List of NHL statistical leaders by country of birth

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 2024–25 NHL season and players currently playing in the National Hockey League are marked in boldface.

All players are listed by the current country of the players' birth location, regardless of their citizenship, where they were trained in hockey or what country they represented internationally.

Contents

Contents

1 Country

Canada Czech Republic Russia Slovakia Finland United States Sweden Slovenia Germany United Kingdom Ukraine Serbia Austria Switzerland Norway France Lithuania Latvia Denmark Kazakhstan Paraguay Poland Taiwan South Korea Belarus Netherlands Brazil Estonia Brunei Italy Venezuela Uzbekistan Australia Haiti South Africa Tanzania Jamaica Lebanon Bulgaria Japan Nigeria Indonesia Belgium Croatia Bahamas

2 Notes 3 See also 4 External links

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	1,487	2,857	1.92
2	Mark Messier	EDM, NYR, VAN, NYR	1,756	1,887	1.07
3	Gordie Howe	DET, HFD	1,767	1,850	1.05
4	Ron Francis	HFD, PIT, CAR, TOR	1,731	1,798	1.04
5	Marcel Dionne	DET, LAK, NYR	1,348	1,771	1.31
6	Steve Yzerman	DET	1,514	1,755	1.16
7	Mario Lemieux	PIT	915	1,723	1.88
8	Sidney Crosby	PIT	1,352	1,687	1.25
9	Joe Sakic	QUE, COL	1,378	1,641	1.19
10	Phil Esposito	CHI, BOS, NYR	1,282	1,590	1.24

Czech Republic

Jaromir Jagr has the second most points in NHL history.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Jaromir Jagr	PIT, WSH, NYR, PHI, DAL, BOS, NJD, FLA, CGY	1,733	1,921	1.11
2	Patrik Elias	NJD	1,240	1,025	0.83
3	David Pastrnak	BOS	756	833	1.10
4	Jakub Voracek	CBJ, PHI, CBJ	1,058	806	0.76
5	Milan Hejduk	COL	1,020	805	0.79
6	David Krejci	BOS	1,032	786	0.76
7	Vaclav Prospal	PHI, OTT, FLA, TBL, ANA, TBL, PHI, NYR, CBJ	1,108	765	0.69
8	Bobby Holik	HFD, NJD, NYR, ATL, NJD	1,314	747	0.57
9	Petr Sykora	NJD, ANA, NYR, EDM, PIT, MIN, NJD	1,017	721	0.71
10	Martin Straka	PIT, OTT, NYI, FLA, PIT, LAK, NYR	954	717	0.75

Russia

Alexander Ovechkin is Russia's all-time leading point scorer.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Alexander Ovechkin	WSH	1,491	1,623	1.09
2	Evgeni Malkin	PIT	1,213	1,346	1.11
3	Sergei Fedorov	DET, ANA, CBJ, WSH	1,248	1,179	0.94
4	Alexander Mogilny	BUF, VAN, NJD, TOR, NJD	990	1,032	1.04
5	Alexei Kovalev	NYR, PIT, NYR, MTL, OTT, PIT, FLA	1,316	1,029	0.78
6	Nikita Kucherov	TBL	803	994	1.24
7	Pavel Datsyuk	DET	953	918	0.96
8	Ilya Kovalchuk	ATL, NJD, LAK, MTL, WSH	926	876	0.95
9	Artemi Panarin	CHI, CBJ, NYR	752	870	1.16
10	Vyacheslav Kozlov	DET, BUF, ATL	1,182	853	0.72

Slovakia

Marian Hossa is the third highest Slovak point scorer.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Stan Mikita[1]	CHI	1,394	1,467	1.05
2	Peter Stastny[2]	QUE, NJD, STL	977	1,239	1.27
3	Marian Hossa	OTT, ATL, PIT, DET, CHI	1,309	1,134	0.87
4	Marian Gaborik	MIN, NYR, CBJ, LAK, OTT	1,035	815	0.79
5	Pavol Demitra	OTT, STL, LAK, MIN, VAN	847	768	0.91
6	Miroslav Satan	EDM, BUF, NYI, PIT, BOS	1,050	735	0.70
7	Zigmund Palffy	NYI, LAK, PIT	684	713	1.04
8	Zdeno Chara (D)	NYI, OTT, BOS, WSH, NYI	1,680	680	0.40
9	Jozef Stumpel	BOS, LAK, BOS, LAK, FLA	957	677	0.71
10	Anton Stastny	QUE	650	636	0.98

Finland

Teemu Selanne is Finland's all-time leading point scorer.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Teemu Selanne	WIN, ANA, SJS, COL, ANA	1,451	1,457	1.00
2	Jari Kurri	EDM, LAK, NYR, ANA, COL	1,251	1,398	1.12
3	Tomas Sandstrom[3]	NYR, LAK, PIT, DET, ANA	983	856	0.87
4	Saku Koivu	MTL, ANA	1,124	832	0.74
5	Aleksander Barkov	FLA	804	782	0.97
6	Olli Jokinen	LAK, NYI, FLA, PHX, CGY, NYR, CGY, WPG, NSH, TOR, STL	1,231	750	0.61
7	Mikko Koivu	MIN, CBJ	1,035	711	0.69
8	Mikko Rantanen	COL, CAR, DAL	652	705	1.08
9	Teppo Numminen (D)	WIN, PHX, DAL, BUF	1,372	637	0.46
10	Sebastian Aho	CAR	677	631	0.93

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, DET	1,499	1,374	0.92
2	Patrick Kane	CHI, NYR, DET	1,302	1,343	1.03
3	Phil Housley (D)	BUF, WIN, STL, CGY, NJD, WSH, CGY, CHI, TOR	1,495	1,232	0.82
4	Jeremy Roenick	CHI, PHX, PHI, LAK, PHX, SJS	1,363	1,216	0.89
5	Joe Pavelski	SJS, DAL	1,332	1,068	0.80
6	Keith Tkachuk	WIN, PHX, STL, ATL, STL	1,201	1,065	0.89
7	Joe Mullen	STL, CGY, PIT, BOS, PIT	1,062	1,063	1.00
8	Doug Weight	NYR, EDM, STL, CAR, STL, ANA, NYI	1,238	1,033	0.83
9	Brian Leetch (D)	NYR, TOR, BOS	1,205	1,028	0.85
10	Pat LaFontaine	NYI, BUF, NYR	865	1,013	1.17

Sweden

Nicklas Lidstrom is Sweden's third all-time leading point scorer.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Mats Sundin	QUE, TOR, VAN	1,346	1,349	1.00
2	Daniel Alfredsson	OTT, DET	1,246	1,157	0.93
3	Nicklas Lidstrom (D)	DET	1,564	1,142	0.73
4	Henrik Sedin	VAN	1,330	1,070	0.80
5	Daniel Sedin	VAN	1,306	1,041	0.80
6	Nicklas Backstrom	WSH	1,105	1,033	0.93
7	Henrik Zetterberg	DET	1,082	960	0.89
8	Peter Forsberg	QUE, COL, PHI, NSH, COL	708	885	1.25
9	Erik Karlsson (D)	OTT, SJS, PIT	1,084	870	0.80
10	Markus Naslund	PIT, VAN, NYR	1,117	869	0.78

Slovenia

Anze Kopitar is the first Slovenian to play in the NHL.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Anze Kopitar[4]	LAK	1,453	1,278	0.88
2	Jan Mursak[5]	DET	46	4	0.09

Germany

Dany Heatley is the second highest point scorer born in Germany, although he played internationally for Canada.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Leon Draisaitl	EDM	790	956	1.21
2	Dany Heatley[6]	ATL, OTT, SJS, MIN, ANA	869	791	0.91
3	Walt Tkaczuk[7]	NYR	945	678	0.72
4	Marco Sturm	SJS, BOS, LAK, WSH, VAN, FLA	938	487	0.52
5	Jochen Hecht	STL, EDM, BUF	833	463	0.56
6	Christian Ehrhoff (D)	SJS, VAN, BUF, PIT, LAK, CHI	789	339	0.43
7	Tim Stutzle	OTT	367	326	0.89
8	Willie Huber[8] (D)	DET, NYR, VAN, PHI	655	321	0.49
9	Mikhail Grabovski[9]	MTL, TOR, WSH, NYI	534	296	0.55
10	Uwe Krupp (D)	BUF, NYI, QUE, COL, DET, ATL	729	281	0.39

United Kingdom

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Steve Thomas[10]	TOR, CHI, NYI, NJD, TOR, CHI, ANA, DET	1,235	933	0.76
2	Owen Nolan[11]	QUE, COL, SJS, TOR, PHX, CGY, MIN	1,200	885	0.74
3	Ken Hodge[12]	CHI, BOS, NYR	881	800	0.91
4	Steve Smith[13] (D)	EDM, CHI, CGY	804	375	0.47
5	Peter Lee[14]	PIT	431	245	0.57
6	Jim McFadden[15]	DET, CHI	412	226	0.55
7	Adam Brown[16]	DET, CHI, BOS	391	217	0.55
8	Jim Conacher[17]	DET, CHI, NYR	328	202	0.62
9	Tommy Anderson[18]	DET, NYA	319	189	0.59
10	Red Beattie[19]	BOS, DET, NYA	334	147	0.44

Ukraine

Ruslan Fedotenko is the fifth all-time leading scorer from Ukraine.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Peter Bondra[20]	WSH, OTT, ATL, CHI	1,081	892	0.83
2	Dmitri Khristich	WSH, LAK, BOS, TOR, WSH	811	596	0.73
3	Alexei Zhitnik[21] (D)	LAK, BUF, NYI, PHI, ATL	1,085	471	0.43
4	Johnny Gottselig[22]	CHI	589	371	0.63
5	Ruslan Fedotenko	PHI, TBL, NYI, PIT, NYR, PHI	863	366	0.42
6	Alexei Ponikarovsky	TOR, PIT, LAK, CAR, NJD, WPG, NJD	678	323	0.48
7	Oleg Tverdovsky[23] (D)	ANA, WIN, PHX, ANA, NJD, CAR, LAK	713	317	0.44
8	Nikolay Zherdev[24]	CBJ, NYR, PHI	421	261	0.62
9	Anton Babchuk[25] (D)	CHI, CAR, CGY	289	107	0.37
10	Vitaly Vishnevskiy[26] (D)	ANA, ATL, NSH, NJD	552	68	0.12

Serbia

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Ivan Boldirev[27]	BOS, CGS, CHI, AFM, VAN, DET	1,052	866	0.82
2	Stan Smrke[28]	MTL	9	3	0.33

Austria

Thomas Vanek is the all-time leading point scorer from Austria.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Thomas Vanek	BUF, NYI, MTL, MIN, DET, FLA, VAN, CBJ, DET	1,029	789	0.77
2	Andre Burakovsky[29]	WSH, COL, SEA	696	387	0.56
3	Michael Grabner	VAN, NYI, TOR, NYR, NJD, ARI	640	276	0.43
4	Michael Raffl	PHI, WSH, DAL	590	179	0.30
5	Marco Rossi	MIN	185	101	0.55
6	Marco Kasper	DET	78	37	0.47
7	Marko Dano[30]	CBJ, CHI, WPG, COL, CBJ	141	45	0.32
8	Andreas Nodl	PHI, CAR	183	36	0.20
9	Thomas Pock (D)	NYR, NYI	118	17	0.14
10	Christoph Brandner	MIN	35	9	0.14

Switzerland

Roman Josi is the all-time leading point scorer from Switzerland.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Roman Josi (D)	NSH	962	724	0.75
2	Kevin Fiala	NSH, MIN, LAK	651	488	0.75
3	Nino Niederreiter	NYI, MIN, CAR, NSH, WPG	969	480	0.50
4	Timo Meier	SJS, NJD	621	435	0.70
5	Mark Streit (D)	MTL, NYI, PHI, PIT, MTL	786	434	0.55
6	Nico Hischier	NJD	527	422	0.80
7	Mark Hardy[31] (D)	LAK, NYR, MNS, NYR, LAK	926	368	0.40
8	Pius Suter	CHI, DET, VAN	364	162	0.45
9	Mason McTavish[32]	ANA	229	140	0.61
10	Sven Baertschi	CGY, VAN, VGK	292	138	0.47

Norway

Mats Zuccarello is Norway's all-time leading point scorer.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Mats Zuccarello	NYR, DAL, MIN	904	690	0.76
2	Espen Knutsen	ANA, CBJ	207	111	0.54
3	Patrick Thoresen	EDM, PHI	106	24	0.23
4	Emil Lilleberg (D)	TBL	113	24	0.21
5	Andreas Martinsen	COL, MTL, CHI	152	23	0.15
6	Ole-Kristian Tollefsen (D)	CBJ, PHI, DET	163	12	0.07
7	Jonas Holos (D)	COL	39	6	0.15
8	Anders Myrvold (D)	COL, BOS, NYI, DET	33	5	0.15

France

Alexandre Texier is the fourth highest French-born point scorer, and the highest active player.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Paul MacLean[33]	STL, WIN, DET, STL	719	673	0.94
2	Antoine Roussel	DAL, VAN, ARI	607	197	0.32
3	Pierre-Edouard Bellemare	PHI, VGK, COL, TBL, SEA	699	138	0.20
4	Alexandre Texier	CBJ, STL	232	90	0.39
5	Philippe Bozon	STL	144	41	0.28
6	Xavier Ouellet[34] (D)	DET, MTL	178	28	0.16
7	Yohann Auvitu	NJD, EDM	58	13	0.22
8	Stephane Da Costa	OTT	47	11	0.23
9	Bo Groulx[35]	ANA	65	5	0.08
10	Kalle Kossila[36]	ANA	19	3	0.16

Lithuania

Dainius Zubrus is the all-time leading point scorer from Lithuania.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Dainius Zubrus[37]	PHI, MTL, WSH, BUF, NJD, SJS	1,293	591	0.46
2	Darius Kasparaitis[38] (D)	NYI, PIT, COL, NYR	863	163	0.19

Latvia

Karlis Skrastins is Latvia's fourth all-time leading point scorer.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Sandis Ozolinsh[39] (D)	SJS, COL, CAR, FLA, ANA, NYR, SJS	875	564	0.64
2	Sergei Zholtok[40]	BOS, OTT, MTL, EDM, MIN, NSH	588	258	0.44
3	Zemgus Girgensons	BUF, TBL	770	194	0.25
4	Teddy Blueger	PIT, VGK, VAN	418	152	0.36
5	Karlis Skrastins (D)	NSH, COL, FLA, DAL	832	136	0.16
6	Uvis Balinskis (D)	FLA	102	21	0.21
7	Rudolfs Balcers	OTT, SJS, FLA, TBL	170	62	0.36
8	Viktor Tikhonov[41]	PHX, CHI, ARI	111	22	0.20
9	Raitis Ivanans	MTL, LAK, CGY	282	18	0.06
10	Herberts Vasiljevs	FLA, ATL, VAN	51	15	0.29

Denmark

Frans Nielsen is the second-highest scorer from Denmark.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Nikolaj Ehlers	WPG, CAR	674	520	0.77
2	Frans Nielsen	NYI, DET	925	473	0.51
3	Lars Eller	STL, MTL, WSH, COL, PIT, WSH	1,116	424	0.38
4	Oliver Bjorkstrand	CBJ, SEA, TBL	624	384	0.62
5	Mikkel Boedker	ARI, COL, SJS, OTT	709	327	0.46
6	Jannik Hansen	VAN, SJS	626	256	0.41
7	Peter Regin	OTT, NYI, CHI	243	67	0.28
8	Poul Popiel[42] (D)	BOS, LAK, DET, VAN, EDM	224	54	0.24
9	Philip Larsen (D)	DAL, EDM, VAN	150	37	0.25
10	Frederik Andersen (G)	ANA, TOR, CAR	517	16	0.03

Kazakhstan

Evgeni Nabokov, a goaltender, is the fourth all-time leading point scorer from Kazakhstan. Although he played internationally for Russia, he started his junior career in Kazakhstan. One of his points comes from a goal scored during the 2001–02 season.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Nik Antropov	TOR, NYR, ATL, WPG	788	465	0.59
2	Alexander Perezhogin[43]	MTL	128	34	0.27
3	Pavel Vorobyev[44]	CHI	57	25	0.44
4	Evgeni Nabokov[45] (G)	SJS, NYI, TBL	697	15	0.02
5	Viktor Antipin[46] (D)	BUF	47	10	0.21
6	Maxim Kuznetsov (D)	DET, LAK	136	10	0.07
7	Anton Khudobin[47] (G)	MIN, BOS, CAR, ANA, BOS, DAL, CHI	260	8	0.03
8	Konstantin Pushkarev	LAK	17	5	0.29
9	Konstantin Shafranov	STL	5	3	0.60
10	Vitali Kolesnik (G)	COL	8	1	0.13

Paraguay

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Willi Plett[48]	AFM, CGY, MNS, BOS	834	437	0.52

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[49]	COL, PHX, NYR, FLA, WSH	451	267	0.59
3	Nick Harbaruk[50]	PIT, STL	364	120	0.33
4	Joe Jerwa[51] (D)	NYR, BOS, NYA, BOS, NYA	234	87	0.37
5	Krzysztof Oliwa	NJD, CBJ, PIT, NYR, BOS, CGY, NJD	410	45	0.11
6	Peter Sidorkiewicz[52] (G)	HFD, OTT, NJD	246	9	0.04
7	Edward Leier[53]	CHI	16	3	0.19

Taiwan

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Rod Langway[54] (D)	MTL, WSH	994	329	0.33

South Korea

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Richard Park[55]	PIT, ANA, PHI, MIN, VAN, NYI, PIT	738	241	0.33
2	Jim Paek[56] (D)	PIT, LAK, OTT	217	34	0.16

Belarus

Ruslan Salei was the NHL's all-time leading point scorer from Belarus at the time of his death.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Andrei Kostitsyn	MTL, NSH	398	222	0.56
2	Ruslan Salei (D)	ANA, FLA, COL, DET	917	204	0.22
3	Yegor Sharangovich	NJD, CGY	360	197	0.55
4	Sergei Kostitsyn	MTL, NSH	353	176	0.50
5	Aliaksei Protas	WSH	245	119	0.49
6	John Miszuk[57] (D)	DET, CHI, PHI, MNS	237	46	0.19
7	Konstantin Koltsov	PIT	144	38	0.26
8	Sergei Bautin[58] (D)	WIN, DET, SJS	132	30	0.23
9	Vladislav Kolyachonok (D)	ARI, UTA, PIT	74	14	0.19
10	Artyom Levshunov (D)	CHI	18	6	0.33

Netherlands

Daniel Sprong is the third Dutch-born player to play in the NHL, and the first one selected in the NHL Entry Draft.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Ed Beers[59]	CGY, STL	250	210	0.84
2	Ed Kea[60] (D)	AFM, STL	583	175	0.30
3	Daniel Sprong[61]	PIT, ANA, WSH, SEA, DET, VAN, SEA, NJD	374	166	0.44

Brazil

Robyn Regehr is the all-time leading point scorer from Brazil, where his parents were missionaries.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Robyn Regehr[62] (D)	CGY, BUF, LAK	1,090	199	0.18
2	Mike Greenlay[63] (G)	EDM	2	1	0.50

Estonia

Leo Komarov is the only NHL player to be born in Estonia, though he represents Finland in international competition.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Leo Komarov[64]	TOR, NYI	491	170	0.35

Brunei

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Craig Adams[65]	CAR, CHI, PIT	951	160	0.17

Italy

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Luca Sbisa[66] (D)	PHI, ANA, VAN, VGK, NYI, WPG, NSH	549	113	0.21
2	Nelson Debenedet[67] (D)	DET, PIT	46	14	0.30

Venezuela

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Rick Chartraw[68] (D)	MTL, LAK, NYR, EDM	420	92	0.22
2	Don Spring[69] (D)	WIN	259	55	0.21

Uzbekistan

Arthur Kaliyev is the leading scorer from players born in Uzbekistan. He moved to the United States as a child and represents them in international competition.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Arthur Kaliyev[70]	LAK, NYR	202	75	0.37
2	Maxim Mayorov[71]	CBJ	22	3	0.14

Australia

Jordan Spence is first player born in Australia to play in the NHL, although he represents Canada in international competition.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Jordan Spence[72] (D)	LAK	180	61	0.34

Haiti

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Claude Vilgrain[73]	VAN, NJD, PHI	89	53	0.60

South Africa

Olaf Kolzig is the only player from South Africa to have played in the NHL, although he represented Germany in international competition.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Olaf Kolzig[74] (G)	WSH, TBL	719	17	0.02

Tanzania

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Chris Nielsen[75]	CBJ	52	14	0.27

Jamaica

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Graeme Townshend[76]	BOS, NYI, OTT	45	10	0.22

Lebanon

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Ed Hatoum[77]	DET, VAN	47	9	0.19

Bulgaria

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Alexandar Georgiev[78] (G)	NYR, COL, SJS	303	8	0.03

Japan

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Ryan O'Marra[79]	EDM, ANA	33	7	0.21

Nigeria

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Rumun Ndur[80] (D)	BUF, NYR, ATL	69	5	0.07
2	Akim Aliu[81]	CGY	7	3	0.43

Indonesia

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Richie Regehr[62] (D)	CGY	20	4	0.20

Belgium

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Jan Benda[82]	WSH	9	3	0.33

Croatia

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Borna Rendulic	COL, VAN	15	2	0.13

Bahamas

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	Pts	PPG
1	Andre Deveaux[83]	TOR, NYR	31	2	0.06