List of NHL statistical leaders by country

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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 2006–07 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, following Hockey Hall of Fame convention.

[edit] Country

[edit] 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	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	1363	1629	1.20
9	Phil Esposito	CHI, BOS, NYR	1282	1590	1.24
10	Ray Bourque	BOS, COL	1612	1579	0.98

[edit] Czech Republic

Jaromir Jagr is the all-time leading Czech point scorer, and the second leading active point scorer overall.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Jaromir Jagr	PIT, WAS, NYR	1273	1599	1.26
2	Bobby Holik	HAR, NJD, NYR, ATL	1252	738	0.59
3	Martin Straka	PIT, OTT, NYI, FLA, LAK, NYR	954	717	0.75
4	Petr Nedved	VAN, STL, NYR, PIT, EDM, PHO, PHI, EDM	982	717	0.73
5	Robert Lang	LAK, BOS, PIT, WAS, DET, CHI	875	635	0.73
6	Robert Reichel	CGY, NYI, PHO, TOR	830	630	0.76
7	Patrik Elias	NJD	745	628	0.84
8	Martin Rucinsky	EDM, QUE, COL, MTL, DAL, NYR, STL, NYR, VAN, NYR, STL	961	612	0.64
9	Michal Pivonka	WAS	825	599	0.73
10	Petr Klima	DET, EDM, TAM, LAK, PIT	786	574	0.73

[edit] Slovakia

Pavol Demitra is the leading active Slovak point scorer.

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	Pavol Demitra	OTT, STL, LAK, MIN	750	699	0.93
5	Miroslav Satan	EDM, BUF, NYI	947	685	0.72
6	Jozef Stumpel	BOS, LAK, FLA	957	677	0.71
7	Marian Hossa	OTT, ATL, PIT	701	648	0.92
8	Anton Stastny	QUE	650	636	0.98
9	Marian Gaborik	MIN	485	414	0.85
10	Robert Svehla	FLA, TOR	655	335	0.51

[edit] 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	1067	1158	1.09
3	Tomas Sandstrom	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	1315	620	0.47
6	Saku Koivu	MTL	727	591	0.81
7	Jere Lehtinen	DAL	769	473	0.62
8	Jyrki Lumme	MTL, VAN, PHO, DAL, TOR	985	468	0.48
9	Olli Jokinen	LAK, NYI, FLA	723	461	0.64
10	Sami Kapanen	HAR, CAR, PHI	831	458	0.55

[edit] Sweden

Nicklas Lidstrom is Sweden's second all-time leading point scorer—a remarkable feat for a defenceman.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Mats Sundin	QUE, TOR	1305	1321	1.01
2	Nicklas Lidstrom	DET	1252	938	0.75
3	Peter Forsberg	QUE, COL, PHI, NAS	706	885	1.25
4	Daniel Alfredsson	OTT	853	847	0.99
5	Markus Naslund	PIT, VAN	1035	823	0.80
6	Thomas Steen	WIN	950	817	0.86
7	Borje Salming	TOR, DET	1148	787	0.69
8	Kent Nilsson	ATL, CGY, MIN, EDM	553	686	1.24
9	Ulf Dahlen	NYR, MIN, DAL, SJS, CHI, WAS	966	655	0.68
10	Mats Naslund	MTL, BOS	651	634	0.97

[edit] United States

Mike Modano—the all-time leading U.S. point scorer—is seen here scoring the goal that put him past Phil Housley.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Mike Modano	MIN, DAL	1320	1283	0.97
2	Phil Housley	BUF, WIN, STL, CGY, NJD, WAS, CHI, TOR	1495	1232	0.82
3	Jeremy Roenick	CHI, PHO, PHI, LAK, PHO, SJS	1321	1203	0.91
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	Keith Tkachuk	WIN, PHO, STL, ATL, STL	1055	984	0.93
8	Doug Weight	NYR, EDM, STL, CAR, STL, ANA	1131	969	0.86
9	Chris Chelios	MTL, CHI, DET	1616	948	0.59
10	Neal Broten	MIN, DAL, NJD, LAK	1099	923	0.84

[edit] 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	1196	1146	0.96
2	Alexander Mogilny	BUF, VAN, NJD, TOR, NJD	990	1032	1.04
3	Alexei Kovalev	NYR, PIT, MTL	1073	876	0.82
4	Alexei Yashin	OTT, NYI	850	781	0.91
5	Pavel Bure	VAN, FLA, NYR	702	779	1.11
6	Sergei Zubov	NYR, PIT, DAL	1058	767	0.72
7	Vyacheslav Kozlov	DET, BUF, ATL	1045	751	0.72
8	Alexei Zhamnov	WIN, CHI, PHI, BOS	807	719	0.89
9	Igor Larionov	VAN, SJS, DET, FLA, NJD	921	644	0.70
10	Sergei Gonchar	WAS, BOS, PIT	904	615	0.68

[edit] 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	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

Peter Bondra—seen here scoring on Roberto Luongo—is the all-time leading point scorer from the Ukraine, although he played internationally for Slovakia.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Peter Bondra	WAS, OTT, ATL, CHI	1081	892	0.82
2	Dmitri Khristich	WAS, LAK, BOS, TOR	811	597	0.74
3	Alexei Zhitnik	LAK, BUF, NYI, PHI, ATL	1085	471	0.43
4	Oleg Tverdovsky	ANA, PHO, NJD, CAR, LAK	713	317	0.44
5	Ruslan Fedotenko	PHI, TAM, NYI	532	239	0.45
6	Nikolai Zherdev	CBJ	283	181	0.64
7	Alexei Ponikarovsky	TOR	334	155	0.46
8	Vitaly Vishnevski	ANA, ATL, NAS, NJD	552	68	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, CGY	1068	807	0.76
2	Sid Finney	CHI	59	17	0.29

[edit] 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	NYR	945	678	0.72
2	Dany Heatley	ATL, OTT	425	471	1.11
3	Marco Sturm	SJS, BOS	760	416	0.55
4	Jochen Hecht	STL, EDM, BUF	548	343	0.63
5	Willie Huber	DET, NYR, VAN, PHI	655	321	0.49
6	Uwe Krupp	BUF, NYI, QUE, COL, DET, ATL	729	281	0.39
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	Christian Ehrhoff	SJS	264	90	0.34
10	Uli Hiemer	NJD	143	73	0.51

[edit] France

Cristobal Huet, a goaltender, is the leading active French point scorer.

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	Cristobal Huet (G)	LAK, MTL, WAS	183	3	0.01
4	Pat Daley	WIN	12	1	0.08

[edit] Latvia

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

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Sandis Ozolinsh	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	NAS, COL, FLA	599	97	0.16
4	Raitis Ivanans	MTL, LAK	143	16	0.11
5	Herberts Vasiljevs	ATL, VAN, FLA	51	15	0.29
6	Helmuts Balderis	MIN	26	9	0.35
7	Arturs Irbe (G)	SJS, DAL, VAN, CAR	568	9	0.02
8	Kaspars Astashenko	TAM	23	3	0.13
9	Peter Skudra (G)	PIT, BOS, 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	Wojtek Wolski	COL	162	104	0.64
4	John Miszuk	DET, CHI, PHI, MIN	237	46	0.19
5	Krzysztof Oliwa	NJD, PIT, CBJ, BOS, NYR, CGY	410	45	0.11
6	Peter Sidorkiewicz (G)	HAR, OTT, NJD	246	9	0.03

[edit] Lithuania

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Dainius Zubrus	PHI, MTL, WAS, BUF, NJD	771	398	0.52
2	Darius Kasparaitis	NYI, COL, PIT, NYR	863	163	0.19

[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	Bobby 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

Mark Streit is the leading active Swiss point scorer.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Mark Hardy	LAK, MIN, NYR	926	368	0.40
2	Mark Streit	MTL	205	109	0.53
3	Patrick Fischer	PHO	27	10	0.37
4	Martin Gerber (G)	ANA, CAR, OTT	200	5	0.03
5	David Aebischer (G)	COL, MTL, PHO	214	5	0.03
6	Reto Von Arx	CHI	19	4	0.21
7	Timo Helbling	TAM	11	1	0.09
8	Michel Riesen	EDM	12	1	0.08

[edit] Taiwan

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

[edit] Kazakhstan

Evgeni Nabokov, a goaltender, is the fifth all-time leading point scorer from Kazakhstan, although he plays internationally for Russia.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Nikolai Antropov	TOR	446	245	0.55
2	Alexander Perezhogin	MTL	128	34	0.26
3	Pavel Vorobiev	CHI	57	25	0.48
4	Maxim Kuznetsov	DET, LAK	136	10	0.07
5	Evgeni Nabokov (G)	SJS	430	8	0.02
6	Konstantin Pushkarev	LAK, DAL	17	5	0.29
7	Vitaly Kolesnik (G)	COL	8	1	0.13

[edit] Ireland

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Jim McFadden	DET, CHI	412	226	0.55
2	Jack Riley	DET, MTL, BOS	104	32	0.31
3	Bobby Kirk	NYR	39	12	0.31
4	Sammy McManus	MTL, BOS	26	1	0.04

[edit] Austria

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

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Thomas Vanek	BUF	245	196	0.80
2	Thomas Pock	NYR	59	14	0.24
3	Christoph Brandner	MIN	35	9	0.26

[edit] Netherlands

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

[edit] Belarus

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Ruslan Salei	ANA, FLA, COL	758	167	0.22
2	Andrei Kostitsyn	MTL	112	67	0.60
3	Konstantin Koltsov	PIT	144	38	0.26
4	Sergei Kostitsyn	MTL	52	27	0.52

[edit] South Korea

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Richard Park	PIT, ANA, PHI, MIN, VAN. NYI	532	165	0.31
2	Jim Paek	PIT, LAK, OTT	217	34	0.16

[edit] Slovenia

Anze Kopitar is the only Slovenian to ever play in the NHL.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Anze Kopitar	LAK	154	138	0.90

[edit] 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	CGY	592	121	0.20
2	Mike Greenlay (G)	EDM	2	1	0.5

[edit] Norway

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Espen Knutsen	ANA, CBJ	207	111	0.54
2	Patrick Thoresen	EDM, PHI	106	24	0.23
3	Anders Myrvold	COL, BOS, NYI, DET	33	5	0.15
4	Ole-Kristian Tollefsen	CBJ	126	9	0.07

[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] Brunei

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Craig Adams	CAR	462	83	0.18

[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	31	5	0.16

[edit] Haiti

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

[edit] South Africa

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Olaf Kolzig (G)	WAS	711	17	0.02

[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] 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

The following table shows the origins of every player who played an NHL regular season game in the given year.

Country	No. Players (2002–03)	%	No. Players (2003–04)	%	No. Players (2005–06)	%	No. Players (2006–07)	%	No. Players (2007–08)	%
Austria	1	0.1	3	0.3	3	0.3	2	0.2	2	0.2
Belarus	2	0.2	2	0.2	3	0.3	2	0.2	3	0.3
Brazil	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1
Brunei	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1
Canada	488	55.1	548	54.3	517	53.8	495	52.7	489	52.0
Croatia			1	0.1
Czech Republic	73	7.4	74	7.3	65	6.8	65	6.9	59	6.3
Denmark							1	0.1	2	0.2
England	2	0.2	2	0.2					1	0.1
Finland	38	3.9	38	3.8	39	4.1	42	4.5	40	4.3
France	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1
Germany	6	0.6	6	0.6	8	0.8	8	0.8	9	1.0
Indonesia					1	0.1	1	0.1
Japan							1	0.1
Kazakhstan	2	0.2	3	0.3	6	0.6	4	0.4	3	0.3
Latvia	5	0.5	4	0.4	3	0.3	4	0.4	3	0.3
Lithuania	2	0.2	2	0.2	2	0.2	2	0.2	1	0.1
Northern Ireland	1	0.1	1	0.1			1	0.1	1	0.1
Norway	1	0.1	2	0.2	1	0.1	2	0.2	2	0.2
Poland	2	0.2	2	0.2	3	0.3	1	0.1	1	0.1
Russia	57	5.8	57	5.6	40	4.2	35	3.7	30	3.2
Slovakia	35	3.6	37	3.7	31	3.2	25	2.7	23	2.4
Slovenia							1	0.1	1	0.1
South Africa	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1
South Korea	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.1
Sweden	58	5.9	52	5.1	45	4.7	49	5.2	52	5.5
Switzerland	2	0.2	3	0.3	4	0.4	5	0.5	6	0.6
Ukraine	8	0.8	8	0.8	8	0.8	9	1.0	5	0.5
United States	140	14.3	160	15.8	177	18.4	182	19.3	203	21.6
Total	980	100.0	1010	100.0	961	100.0	942	100.0	941	100.0

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