which nhl player has the most career empty-net goals

Alex Ovechkin has the most career empty-net goals, with 59 goals.

	NAME	ENG	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	59	1,444	868	707	1,575	+60	825	316	272	5	1	132	26	6,690	13.0	64	188	34.0	3,676	553	778	1,152	20:43
2	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	56	1,487	894	1,963	2,857	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
3	Marian Hossa M. Hossa	40	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
4	Brad Marchand B. Marchand	35	1,057	411	538	949	+291	1,077	80	160	36	22	81	21	2,696	15.2	266	682	39.0	980	358	660	887	18:02
5	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	35	1,299	600	1,022	1,622	+212	840	175	393	4	7	93	23	4,152	14.5	15,015	28,493	52.7	1,142	637	751	1,048	20:41
6	Eric Staal E. Staal	33	1,365	455	608	1,063	-82	854	133	184	21	8	72	5	4,041	11.3	10,063	20,894	48.2	940	558	885	703	19:07
7	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	33	915	690	1,033	1,723	+114	834	236	465	49	22	74	11	3,633	19.0	1,414	2,865	49.4	52	45	70	122	22:40
8	Jarome Iginla J. Iginla	32	1,554	625	675	1,300	+30	1,040	197	231	13	9	101	7	4,759	13.1	2,726	5,238	52.0	1,599	464	610	778	19:56
9	Blake Wheeler B. Wheeler	31	1,172	321	622	943	+67	764	59	196	14	10	49	5	2,955	10.9	808	1,766	45.8	1,353	723	552	523	18:11
10	Sebastian Aho S. Aho	30	623	261	322	583	+108	272	65	113	17	8	58	13	1,731	15.1	3,303	6,493	50.9	480	181	469	497	18:59
11	Zach Parise Z. Parise	30	1,254	434	455	889	+76	444	125	133	11	10	83	9	3,776	11.5	412	975	42.3	995	768	612	418	17:49
12	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	29	1,714	430	1,109	1,539	+182	1,272	146	402	6	6	68	9	3,068	14.0	12,730	24,108	52.8	1,142	498	1,225	1,527	19:18
13	Patrice Bergeron P. Bergeron	28	1,294	427	613	1,040	+289	494	131	195	22	26	81	9	3,974	10.7	15,182	26,206	57.9	1,032	879	845	469	18:41
14	Pavel Bure P. Bure	28	702	437	342	779	+42	484	121	115	34	15	59	6	3,130	14.0	3	17	17.6	76	70	148	222	24:37
15	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	28	1,279	524	901	1,425	+449	912	161	262	19	20	69	1	2,841	18.4
16	Kyle Connor K. Connor	26	557	256	258	514	-20	129	62	83	6	1	55	11	1,745	14.7	24	72	33.3	157	168	342	283	19:29
17	John Tavares J. Tavares	26	1,133	467	595	1,062	-24	491	146	208	3	3	79	18	3,630	12.9	10,793	20,112	53.7	826	479	836	1,006	19:20
18	Patrick Kane P. Kane	26	1,250	474	820	1,294	+10	446	128	294	0	1	77	12	4,098	11.6	323	834	38.7	324	279	714	660	20:08
19	Teemu Selanne T. Selanne	26	1,451	684	773	1,457	+95	660	255	333	7	2	110	9	4,540	15.1	935	1,994	46.9	243	158	461	783	17:56
20	Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	25	747	332	575	907	+140	343	89	243	0	0	51	6	2,298	14.4	9	20	45.0	436	240	429	677	18:50
21	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	25	1,172	504	816	1,320	+41	1,174	180	319	4	1	84	13	3,743	13.5	5,803	12,954	44.8	696	495	1,007	1,131	19:39
22	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
23	Jake Guentzel J. Guentzel	24	543	237	276	513	+71	240	52	74	1	1	31	5	1,554	15.3	197	406	48.5	613	296	262	227	19:12
24	Artemi Panarin A. Panarin	24	696	278	532	810	+153	210	72	178	0	1	45	10	1,895	14.7	12	58	20.7	209	135	395	571	19:40
25	Mikko Rantanen M. Rantanen	24	596	277	375	652	+77	364	97	143	0	0	45	5	1,703	16.3	915	1,804	50.7	376	318	369	296	20:25