Eddie Shore, Hooley Smith and Nels Stewart were tied for the oldest in 1939-40. They were 37 years old.

	NAME	AGE	SEASON	TM	GP	G	A	P	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	TOI/GP
1	Eddie Shore E. Shore	37	1939-40	TOT	14	4	4	8	13	1	0	0	0	0	0
2	Hooley Smith H. Smith	37	1939-40	NYA	48	7	8	15	51	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Nels Stewart N. Stewart	37	1939-40	NYA	35	6	7	13	4	1	4	0	0	1	0
4	Tiny Thompson T. Thompson	36	1939-40	DET	46	0	0	0	0							61:31
5	Cy Wentworth C. Wentworth	35	1939-40	MTL	32	1	3	4	6	1	1	0	0	0	0
6	Marty Barry M. Barry	34	1939-40	MTL	30	4	10	14	2	1	1	0	0	1	0
7	Johnny Gagnon J. Gagnon	34	1939-40	TOT	34	8	8	16	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
8	Paul Goodman P. Goodman	34	1939-40	CHI	31	0	0	0	0							61:56
9	Johnny Gottselig J. Gottselig	34	1939-40	CHI	39	8	15	23	7	0	3	1	1	3	0
10	Armand Mondou A. Mondou	34	1939-40	MTL	21	2	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Alfie Moore A. Moore	34	1939-40	DET	1	0	0	0	0							60:00
12	John Sorrell J. Sorrell	34	1939-40	NYA	48	8	16	24	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Art Chapman A. Chapman	33	1939-40	NYA	25	4	6	10	2	0	0	0	0	1	0
14	Cliff Barton C. Barton	32	1939-40	NYR	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Walt Buswell W. Buswell	32	1939-40	MTL	46	1	3	4	10	0	1	0	0	0	0
16	Dit Clapper D. Clapper	32	1939-40	BOS	44	10	18	28	25	1	2	1	0	1	0
17	Ebbie Goodfellow E. Goodfellow	32	1939-40	DET	43	11	18	29	31	2	7	1	1	1	0
18	Hec Kilrea H. Kilrea	32	1939-40	DET	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	Gus Marker G. Marker	32	1939-40	TOR	42	10	9	19	15	1	0	1	1	0	0
20	Earl Robinson E. Robinson	32	1939-40	MTL	11	1	4	5	2	0	2	0	0	1	0
21	Cecil Dillon C. Dillon	31	1939-40	DET	44	7	10	17	12	2	2	0	0	1	0
22	Georges Mantha G. Mantha	31	1939-40	MTL	42	9	12	21	6	2	2	0	1	2	1
23	Mush March M. March	31	1939-40	CHI	47	9	14	23	49	0	4	0	1	3	0
24	Allan Murray A. Murray	31	1939-40	NYA	36	1	4	5	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	Doc Romnes D. Romnes	31	1939-40	NYA	15	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0