Chris Chelios and Gordie Howe are tied for playing the most career seasons, with 26 seasons.

Interpreted as:

greatest NHL seasons by a player all-time

	NAME	SEAS	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	26	1,651	185	763	948	+351	2,891	69	338	13	39	31	1	3,627	5.1	1	5	20.0	569	615	286	550	20:55
2	Gordie Howe G. Howe	26	1,767	801	1,049	1,850	+160	1,685	211	353	24	12	121		3,803	10.1
3	Mark Messier M. Messier	25	1,756	694	1,193	1,887	+211	1,912	179	402	63	81	92	8	4,221	16.4	3,780	6,871	55.0	195	138	161	310	18:47
4	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	24	1,680	209	471	680	+301	2,085	93	133	8	27	35	3	3,419	6.1	13	36	36.1	3,749	2,164	610	1,342	23:55
5	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	24	1,714	430	1,109	1,539	+182	1,272	146	402	6	6	68	9	3,067	14.0	12,730	24,107	52.8	1,142	498	1,225	1,527	19:18
6	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	24	1,733	766	1,155	1,921	+322	1,167	217	393	11	4	135	19	5,637	13.6	9	42	21.4	281	194	495	1,087	19:53
7	Alex Delvecchio A. Delvecchio	24	1,550	456	825	1,281	+24	383	111	265	15	16	75		3,129	10.1
8	Tim Horton T. Horton	24	1,445	115	403	518	+191	1,611	23	75	3	19	21		1,978	4.2
9	Patrick Marleau P. Marleau	23	1,779	566	631	1,197	-27	527	172	243	17	4	109	11	4,333	13.1	5,971	12,423	48.1	1,513	465	757	1,113	18:09
10	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	23	1,639	640	698	1,338	+32	1,121	274	293	10	3	77	7	4,556	14.0	2,834	5,107	55.5	187	276	293	168	15:59
11	Ron Francis R. Francis	23	1,731	549	1,249	1,798	-18	977	188	539	12	19	79	4	3,756	14.6	3,205	5,757	55.7	119	199	203	153	19:41
12	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	23	1,416	340	934	1,274	+371	1,511	166	556	10	23	44	3	5,157	6.6	2	2	100.0	152	266	129	247	26:38
13	Johnny Bucyk J. Bucyk	23	1,540	556	813	1,369	-7	493	159	284	4	0	92		3,087	16.2
14	Brent Burns B. Burns	22	1,498	261	649	910	+11	857	88	234	3	14	42	16	4,055	6.4	81	178	45.5	1,557	1,845	907	1,482	22:22
15	Martin Brodeur M. Brodeur	22	1,266	2	45	47		122	1															58:48
16	Ray Whitney R. Whitney	22	1,330	385	679	1,064	-79	465	112	311	5	3	45	6	3,040	12.7	230	529	43.5	214	266	564	606	18:18
17	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	22	1,652	577	956	1,533	0	1,033	200	369	18	14	91	6	3,820	15.1	880	1,815	48.5	898	288	342	518	18:53
18	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	22	1,514	692	1,063	1,755	+184	924	202	393	50	33	94	9	4,602	15.0	3,405	5,929	57.4	171	210	189	251	18:38
19	Scott Stevens S. Stevens	22	1,635	196	712	908	+395	2,785	75	230	5	18	34	3	3,238	6.1	0	0		612	570	313	296	23:39
20	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	22	1,612	410	1,169	1,579	+527	1,141	173	588	16	28	60	5	6,209	6.6	0	1	0.0	277	203	143	135	26:38
21	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	22	1,396	541	926	1,467	+329	1,264	150	312	12	6	84		4,482	12.1
22	Doug Mohns D. Mohns	22	1,391	248	462	710	-96	1,261	70	176	6	5	40		1,981	9.8
23	Dean Prentice D. Prentice	22	1,378	391	469	860	-82	487	91	83	8	6	47		2,577	11.3
24	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	21	1,353	625	1,062	1,687	+197	854	184	403	4	7	100	25	4,301	14.5	15,672	29,651	52.9	1,182	662	772	1,109	20:40
25	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	21	1,492	897	726	1,623	+59	831	326	277	5	1	136	27	6,867	13.1	64	190	33.7	3,744	563	784	1,189	20:37