most years as an nhl player 1997-98 to 2016-17

Between the 1997-98 and 2016-17 seasons, 7 players were tied for playing the most seasons, with 19 seasons. The first three are Zdeno Chara, Matt Cullen and Shane Doan.

	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	Zdeno Chara Z. Chara	19	1,350	188	416	604	+218	1,779	92	131	8	26	28	3	2,942	6.4	13	36	36.1	3,236	1,700	486	1,095	24:49
2	Matt Cullen M. Cullen	19	1,366	248	441	689	-29	558	55	122	19	16	34	1	2,583	9.6	7,911	15,239	51.9	672	528	606	612	16:19
3	Shane Doan S. Doan	19	1,403	391	552	943	-42	1,203	127	181	6	13	66	10	3,739	10.5	1,025	2,370	43.2	2,842	358	756	571	18:59
4	Marian Hossa M. Hossa	19	1,309	525	609	1,134	+245	628	143	231	34	12	85	15	4,229	12.4	64	187	34.2	1,062	395	1,008	668	18:55
5	Jarome Iginla J. Iginla	19	1,472	604	646	1,250	+34	1,003	189	222	12	6	98	7	4,590	13.2	2,726	5,238	52.0	1,599	464	610	778	19:56
6	Patrick Marleau P. Marleau	19	1,493	508	574	1,082	-8	459	160	233	17	4	98	9	3,798	13.4	5,533	11,543	47.9	1,257	355	647	1,035	18:39
7	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	19	1,446	384	1,007	1,391	+206	1,156	130	369	6	6	61	9	2,759	13.9	11,706	22,096	53.0	1,021	417	1,063	1,353	20:09
8	Patrik Elias P. Elias	18	1,222	406	614	1,020	+177	547	113	220	16	17	80	16	3,262	12.4	2,429	5,649	43.0	724	263	503	719	18:25
9	Dainius Zubrus D. Zubrus	18	1,225	220	350	570	-2	769	54	77	5	9	36	2	1,915	11.5	3,538	7,219	49.0	1,283	485	488	500	17:12
10	Brian Campbell B. Campbell	17	1,082	87	417	504	+63	277	32	170	1	4	17	2	1,452	6.0	0	3	0.0	587	1,161	300	645	22:06
11	Mike Fisher M. Fisher	17	1,088	276	309	585	+27	807	63	71	15	15	49	7	2,319	11.9	8,536	16,853	50.6	2,316	922	496	427	17:31
12	Roberto Luongo R. Luongo	17	966	0	20	20		46					0											57:31
13	Mike Ribeiro M. Ribeiro	17	1,074	228	565	793	+5	577	73	206	2	2	32	6	1,581	14.4	5,410	12,245	44.2	1,000	356	566	723	17:31
14	Dan Boyle D. Boyle	17	1,093	163	442	605	-5	693	72	227	1	2	29	6	2,231	7.3	1	12	8.3	897	1,334	469	785	23:06
15	Vincent Lecavalier V. Lecavalier	17	1,212	421	528	949	-140	848	127	194	13	10	63	9	3,468	12.1	8,431	17,639	47.8	1,305	338	479	746	18:48
16	David Legwand D. Legwand	17	1,136	228	390	618	+7	551	43	110	11	8	43	9	2,116	10.8	6,588	14,325	46.0	467	397	558	656	16:49
17	Daniel Briere D. Briere	17	973	307	389	696	-24	744	106	150	0	2	43	12	2,174	14.1	4,418	8,889	49.7	374	178	336	410	16:34
18	Martin Brodeur M. Brodeur	17	1,031	2	38	40		104	1															59:20
19	Daniel Cleary D. Cleary	17	938	165	222	387	+6	492	32	35	7	5	28	1	1,711	9.6	633	1,313	48.2	957	336	251	322	14:28
20	Sergei Gonchar S. Gonchar	17	1,135	190	543	733	+15	863	95	308	2	8	28	4	2,560	7.4	3	3	100.0	821	1,159	332	788	23:39
21	Olli Jokinen O. Jokinen	17	1,231	321	429	750	-132	1,071	97	151	13	2	54	13	3,343	9.6	7,482	16,292	45.9	1,220	430	499	634	18:26
22	Chris Phillips C. Phillips	17	1,179	71	217	288	+68	756	17	42	3	19	13	3	1,421	5.0	1	5	20.0	1,711	1,524	278	800	20:47
23	Jason Chimera J. Chimera	16	1,033	183	219	402	-19	855	14	19	10	1	30	5	1,931	9.5	267	566	47.2	1,254	257	247	336	13:48
24	Marian Gaborik M. Gaborik	16	989	396	398	794	+93	468	107	144	7	3	71	11	3,127	12.7	25	94	26.6	481	273	337	669	17:54
25	Scott Hartnell S. Hartnell	16	1,187	314	369	683	+69	1,727	107	76	4	4	52	5	2,695	11.7	188	469	40.1	1,766	476	427	547	15:50