who had the most nhl points before the age of 40

Wayne Gretzky has collected the most career points by a player younger than 40, with 2,857 points.

	NAME	P	GP	G	A	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	2,857	1,487	894	1,963	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
2	Marcel Dionne M. Dionne	1,771	1,348	731	1,040	+27	600	234	409	19	11	73	2	5,363	13.6
3	Mark Messier M. Messier	1,756	1,524	643	1,113	+221	1,753	166	378	57	76	81	8	3,867	16.6	1,513	2,652	57.1	93	47	73	136	20:06
4	Ron Francis R. Francis	1,744	1,633	533	1,211	-3	955	180	524	12	19	77	4	3,628	14.7	2,594	4,672	55.5	108	160	178	118	20:44
5	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	1,721	1,453	678	1,043	+176	906	198	386	50	33	91	9	4,516	15.0	3,166	5,515	57.4	152	193	173	219	19:56
6	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	1,701	889	683	1,018	+130	818	233	453	49	22	74	11	3,556	19.2	1,161	2,408	48.2	44	39	60	92	23:16
7	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	1,687	1,352	625	1,062	+197	854	184	403	4	7	100	25	4,299	14.5	15,664	29,637	52.9	1,181	662	772	1,107	20:40
8	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	1,641	1,378	625	1,016	+30	614	205	426	32	17	86	7	4,621	13.5	6,687	12,735	52.5	227	268	419	405	21:09
9	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	1,638	1,321	659	979	+283	925	186	354	11	4	113	15	4,712	14.0	7	35	20.0	173	130	310	838	21:26
10	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	1,623	1,491	897	726	+60	831	326	277	5	1	136	27	6,864	13.1	64	190	33.7	3,742	563	784	1,189	20:37
11	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	1,590	1,282	717	873	+252	910	246	303	23	12	118	0	5,166	13.9
12	Gordie Howe G. Howe	1,582	1,471	688	894	+87	1,487	182	312	19	12	107	0	2,957	9.1
13	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	1,547	1,569	407	1,140	+514	1,113	172	572	15	28	60	5	6,096	6.7	0	1	0.0	206	146	108	96	27:06
14	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	1,531	1,409	396	1,135	+298	1,802	135	529	20	31	43	1	4,389	9.0	0	0		33	89	23	97	21:50
15	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	1,478	1,566	413	1,065	+205	1,214	140	392	6	6	66	9	2,924	14.1	12,291	23,211	53.0	1,070	449	1,139	1,450	19:51
16	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	1,467	1,396	541	926	+329	1,264	150	312	12	6	84	0	4,482	12.1
17	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	1,425	1,279	524	901	+449	912	161	262	19	20	69	1	2,841	18.4
18	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	1,414	1,474	450	964	+129	1,301	153	335	18	26	56	3	2,834	15.9	1,556	3,008	51.7	140	122	103	178	18:20
19	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	1,409	1,188	518	891	-98	740	182	386	12	11	49	4	3,754	13.8
20	Jari Kurri J. Kurri	1,398	1,251	601	797	+304	545	155	240	39	43	72	7	3,149	19.1
21	Luc Robitaille L. Robitaille	1,392	1,412	666	726	+80	1,161	246	260	3	3	89	7	3,929	17.0	25	64	39.1	175	50	91	227	16:04
22	Brett Hull B. Hull	1,390	1,264	741	649	+26	458	265	270	20	8	110	12	4,868	15.2	18	50	36.0	118	87	191	358	18:04
23	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	1,362	1,381	517	845	+7	930	178	325	18	13	80	4	3,357	15.4	740	1,491	49.6	607	208	256	419	19:49
24	Mike Modano M. Modano	1,359	1,459	557	802	+118	918	156	331	29	18	92	9	4,194	13.3	7,298	14,102	51.8	196	280	677	960	20:04
25	Adam Oates A. Oates	1,357	1,210	330	1,027	+34	391	98	385	12	23	53	5	2,293	14.4	3,424	5,977	57.3	38	129	176	312	21:44