	0	1	0	21	23.8	10	23	43.5	23	10	3	5	13:31
24	Scott Mellanby S. Mellanby	37	2003-04	STL	68	14	17	31	-7	76	6	7	0	0	3	0	103	13.6	2	4	50.0	71	15	16	42	15:29
25	Joe Nieuwendyk J. Nieuwendyk	37	2003-04	TOR	64	22	28	50	+7	26	10	10	1	0	5	0	131	16.8	586	970	60.4	27	15	15	31	15:38