List of NHL statistical leaders by country

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This is a list of NHL statistical leaders by country of birth, sorted by total points. The top players from each country are included. Statistics are current through the 2005-06 NHL season and players currently active are marked with an asterisk.

All players are listed strictly by their country of birth, regardless of their citizenship, following Hockey Hall of Fame convention.

Contents 1 Birth Country 1.1 Canada 1.2 Czech Republic 1.3 Slovakia 1.4 Finland 1.5 United States 1.6 Sweden 1.7 Russia 1.8 England 1.9 Ukraine 1.10 Serbia 1.11 Northern Ireland 1.12 Germany 1.13 France 1.14 Latvia 1.15 Paraguay 1.16 Poland 1.17 Scotland 1.18 Switzerland 1.19 Lithuania 1.20 Taiwan 1.21 The Netherlands 1.22 Kazakhstan 1.23 Belarus 1.24 South Korea 1.25 Norway 1.26 Wales 1.27 Venezuela 1.28 Austria 1.29 Brazil 1.30 Brunei 1.31 Denmark 1.32 Haiti 1.33 Slovenia 1.34 Italy 1.35 Tanzania 1.36 South Africa 1.37 Jamaica 1.38 Lebanon 1.39 Nigeria 1.40 Indonesia 1.41 Belgium 2 Players origins 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Birth Country

[edit] Canada

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Wayne Gretzky	EDM, LAK, STL, NYR	1487	2857	1.92
2	Mark Messier	EDM, NYR, VAN	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	Phil Esposito	CHI, BOS, NYR	1282	1590	1.24
9	Ray Bourque	BOS, COL	1612	1579	0.98
10	Joe Sakic*	QUE, COL	1287	1544	1.20

[edit] Czech Republic

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Jaromir Jagr*	PIT, WAS, NYR	1134	1469	1.30
2	Petr Nedved*	VAN, STL, NYR, PIT, EDM, PHO, PHI	942	705	0.75
3	Bobby Holik*	HAR, NJD, NYR, ATL	1088	680	0.62
4	Martin Straka*	PIT, OTT, NYI, FLA, LAK, NYR	837	634	0.76
5	Robert Reichel*	CGY, NYI, PHO,TOR	830	630	0.76
6	Michal Pivonka	WAS	825	599	0.73
7	Martin Rucinsky*	QUE, COL, MTL, DAL, NYR, STL, VAN	893	578	0.65
8	Petr Klima	DET, EDM, TAM, LAK, PIT	786	574	0.73
9	Robert Lang*	LAK, BOS, PIT, WAS, DET	749	552	0.74
10	Patrick Elias*	NJD	637	544	0.85

[edit] Slovakia

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Stan Mikita	CHI	1394	1467	1.05
2	Peter Stastny	QUE, NJD, STL	977	1239	1.27
3	Zigmund Palffy	NYI, LAK, PIT	684	713	1.04
4	Anton Stastny	QUE	650	636	0.98
5	Jozef Stumpel*	BOS, LAK, FLA	867	621	0.72
6	Miroslav Satan*	EDM, BUF, NYI	817	608	0.74
7	Pavol Demitra*	OTT, STL, LAK, MIN,	635	600	0.94
8	Marian Hossa*	OTT, ATL	574	521	0.91
9	Robert Svehla	FLA, TOR	655	335	0.51
10	Richard Zednik*	WAS, MTL, NYI	590	305	0.52

[edit] Finland

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Jari Kurri	EDM, LAK, NYR, ANA, COL	1251	1398	1.12
2	Teemu Selänne*	WIN, ANA, SJS, COL	1011	1103	1.09
3	Tomas Sandström	NYR, LAK, PIT, DET, ANA	983	856	0.87
4	Esa Tikkanen	EDM, NYR, STL, NJD, VAN, FLA, WAS	877	630	0.72
5	Teppo Numminen*	WIN, PHO, DAL, BUF	1285	607	0.48
6	Saku Koivu*	MTL	581	471	0.81
7	Jyrki Lumme	MTL, VAN, PHO, DAL, TOR	985	468	0.48
8	Sami Kapanen*	HAR, CAR, PHI	718	436	0.61
9	Christian Ruuttu	BUF, CHI, VAN	621	432	0.70
10	Ilkka Sinisalo	PHI, MIN, LAK	582	426	0.73

[edit] United States

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Phil Housley	BUF, WIN, STL, CGY, NJD, WAS, CHI, TOR	1495	1232	0.82
2	Mike Modano*	MIN, DAL	1179	1183	1.00
3	Jeremy Roenick*	CHI, PHO, PHI, LAK	1182	1142	0.97
4	Joe Mullen	STL, CGY, PIT,BOS	1062	1063	1.00
5	Brian Leetch*	NYR, TOR, BOS	1205	1028	0.85
6	Pat LaFontaine	NYI, BUF, NYR	865	1013	1.17
7	Chris Chelios*	MTL, CHI, DET	1476	925	0.63
8	Neal Broten	MIN, DAL, NJD, LAK	1099	923	0.84
9	Doug Weight*	NYR, EDM, STL, CAR	1001	894	0.89
10	Tony Amonte*	NYR, CHI, PHO, PHI, CGY	1110	878	0.79

[edit] Sweden

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Mats Sundin*	QUE, TOR	1183	1196	1.01
2	Peter Forsberg*	QUE, COL, PHI, NAS	663	833	1.26
3	Nicklas Lidström*	DET	1127	833	0.74
4	Thomas Steen	WIN	950	817	0.86
5	Börje Salming	TOR, DET	1148	787	0.69
6	Markus Näslund*	PIT, VAN	888	720	0.81
7	Daniel Alfredsson*	OTT	732	693	0.95
8	Kent Nilsson	ATL, CGY, MIN, EDM	553	686	1.24
9	Ulf Dahlén	NYR, MIN, DAL, SJS, CHI, WAS	966	655	0.68
10	Mats Näslund	MTL, BOS	651	634	0.97

[edit] Russia

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Sergei Fedorov*	DET, ANA, CBJ	1080	1082	1.00
2	Alexander Mogilny	BUF, VAN, NJD, TOR	990	1032	1.04
3	Pavel Bure	VAN, FLA, NYR	702	779	1.11
4	Alexei Kovalev*	NYR, PIT, MTL	950	769	0.81
5	Alexei Yashin*	OTT, NYI	815	760	0.93
6	Alexei Zhamnov	WIN, CHI, PHI, BOS	807	719	0.89
7	Sergei Zubov*	NYR, PIT, DAL	967	700	0.72
8	Vyacheslav Kozlov*	DET, BUF, ATL	925	675	0.73
9	Igor Larionov	VAN, SJS, DET, NJD	921	644	0.70
10	Sergei Gonchar*	WAS, BOS,PIT	783	514	0.66

[edit] England

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Steve Thomas	TOR, CHI, NYI, NJD, 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	NYR, DET, BOS	292	116	0.40
6	Alex Smith	OTT, DET, BOS, NYA	443	91	0.21
7	Brian Perry	OAK, BUF	96	45	0.47
8	Walter Jackson	NYA, BOS	84	27	0.32
9	Joe Hall	MTL	38	23	0.61
10	Eric Pettinger	BOS, TOR, OTT	98	19	0.19

[edit] Ukraine

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Peter Bondra*	WAS, OTT, ATL, CHI	1047	880	0.84
2	Dmitri Khristich	WAS, LAK, BOS, TOR	811	597	0.74
3	Alexei Zhitnik*	LAK, BUF, NYI, PHI	941	425	0.45
4	Oleg Tverdovsky*	ANA, PHO, NJD, CAR, LAK	687	313	0.46
5	Ruslan Fedotenko*	PHI, TAM	365	161	0.44
6	Nikolai Zherdev*	CBJ	155	100	0.65
7	Alexei Ponikarovsky*	TOR	231	99	0.43
8	Vitaly Vishnevski*	ANA, ATL	443	54	0.12
9	Alexander Godynyuk	TOR, CGY, FLA, HAR	223	49	0.22
10	Ilya Byakin	EDM, SJS	57	33	0.58

[edit] Serbia

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Ivan Boldirev	BOS, OAK, CHI, ATL, VAN, DET	1052	866	0.82
2	Stan Smrke	MTL	9	3	0.33

[edit] Northern Ireland

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Owen Nolan*	QUE, COL, SJS, TOR, PHO	947	752	0.79
2	Jim McFadden	DET, CHI	412	226	0.55
3	Jack Riley	DET, MTL, BOS	104	32	0.31
4	Sid Finney	CHI	59	17	0.29
5	Bobby Kirk	NYR	39	12	0.31
6	Sammy McManus	MTL, BOS	26	1	0.04

[edit] Germany

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Walt Tkaczuk	NYR	945	678	0.72
2	Dany Heatley*	ATL, OTT	306	337	1.07
3	Marco Sturm*	SJS, BOS	639	335	0.52
4	Willie Huber	DET, NYR, VAN, PHI	655	321	0.49
5	Uwe Krupp	BUF, NYI, QUE, COL, DET, ATL	729	281	0.39
6	Jochen Hecht*	STL, EDM, BUF	436	261	0.60
7	Randy Gilhen	WIN, PIT, LAK, NYR, TAM, FLA	457	115	0.25
8	Brian Glynn	CGY, MIN, EDM, OTT, VAN, HAR	431	104	0.24
9	Uli Hiemer	NJD	143	73	0.51
10	Christian Ehrhoff*	SJS	147	54	0.37

[edit] France

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Paul MacLean	STL, WIN, DET	719	673	0.94
2	Philippe Bozon	STL	144	41	0.28
3	Pat Daley	WIN	12	1	0.08
4	Cristobal Huet(G)*	LAK, MTL	129	1	0.01

[edit] Latvia

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Sandis Ozolinsh*	SJS, COL, CAR, FLA, ANA, NYR	815	545	0.67
2	Sergei Zholtok	BOS, OTT, MTL, EDM, MIN, NAS	588	258	0.44
3	Karlis Skrastins*	NAS, COL	471	81	0.17
4	Herberts Vasiljevs	ATL, VAN, FLA	51	15	0.29
5	Helmuts Balderis	MIN	26	9	0.35
6	Arturs Irbe(G)	SJS, DAL, VAN, CAR	568	9	0.02
7	Raitis Ivanans*	MTL, LAK	27	3	0.11
8	Kaspars Astashenko	TAM	23	3	0.13
9	Peter Skudra(G)	PIT, BUF, VAN	146	2	0.01
10	Victor Ignatjev	PIT	11	1	0.09

[edit] Paraguay

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Willi Plett	ATL, CGY, MIN, BOS	834	437	0.52

[edit] Poland

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Mariusz Czerkawski	BOS, EDM, NYI, MTL, TOR	745	435	0.58
2	Nick Harbaruk	PIT, STL	364	120	0.33
3	John Miszuk	DET, CHI, PHI, MIN	237	46	0.19
4	Krzysztof Oliwa	NJD, PIT, CBJ, BOS, NYR, CGY	410	45	0.11
5	Wojtek Wolski*	COL	40	27	0.68
6	Peter Sidorkiewicz(G)	HAR, OTT, NJD	246	9	0.03

[edit] Scotland

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Steve Smith	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	DET, NYA	319	189	0.59
5	Dunc Munro	MTL, MTL	239	46	0.19
6	Bob Connors	NYA, DET	78	27	0.34
7	Jim Ross	NYR	62	13	0.21
8	Sandy Fitzpatrick	NYR, MIN	22	9	0.41
9	Alex Gray	NYR, TOR	50	7	0.14
10	Irv Frew	MON, STL, MTL	96	7	0.07

[edit] Switzerland

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Mark Hardy	LAK, MIN, NYR	926	368	0.40
2	Mark Streit*	MTL	74	22	0.30
3	Patrick Fischer*	PHO	20	9	0.45
4	David Aebischer*(G)	COL, MTL	181	5	0.03
5	Reto Von Arx	CHI	19	4	0.21
6	Martin Gerber*(G)	ANA, CAR, OTT	174	3	0.02
7	Timo Helbling*	TAM	9	1	0.11
8	Michel Riesen	EDM	12	1	0.08

[edit] Lithuania

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Dainius Zubrus*	PHI, MTL, WAS	639	329	0.51
2	Darius Kasparaitis*	NYI, COL, PIT, NYR	845	160	0.19

[edit] Taiwan

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Rod Langway	MON, WAS	994	329	0.33

[edit] The Netherlands

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Ed Kea	ATL, STL	583	175	0.30

[edit] Kazakhstan

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Nikolai Antropov*	TOR	338	167	0.49
2	Alexander Perezhogin*	MTL	91	26	0.29
3	Pavel Vorobiev	CHI	57	25	0.48
4	Maxim Kuznetsov	DET, LAK	136	10	0.07
5	Evgeni Nabokov*(G)	SJS	303	10	0.03
6	Vitaly Kolesnik*(G)	COL	8	1	0.13
7	Konstantin Pushkarev*	LAK	1	1	1.00

[edit] Belarus

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Ruslan Salei*	ANA	629	128	0.20
2	Konstantin Koltsov	PIT	60	9	0.15
3	Andrei Kostitsyn*	MTL	12	3	0.25

[edit] South Korea

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Richard Park*	PIT, ANA, PHI, MIN, VAN. NYI	399	118	0.30
2	Jim Paek	PIT, LAK, OTT	217	34	0.16

[edit] Norway

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Espen Knutsen	ANA, CBJ	207	111	0.54
2	Patrick Thoresen*	EDM	22	9	0.41
3	Anders Myrvold	COL, BOS, NYI, DET	33	5	0.15
4	Ole-Kristian Tollefsen*	CBJ	28	1	0.04

[edit] Wales

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Jack Evans	NYR, CHI	752	99	0.13
2	Cy Thomas	CHI, TOR	14	4	0.29

[edit] Venezuela

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Rick Chartraw	MTL, LAK, NYR, EDM	420	93	0.22
2	Don Spring	WIN	259	55	0.21

[edit] Austria

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Thomas Vanek*	BUF	123	92	0.75
2	Christoph Brandner	MIN	35	9	0.26
3	Thomas Pock*	NYR	28	8	0.29

[edit] Brazil

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Robyn Regehr*	CGY	471	91	0.19
2	Mike Greenlay(G)	EDM	2	1	0.5

[edit] Brunei

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Craig Adams*	CAR	332	64	0.19

[edit] Denmark

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Poul Popiel	BOS, LAK, DET, VAN, EDM	224	54	0.24
2	Frans Nielsen*	NYI	14	2	0.14

[edit] Haiti

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Claude Vilgrain	VAN, NJD	89	53	0.60

[edit] Slovenia

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Anze Kopitar*	LAK	61	54	0.89

[edit] Italy

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Nelson Debenedet	DET, PIT	46	14	0.30

[edit] Tanzania

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Chris Nielsen	CBJ	52	14	0.27

[edit] South Africa

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Olaf Kölzig*(G)	WAS	609	13	0.02

[edit] Jamaica

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Graeme Townshend	BOS, NYI, OTT	45	10	0.22

[edit] Lebanon

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Ed Hatoum	DET, VAN	47	9	0.20

[edit] Nigeria

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Rumun Ndur	BUF, NYR, ATL	69	5	0.07

[edit] Indonesia

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Richie Regehr*	CGY	20	4	0.20

[edit] Belgium

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Jan Benda	WAS	9	3	0.33

[edit] Players origins

2006–2007 Season
Percent		Country	Number of Players
50.8		Canada	355
17.7		USA	124
7.1		Czech Republic	50
5.5		Sweden	39
5.0		Finland	35
4.7		Russia	33
3.0		Slovakia	21
1.1		Ukraine	8
1.0		Germany	7
0.5		Switzerland	4
0.5		Latvia	4
0.4		Kazakhstan	3
0.2		Austria	2
0.2		Lithuania	2
0.2		Norway	2
0.1		Belarus	1
0.1		Brazil	1
0.1		Brunei	1
0.1		France	1
0.1		Great Britain	1
0.1		South Korea	1
0.1		South Africa	1
0.1		Poland	1
0.1		Slovenia	1
0.1		Lebanon	1
100	25	Total	699

[edit] See also

• List of NHL statistical leaders
• List of NHL players

[edit] External links

• The Internet Hockey Database
• Legends of Hockey
• NHL Finland