Top NHL Players

Top NHL Players ranks the ten highest-scoring NHL players of every regular season since 2016-17. It is a free, static reference site built from the NHL's own published statistics.

The ten highest-scoring skaters of every NHL season since 2016-17. Click any player to highlight every season he finished in the top ten.

Season 2025-26

  1. Connor McDavid

    EDM · C

  2. Nikita Kucherov

    TBL · RW

  3. Nathan MacKinnon

    COL · C

  4. Macklin Celebrini

    SJS · C

  5. Mark Scheifele

    WPG · C

  6. Nick Suzuki

    MTL · C

  7. Martin Necas

    COL · C

  8. David Pastrnak

    BOS · RW

  9. Leon Draisaitl

    EDM · C

  10. Jason Robertson

    DAL · LW

Season 2024-25

  1. Nikita Kucherov

    TBL · RW

  2. Nathan MacKinnon

    COL · C

  3. Leon Draisaitl

    EDM · C

  4. David Pastrnak

    BOS · RW

  5. Mitch Marner

    TOR · RW

  6. Connor McDavid

    EDM · C

  7. Kyle Connor

    WPG · LW

  8. Jack Eichel

    VGK · C

  9. Cale Makar

    COL · D

  10. Sidney Crosby

    PIT · C

Season 2023-24

  1. Nikita Kucherov

    TBL · RW

  2. Nathan MacKinnon

    COL · C

  3. Connor McDavid

    EDM · C

  4. Artemi Panarin

    NYR · LW

  5. David Pastrnak

    BOS · RW

  6. Auston Matthews

    TOR · C

  7. Leon Draisaitl

    EDM · C

  8. Mikko Rantanen

    COL · RW

  9. J.T. Miller

    VAN · C

  10. William Nylander

    TOR · RW

Season 2022-23

  1. Connor McDavid

    EDM · C

  2. Leon Draisaitl

    EDM · C

  3. David Pastrnak

    BOS · RW

  4. Nikita Kucherov

    TBL · RW

  5. Nathan MacKinnon

    COL · C

  6. Jason Robertson

    DAL · LW

  7. Matthew Tkachuk

    FLA · LW

  8. Mikko Rantanen

    COL · RW

  9. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

    EDM · C

  10. Elias Pettersson

    VAN · C

Season 2021-22

  1. Connor McDavid

    EDM · C

  2. Johnny Gaudreau

    CGY · LW

  3. Jonathan Huberdeau

    FLA · LW

  4. Leon Draisaitl

    EDM · C

  5. Kirill Kaprizov

    MIN · LW

  6. Auston Matthews

    TOR · C

  7. Steven Stamkos

    TBL · C

  8. Matthew Tkachuk

    CGY · LW

  9. J.T. Miller

    VAN · C

  10. Mitch Marner

    TOR · RW

Season 2020-21

  1. Connor McDavid

    EDM · C

  2. Leon Draisaitl

    EDM · C

  3. Brad Marchand

    BOS · LW

  4. Mitch Marner

    TOR · RW

  5. Auston Matthews

    TOR · C

  6. Mikko Rantanen

    COL · RW

  7. Patrick Kane

    CHI · RW

  8. Nathan MacKinnon

    COL · C

  9. Mark Scheifele

    WPG · C

  10. Sidney Crosby

    PIT · C

Season 2019-20

  1. Leon Draisaitl

    EDM · C

  2. Connor McDavid

    EDM · C

  3. David Pastrnak

    BOS · RW

  4. Artemi Panarin

    NYR · LW

  5. Nathan MacKinnon

    COL · C

  6. Brad Marchand

    BOS · LW

  7. Nikita Kucherov

    TBL · RW

  8. Patrick Kane

    CHI · RW

  9. Auston Matthews

    TOR · C

  10. Jack Eichel

    BUF · C

Season 2018-19

  1. Nikita Kucherov

    TBL · RW

  2. Connor McDavid

    EDM · C

  3. Patrick Kane

    CHI · RW

  4. Leon Draisaitl

    EDM · C

  5. Brad Marchand

    BOS · LW

  6. Sidney Crosby

    PIT · C

  7. Nathan MacKinnon

    COL · C

  8. Johnny Gaudreau

    CGY · LW

  9. Steven Stamkos

    TBL · C

  10. Aleksander Barkov

    FLA · C

Season 2017-18

  1. Connor McDavid

    EDM · C

  2. Claude Giroux

    PHI · RW

  3. Nikita Kucherov

    TBL · RW

  4. Evgeni Malkin

    PIT · C

  5. Nathan MacKinnon

    COL · C

  6. Taylor Hall

    NJD · LW

  7. Anze Kopitar

    LAK · C

  8. Phil Kessel

    PIT · RW

  9. Blake Wheeler

    WPG · RW

  10. Sidney Crosby

    PIT · C

Season 2016-17

  1. Connor McDavid

    EDM · C

  2. Sidney Crosby

    PIT · C

  3. Patrick Kane

    CHI · RW

  4. Nicklas Backstrom

    WSH · C

  5. Nikita Kucherov

    TBL · RW

  6. Brad Marchand

    BOS · LW

  7. Mark Scheifele

    WPG · C

  8. Leon Draisaitl

    EDM · C

  9. Brent Burns

    SJS · D

  10. Vladimir Tarasenko

    STL · RW

How these rankings work

Every skater in the league is eligible; goaltenders are excluded. Skaters are ranked by points — goals plus assists. Ties are broken by goals, then by fewer games played. Only NHL regular season games count — playoffs, preseason and all-star games are excluded. A player traded mid-season keeps his full-season total, and every team he played for that year is listed on his card.

Figures come from the NHL's public statistics API — the same source behind NHL.com — and are baked into this page when it is built, so nothing is fetched while you read it. The data shown was pulled on and covers the 10 completed regular seasons from 2016-17 to 2025-26.

This site also ranks goals, assists, forwards, defensemen, goalies, power-play goals and game-winning goals, season by season.

Questions

Who had the most points in a single season?

Connor McDavid — 153 points in the 2022-23 regular season, the highest single-season total on this page since 2016-17.

Which player appears most often in these top tens?

Connor McDavid, with 10 top-ten finishes in the 10 seasons from 2016-17 to 2025-26.

How many different players have finished in a top ten since 2016-17?

39 — out of 100 top-ten places across 10 seasons.

Do these totals include the playoffs?

No. Every number on this site is regular season only. Playoff points are excluded.

Where does the data come from?

The NHL's own public statistics API (api.nhle.com), the same source that feeds NHL.com. Nothing here is estimated or projected.

How often is it updated?

Once per year, after each NHL regular season finishes. The data currently shown was pulled on 2026-08-23 and covers through the 2025-26 season.