Between the 1979-80 and 1999-00 seasons, Wayne Gretzky collected the most points, with 2,857 points.

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NHL most points by a player 1979-80 to 1999-00

	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	Mark Messier M. Messier	1,714	1,479	627	1,087	+236	1,719	156	367	57	76	80	8	3,800	16.5	956	1,684	56.8	50	26	43	69	21:12
3	Steve Yzerman S. Yzerman	1,562	1,256	627	935	+145	816	180	341	49	30	75	5	4,103	15.3	1,061	1,868	56.8	67	56	58	58	21:07
4	Ron Francis R. Francis	1,559	1,407	472	1,087	+24	883	152	457	11	18	67	2	3,214	14.7	835	1,566	53.3	48	53	45	36	21:58
5	Paul Coffey P. Coffey	1,527	1,391	396	1,131	+304	1,772	135	528	20	31	43	1	4,361	9.1	0	0		18	70	21	84	22:35
6	Ray Bourque R. Bourque	1,520	1,532	403	1,117	+502	1,093	171	557	14	28	60	5	5,993	6.7	0	1	0.0	164	94	65	72	27:11
7	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	1,494	745	613	881	+142	737	201	390	48	22	65	9	3,054	20.1
8	Dale Hawerchuk D. Hawerchuk	1,409	1,188	518	891	-98	740	182	386	12	11	49	4	3,754	13.8
9	Jari Kurri J. Kurri	1,398	1,251	601	797	+304	545	155	240	39	43	72	7	3,149	19.1
10	Denis Savard D. Savard	1,338	1,196	473	865	+103	1,336	127	361	20	13	56	1	3,142	15.1
11	Mike Gartner M. Gartner	1,335	1,432	708	627	+68	1,159	217	196	24	5	90	7	5,090	13.9
12	Doug Gilmour D. Gilmour	1,305	1,271	422	883	+139	1,147	141	311	18	26	54	3	2,580	16.4	523	976	53.6	42	37	28	54	19:50
13	Peter Stastny P. Stastny	1,239	977	450	789	-15	824	145	321	7	7	54	2	2,374	19.0
14	Bernie Nicholls B. Nicholls	1,209	1,127	475	734	-39	1,292	152	288	28	15	35	5	3,231	14.7
15	Dino Ciccarelli D. Ciccarelli	1,200	1,232	608	592	-4	1,425	232	190	1	2	73	1	3,706	16.4
16	Adam Oates A. Oates	1,197	1,049	303	894	+47	335	90	322	12	21	48	4	2,119	14.3	1,235	2,176	56.8	19	45	49	121	22:20
17	Larry Murphy L. Murphy	1,196	1,558	286	910	+203	1,072	114	426	9	18	35	3	3,523	8.1	1	1	100.0	38	92	23	81	21:50
18	Dave Andreychuk D. Andreychuk	1,176	1,287	552	624	+78	888	228	250	8	1	59	6	3,860	14.3	241	461	52.3	78	75	72	36	19:22
19	Michel Goulet M. Goulet	1,153	1,089	548	605	+99	825	179	194	16	9	63	3	3,145	17.4
20	Luc Robitaille L. Robitaille	1,150	1,042	553	597	+61	915	200	199	2	3	74	6	3,042	18.2	3	10	30.0	29	12	25	48	18:34
21	Phil Housley P. Housley	1,130	1,288	313	817	-41	738	119	445	7	3	41	4	3,338	9.4	0	1	0.0	23	50	48	90	23:29
22	Brett Hull B. Hull	1,104	940	610	494	-9	371	225	206	18	7	88	6	3,940	15.5	4	10	40.0	27	18	47	83	18:37
23	Al MacInnis A. MacInnis	1,104	1,203	301	803	+324	1,340	145	481	8	20	35	2	4,400	6.8	0	0		44	72	41	79	26:07
24	Glenn Anderson G. Anderson	1,099	1,129	498	601	+201	1,120	151	166	13	7	85	5	3,109	16.0
25	Pierre Turgeon P. Turgeon	1,063	929	423	640	+108	319	155	232	10	10	72	7	2,557	16.5	540	1,016	53.1	5	19	39	69	19:13