Gordie Howe has the most career goals by a player 40 or older, with 113 scored.

Interpreted as:

most goals by a player scored by 40+ years old

	NAME	G	GP	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Gordie Howe G. Howe	113	296	155	268	+73	198	29	41	5	0	14	0	846	13.4
2	Jaromir Jagr J. Jagr	107	412	176	283	+39	242	31	39	0	0	22	4	925	11.6	2	7	28.6	108	64	185	249	17:26
3	Teemu Selanne T. Selanne	78	265	119	197	+3	139	35	42	0	0	13	0	630	12.4	373	792	47.1	61	58	105	153	16:37
4	Johnny Bucyk J. Bucyk	61	179	83	144	+20	36	24	32	0	0	11	0	297	20.5
5	Mark Recchi M. Recchi	60	271	111	171	-7	103	22	44	0	1	11	2	463	13.0	140	324	43.2	291	80	86	99	16:50
6	Mark Messier M. Messier	51	232	80	131	-10	159	13	24	6	5	11	0	354	14.4	2,267	4,219	53.7	102	91	88	174	18:09
7	Matt Cullen M. Cullen	29	213	37	66	+6	64	2	2	4	2	5	0	269	10.8	1,022	2,050	49.9	76	98	57	64	12:16
8	Daniel Alfredsson D. Alfredsson	28	115	47	75	+3	43	7	22	0	1	6	2	252	11.1	21	52	40.4	87	55	61	72	17:55
9	Igor Larionov I. Larionov	28	243	102	130	-10	150	12	54	0	0	5	0	163	17.2	871	1,929	45.2	28	40	79	142	14:09
10	Dean Prentice D. Prentice	28	97	19	47	-6	26	5	3	0	0	5	0	204	13.7
11	Nicklas Lidstrom N. Lidstrom	27	152	69	96	+19	48	11	45	0	1	1	1	323	8.4	0	0		90	171	60	56	23:36
12	Gary Roberts G. Roberts	27	137	37	64	-14	164	9	13	0	0	5	0	198	13.6	25	40	62.5	208	27	46	60	14:40
13	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	27	124	30	57	-22	58	14	14	1	1	6	1	246	11.0	1,110	1,949	57.0	19	83	93	42	15:52
14	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	24	341	58	82	+82	314	2	3	1	1	7	0	499	4.8	0	0		536	485	129	254	20:37
15	Dave Keon D. Keon	21	166	50	71	-70	32	2	7	1	0	2	0	228	9.2
16	Ray Whitney R. Whitney	20	101	41	61	-5	18	7	20	0	0	1	0	186	10.8	17	53	32.1	24	30	54	84	15:41
17	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	17	148	44	61	-23	58	6	10	0	0	2	0	144	11.8	439	897	48.9	72	49	86	77	13:58
18	Ron Francis R. Francis	16	98	38	54	-15	22	8	15	0	0	2	0	128	12.5	611	1,085	56.3	11	39	25	35	16:26
19	Patrick Marleau P. Marleau	15	122	16	31	-14	24	3	0	0	0	3	1	171	8.8	177	376	47.1	97	43	51	23	14:31
20	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	14	28	15	29	+10	4	2	5	0	0	3	0	71	19.7	2	2	100.0	43	5	2	29	17:46
21	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	14	61	20	34	+8	18	4	7	0	0	3	0	86	16.3	239	414	57.7	19	17	16	32	12:47
22	Chris Chelios C. Chelios	14	420	79	93	+71	405	2	5	2	4	3	1	491	2.9	1	5	20.0	337	413	171	338	19:24
23	Scott Mellanby S. Mellanby	12	69	24	36	-9	63	5	9	0	0	2	0	103	11.7	16	35	45.7	54	15	30	37	13:43
24	Adam Oates A. Oates	11	127	52	63	-1	24	5	25	0	0	3	0	99	11.1	1,102	1,915	57.5	7	20	33	59	16:41
25	Jean Ratelle J. Ratelle	11	47	26	37	+18	16	4	11	0	1	2	0	62	17.7