This is a list of National Hockey League statistical leaders by country of birth , sorted by total points. The top ten players from each country are included. Statistics are current through the end of the 2009–10 NHL season and players currently playing in the NHL are marked in boldface .
All players are listed by the current country of the players' birth location, regardless of their citizenship or where they were trained in hockey, following Hockey Hall of Fame convention.
Country [ ]
Canada [ ]
Wayne Gretzky is the all-time leader in points from any country.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Wayne Gretzky
EDM , LAK , STL , NYR
1487
2857
1.92
2
Mark Messier
EDM , NYR , VAN , NYR
1756
1887
1.07
3
Gordie Howe
DET , HAR
1767
1850
1.05
4
Ron Francis
HAR , PIT , CAR , TOR
1731
1798
1.04
5
Marcel Dionne
DET , LAK , NYR
1348
1771
1.31
6
Steve Yzerman
DET
1514
1755
1.16
7
Mario Lemieux
PIT
915
1723
1.88
8
Joe Sakic
QUE , COL
1378
1641
1.19
9
Phil Esposito
CHI , BOS , NYR
1282
1590
1.24
10
Ray Bourque (D)
BOS , COL
1612
1579
0.98
Czech Republic [ ]
Jaromir Jagr is the all-time leading non-Canadian point scorer.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Jaromir Jagr
PIT , WAS , NYR
1273
1599
1.26
2
Patrik Elias
NJD
880
754
0.86
3
Bobby Holik
HAR , NJD , NYR , ATL , NJD
1314
747
0.57
4
Martin Straka
PIT , OTT , NYI , FLA , PIT, LAK , NYR
954
717
0.75
5
Petr Nedved
[1] || VAN , STL , NYR , PIT , NYR, EDM , PHX , PHI , EDM || 982 || 717 || 0.73
6
Robert Lang
LAK , BOS , PIT , WAS , DET , CHI , MTL , PHX
989
703
0.71
7
Milan Hejduk
COL
839
701
0.84
8
Petr Sykora
NJD , ANA , NYR , EDM , PIT , MIN
935
677
0.72
9
Vaclav Prospal
PHI , OTT , FLA , TBL , ANA , TBL, PHI, NYR
949
657
0.69
10
Robert Reichel
CGY , NYI , PHX , TOR
830
630
0.76
Slovakia [ ]
Marian Hossa is the leading active Slovak point scorer.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Stan Mikita
[2] || CHI || 1394 || 1467 || 1.05
2
Peter Stastny
[3] || QUE , NJD , STL || 977 || 1239 || 1.27
3
Marian Hossa
OTT , ATL , PIT , DET , CHI
832
770
0.93
4
Pavol Demitra
OTT , STL , LAK , MIN , VAN
847
768
0.91
5
Miroslav Satan
EDM , BUF , NYI , PIT , BOS
1050
735
0.70
6
Ziggy Palffy
NYI , LAK , PIT
684
713
1.04
7
Jozef Stumpel
BOS , LAK , BOS, LAK, FLA
957
677
0.71
8
Anton Stastny
QUE
650
636
0.98
9
Marian Gaborik
MIN , NYR
578
523
0.90
10
Michal Handzus
STL , PHX , PHI , CHI , LAK
762
405
0.53
Finland [ ]
Teemu Selanne is Finland's leading active point scorer.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Jari Kurri
EDM , LAK , NYR , ANA , COL
1251
1398
1.12
2
Teemu Selanne
WIN , ANA , SJS , COL , ANA
1186
1260
1.06
3
Tomas Sandstrom
NYR , LAK , PIT , DET , ANA
983
856
0.87
4
Saku Koivu
MTL , ANA
863
693
0.80
5
Teppo Numminen (D)
WIN , PHX , DAL , BUF
1372
637
0.46
6
Esa Tikkanen
EDM , NYR , STL , NJD , VAN , NYR, FLA , WAS , NYR
877
630
0.72
7
Olli Jokinen
LAK , NYI , FLA , PHX , CGY , NYR
881
568
0.64
8
Jere Lehtinen
DAL
875
514
0.59
9
Jyrki Lumme (D)
MTL , VAN , PHX , DAL , TOR
985
468
0.48
10
Sami Kapanen
HAR , CAR , PHI
831
458
0.55
United States [ ]
Mike Modano—the all-time leading U.S. point scorer—is seen here scoring the goal that put him ahead of Phil Housley.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Mike Modano
MNS , DAL
1459
1359
0.93
2
Phil Housley (D)
BUF , WIN , STL , CGY , NJD , WAS , CGY, CHI , TOR
1495
1232
0.82
3
Jeremy Roenick
CHI , PHX , PHI , LAK , PHX, SJS
1363
1216
0.89
4
Joe Mullen
STL , CGY , PIT , BOS , PIT
1062
1063
1.00
5
Keith Tkachuk
WIN , PHX , STL , ATL , STL
1134
1033
0.91
6
Brian Leetch (D)
NYR , TOR , BOS
1205
1028
0.85
7
Doug Weight
NYR , EDM , STL , CAR , STL, ANA , NYI
1220
1024
0.84
8
Pat LaFontaine
NYI , BUF , NYR
865
1013
1.17
9
Chris Chelios (D)
MTL , CHI , DET , ATL
1651
948
0.57
10
Neal Broten
MNS , DAL , NJD , LAK , DAL
1099
923
0.84
Sweden [ ]
Nicklas Lidstrom is Sweden's second all-time leading point scorer—a remarkable feat for a defenseman.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Mats Sundin
QUE , TOR , VAN
1346
1349
1.00
2
Nicklas Lidstrom (D)
DET
1412
1046
0.74
3
Daniel Alfredsson
OTT
1002
992
0.99
4
Peter Forsberg
QUE , COL , PHI , NAS , COL
706
885
1.25
5
Markus Naslund
PIT , VAN , NYR
1117
869
0.78
6
Thomas Steen
WIN
950
817
0.86
7
Borje Salming (D)
TOR , DET
1148
787
0.69
8
Kent Nilsson
ATF , CGY , MNS , EDM
553
686
1.24
9
Michael Nylander
HAR , CGY , TBL , CHI , WAS , BOS , NYR , WAS
920
679
0.74
10
Ulf Dahlen
NYR , MNS , DAL , SJS , CHI , WAS , DAL
966
655
0.68
Russia [ ]
Sergei Fedorov is Russia's all-time leading point scorer.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Sergei Fedorov
DET , ANA , CBJ , WAS
1248
1179
0.94
2
Alexander Mogilny
BUF , VAN , NJD , TOR , NJD
990
1032
1.04
3
Alexei Kovalev
NYR , PIT , NYR, MTL , OTT
1228
990
0.81
4
Vyacheslav Kozlov
DET , BUF , ATL
1182
853
0.72
5
Alexei Yashin
OTT , NYI
850
781
0.92
6
Pavel Bure
VAN , FLA , NYR
702
779
1.11
7
Sergei Zubov (D)
NYR , PIT , DAL
1068
771
0.72
8
Alexei Zhamnov
WIN , CHI , PHI , BOS
807
719
0.89
9
Sergei Gonchar (D)
WAS , BOS , PIT
991
684
0.69
10
Igor Larionov
VAN , SJS , DET , FLA , DET, NJD
921
644
0.70
England [ ]
Joe Hall, who died after only two seasons in the NHL, is England's ninth all-time leading point scorer.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Steve Thomas
[4] || TOR , CHI , NYI , NJD , TOR, CHI, ANA , DET || 1235 || 933 || 0.76
2
Ken Hodge
CHI , BOS , NYR
881
800
0.91
3
Peter Lee
PIT
431
245
0.57
4
Red Beattie
BOS , DET , NYA
334
147
0.44
5
Gord Pettinger
[5] || NYR , DET , BOS || 292 || 116 || 0.40
6
Alex Smith (D)
OTT , DET , OTT, BOS , NYA
443
91
0.21
7
Brian Perry
OAK , BUF
96
45
0.47
8
Walter Jackson
[6] || NYA , BOS || 84 || 27 || 0.32
9
Joe Hall
[7] (D) || MTL || 38 || 23 || 0.61
10
Eric Pettinger
[5] || BOS , TOR , OTT || 98 || 19 || 0.19
Ukraine [ ]
Peter Bondra—seen here scoring on Roberto Luongo—is the all-time leading point scorer from Ukraine, although he played internationally for Slovakia.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Peter Bondra
[8] || WAS , OTT , ATL , CHI || 1081 || 892 || 0.83
2
Dmitri Khristich
WAS , LAK , BOS , TOR , WAS
811
597
0.74
3
Alexei Zhitnik
[9] (D) || LAK , BUF , NYI , PHI , ATL || 1085 || 471 || 0.43
4
Oleg Tverdovsky
[10] (D)|| ANA , WIN , PHX , ANA, NJD , CAR , LAK || 713 || 317 || 0.44
5
Ruslan Fedotenko
PHI , TBL , NYI , PIT
677
308
0.45
6
Alexei Ponikarovsky
TOR , PIT
493
266
0.54
7
Nikolai Zherdev
[11] || CBJ , NYR || 365 || 239 || 0.65
8
Vitaly Vishnevski
[12] (D) || ANA , ATL , NAS , NJD || 552 || 68 || 0.12
9
Anton Babchuk
[13] (D)|| CHI , CAR || 168 || 61 || 0.36
10
Alexander Godynyuk (D)
TOR , CGY , FLA , HAR
223
49
0.22
Northern Ireland [ ]
Serbia [ ]
Germany [ ]
Dany Heatley is the leading active point scorer from Germany, although he plays internationally for Canada.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Walt Tkaczuk
[17] || NYR || 945 || 678 || 0.72
2
Dany Heatley
[18] || ATL , OTT , SJS || 589 || 625 || 1.06
3
Marco Sturm
SJS , BOS
855
466
0.55
4
Jochen Hecht
STL , EDM , BUF
697
412
0.59
5
Willie Huber
[19] (D)|| DET , NYR , VAN , PHI || 655 || 321 || 0.49
6
Uwe Krupp (D)
BUF , NYI , QUE , COL , DET , ATL
729
281
0.39
7
Christian Ehrhoff (D)
SJS , VAN
421
176
0.42
8
Dennis Seidenberg (D)
PHI , PHX , CAR , FLA , BOS
374
116
0.31
9
Randy Gilhen
[20] || HAR , WIN , PIT , LAK , NYR , TBL , FLA , WIN || 457 || 115 || 0.25
10
Brian Glynn (D)
CGY , MNS , EDM , OTT , VAN , HAR
431
104
0.24
France [ ]
Cristobal Huet, a goaltender , is the third leading French point scorer.
Latvia [ ]
Karlis Skrastins is Latvia's third all-time leading point scorer.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Sandis Ozolinsh (D)
SJS , COL , CAR , FLA , ANA , NYR , SJS
875
564
0.64
2
Sergei Zholtok
BOS , OTT , MTL , EDM , MIN , NAS
588
258
0.44
3
Karlis Skrastins (D)
NAS , COL , FLA , DAL
758
128
0.17
4
Raitis Ivanans
MTL , LAK
280
18
0.06
5
Viktor Tikhonov
[23] || PHX || 61 || 16 || 0.26
6
Herberts Vasiljevs
FLA , ATL , VAN
51
15
0.29
7
Helmuts Balderis
MNS
26
9
0.35
8
Oskars Bartulis (D)
PHI
53
9
0.17
9
Arturs Irbe (G)
SJS , DAL , VAN , CAR
568
9
0.02
10
Martins Karsums
BOS , TBL
24
6
0.25
Lithuania [ ]
Dainius Zubrus the all-time leading point scorer from Lithuania.
Paraguay [ ]
Poland [ ]
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Mariusz Czerkawski
BOS , EDM , NYI , MTL , NYI, TOR , BOS
745
435
0.58
2
Wojtek Wolski
COL , PHX
320
211
0.66
3
Nick Harbaruk
PIT , STL
364
120
0.33
4
Joe Jerwa (D)
NYR , BOS , NYA , BOS, NYA
234
87
0.37
5
John Miszuk (D)
DET , CHI , PHI , MNS
237
46
0.19
6
Krzysztof Oliwa
NJD , CBJ , PIT , NYR , BOS , CGY , NJD
410
45
0.11
7
Peter Sidorkiewicz (G)
HAR , OTT , NJD
246
9
0.04
8
Edward Leier
CHI
16
3
0.19
Scotland [ ]
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Steve Smith (D)
EDM , CHI , CGY
804
375
0.47
2
Adam Brown
DET , CHI , BOS
391
217
0.55
3
Jim Conacher
DET , CHI , NYR
328
202
0.62
4
Tommy Anderson (D)
DET , NYA
319
189
0.59
5
Dunc Munro (D)
MTM , MTL
239
46
0.19
6
Bobby Connors
NYA , DET
78
27
0.35
7
Jim Ross (D)
NYR
62
13
0.21
8
Sandy Fitzpatrick
NYR , MNS
22
9
0.41
9
Alex Gray
NYR , TOR
50
7
0.14
10
Irv Frew (D)
MTM , SLE , MTL
96
7
0.07
Kazakhstan [ ]
Evgeni Nabokov, a goaltender, is the fifth all-time leading point scorer from Kazakhstan, although he plays internationally for Russia. One of his points comes from a goal scored during the 2001–02 season .
Switzerland [ ]
Mark Streit is the leading active Swiss point scorer.
Rank
Name
Team(s)
GP
Pts
PPG
1
Mark Hardy (D)
LAK , NYR , MNS , NYR, LAK
926
368
0.40
2
Mark Streit (D)
MTL , NYI
361
214
0.59
3
Patrick Fischer
PHX
27
10
0.37
4
Martin Gerber (G)
ANA , CAR , OTT , TOR
226
6
0.03
5
David Aebischer (G)
COL , MTL , PHX
214
5
0.02
6
Reto von Arx
CHI
19
4
0.21
7
Jonas Hiller (G)
ANA
128
3
0.02
8
Yannick Weber (D)
MTL
8
1
0.13
9
Timo Helbling (D)
TBL
11
1
0.09
10
Michel Riesen
EDM
12
1
0.08
Republic of China [ ]
Austria [ ]
Thomas Vanek is the all-time leading point scorer from Austria.
Slovenia [ ]
Anze Kopitar is the only Slovenian to ever play in the NHL.
South Korea [ ]
Ireland [ ]
Netherlands [ ]
Belarus [ ]
Ruslan Salei was the NHL's all-time leading point scorer from Belarus, until his death.
Brazil [ ]
Robyn Regehr is the all-time leading point scorer from Brazil, where his parents were missionaries.
Norway [ ]
Brunei [ ]
Wales [ ]
Venezuela [ ]
Denmark [ ]
Haiti [ ]
South Africa [ ]
Olaf Kolzig is the only player from South Africa to have played in the NHL, although he represented Germany in international competition.
Tanzania [ ]
Italy [ ]
Jamaica [ ]
Lebanon [ ]
Nigeria [ ]
Indonesia [ ]
Belgium [ ]
Japan [ ]
Bahamas [ ]
See also [ ]
Notes [ ]
↑ Petr Nedved was born in Czechoslovakia , in what is now the Czech Republic . He has represented both Canada and the Czech Republic internationally.
↑ Stan Mikita was born in Czechoslovakia , in what is now Slovakia . His family moved to Canada when he was young, and he played internationally for Canada.
↑ Peter Stastny was born in Czechoslovakia , in what is now Slovakia . He played internationally with three countries (in order): Czechoslovakia, Canada , and Slovakia.
↑ Steve Thomas was born in England , United Kingdom , but represented Canada internationally.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Brothers Eric and Gord Pettinger were born in England , United Kingdom , but grew up in Canada .
↑ Walter Jackson was born in England , United Kingdom , but grew up in Canada .
↑ Joe Hall was born in England , United Kingdom , but grew up in Canada .
↑ Peter Bondra was born in the Ukrainian SSR of the former Soviet Union . However, his family moved to their native Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia ) when he was young, and he represented Slovakia internationally.
↑ Alexei Zhitnik was born in the Ukrainian SSR of the former Soviet Union , and he represented the Soviet Union, the CIS /Unified Team , and Russia internationally.
↑ Oleg Tverdovsky was born in the Ukrainian SSR of the former Soviet Union , and represented Russia internationally.
↑ Nikolai Zherdev was born in the Ukrainian SSR of the former Soviet Union , and represents Russia internationally.
↑ Vitaly Vishnevski was born in the Ukrainian SSR of the former Soviet Union , and represents Russia internationally.
↑ Anton Babchuk was born in the Ukrainian SSR of the former Soviet Union , and represents Russia internationally.
↑ Owen Nolan was born in Northern Ireland , United Kingdom , but was raised in Canada , and played for Canada internationally.
↑ Ivan Boldirev was born in SFR Yugoslavia , in what is now Serbia . He moved to Canada in his youth.
↑ Stan Smrke was born in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , in what is now Serbia . He was raised in Canada .
↑ Walt Tkaczuk was born in Germany , but was raised in Canada .
↑ Dany Heatley was born in West Germany , in what is now Germany . He was raised in Canada and plays for Canada internationally.
↑ Willie Huber was born in West Germany , in what is now Germany . He played internationally for Canada .
↑ Randy Gilhen was born in West Germany , in what is now Germany . He was raised in Canada .
↑ Paul MacLean was born in France , but was raised in Canada .
↑ Pat Daley was born in France , but was raised in Canada .
↑ Viktor Tikhonov was born in the Latvian SSR , in what is now Latvia . He represents Russia internationally.
↑ Dainius Zubrus was born in the Lithuanian SSR , in what is now Lithuania . He has played internationally for both Russia and Lithuania.
↑ Darius Kasparaitis was born in the Lithuanian SSR , in what is now Lithuania . In international competitions, he has played for the Soviet Union , the CIS /Unified Team , and Russia .
↑ Willi Plett was born in Paraguay , but was raised in Canada .
↑ Rod Langway was born at a US military base on Taiwan , Republic of China , but represented the United States internationally.
↑ Olaf Kolzig was born in South Africa to German parents. He moved to Canada in his youth and represented Germany internationally.
Virtually all players on this list from Russia , the Ukraine , Latvia , Lithuania , and Kazakhstan were actually born in the Soviet Union —in the Russian SFSR , Ukrainian SSR , Latvian SSR , Lithuanian SSR , and Kazakh SSR respectively. The Soviet Union officially dissolved at the end of 1991. Many of these players have represented both the Soviet Union and their respective nation in international competitions. No players born strictly in Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, or Kazakhstan have yet entered the NHL.
Virtually all players on this list from the Czech Republic or Slovakia were actually born in Czechoslovakia . Czechoslovakia officially dissolved at the end of 1992. Many of these players have represented both Czechoslovakia and their respective nation in international competitions. No players born strictly in the Czech Republic or Slovakia have yet entered the NHL.
Almost every player on this list from Germany was actually born in West Germany (however, Walt Tkaczuk was born in Germany before it split into West and East). West Germany and East Germany reunited in 1990. Some of these players have represented both West Germany and Germany in international competitions. No players born strictly in Germany have yet entered the NHL.
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