Top 50 NHLers based on Points per Game Percentage

Continuing our look at the the best NHL players over the past decade, here is a look at the top 50 NHL players based on points per game percentage over the past ten seasons. To qualify, players must have played a minimum of 100 regular season games. Which is why Connor Bedard does not qualify for this list (he’s currently at around 0.89 PPG for this interested).

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Best NHL Players based on PPG Percentage

Here are the top fifty NHL players based on points per game percentage since the 2013-14 NHL season through March of 2024.

Player Pos GP G A Points +/- P/GP PPG PPP SHG OTG GWG
Connor McDavid C 623 324 617 941 134 1.51 76 320 8 15 66
Nikita Kucherov R 703 314 517 831 131 1.18 87 306 0 6 48
Leon Draisaitl C 694 335 482 817 42 1.18 140 286 9 11 59
Kirill Kaprizov L 254 140 157 297 48 1.17 49 106 0 8 20
Sidney Crosby C 775 344 553 897 122 1.16 100 296 1 15 61
Auston Matthews C 537 351 268 619 133 1.15 91 173 0 11 59
Artemi Panarin L 649 249 491 740 143 1.14 65 226 0 10 43
Nathan MacKinnon C 768 318 537 855 128 1.11 90 275 2 13 62
Mitchell Marner R 563 191 435 626 111 1.11 42 191 9 4 30
Patrick Kane R 761 314 527 841 -14 1.11 80 265 0 10 48
Evgeni Malkin C 660 270 443 713 4 1.08 95 271 0 7 46
Jason Robertson L 270 123 168 291 77 1.08 32 87 0 4 23
David Pastrnak R 652 339 363 702 141 1.08 112 233 0 9 59
Mikko Rantanen R 549 250 337 587 60 1.07 89 219 0 5 38
Cale Makar D 292 78 229 307 97 1.05 27 133 1 5 19
Steven Stamkos C 687 330 390 720 52 1.05 135 274 4 6 55
Elias Pettersson C 385 165 232 397 50 1.03 48 129 7 7 31
Brad Marchand L 789 331 451 782 220 0.99 68 217 27 19 67
Alex Ovechkin L 800 467 325 792 -36 0.99 179 288 1 14 67
Johnny Gaudreau L 739 239 486 725 34 0.98 50 208 0 15 46
Matthew Tkachuk L 567 212 344 556 128 0.98 63 178 0 2 23
John Tavares C 793 332 437 769 4 0.97 105 255 3 13 53
Aleksander Barkov C 716 256 430 686 112 0.96 72 207 12 8 46
Jack Eichel C 518 199 291 490 -39 0.95 53 163 1 10 33
Brayden Point C 559 248 277 525 65 0.94 83 159 3 10 52
Claude Giroux R 823 256 507 763 19 0.93 65 282 4 11 39
Jake Guentzel L 503 219 247 466 53 0.93 48 112 1 5 31
Sebastian Aho C 575 240 289 529 91 0.92 57 159 17 11 52
Kyle Connor L 506 232 232 464 -23 0.92 57 134 5 9 49
Mark Scheifele C 762 288 407 695 64 0.91 75 174 2 14 46
Quinn Hughes D 343 38 273 311 23 0.91 6 138 0 3 5
Jack Hughes C 286 105 154 259 -45 0.91 25 85 0 6 15
Nicklas Backstrom C 692 162 456 618 -11 0.89 48 258 1 6 23
Mark Stone R 636 212 355 567 120 0.89 46 137 9 6 38
Blake Wheeler R 800 228 483 711 25 0.89 45 215 11 5 37
Mathew Barzal C 477 122 301 423 3 0.89 23 124 0 5 19
Jonathan Huberdeau C 759 208 465 673 41 0.89 48 206 4 5 28
William Nylander R 578 208 300 508 25 0.88 60 165 3 11 39
Tyler Seguin C 756 290 370 660 20 0.87 79 204 2 10 50
Pavel Datsyuk C 174 59 92 151 20 0.87 22 56 0 2 8
Tim Stützle C 266 87 143 230 -53 0.86 21 73 4 4 11
Erik Karlsson D 742 142 498 640 -83 0.86 32 225 1 9 24
Anze Kopitar C 827 237 475 712 77 0.86 64 232 5 7 50
Joe Pavelski C 831 319 395 714 149 0.86 126 255 3 5 46
Vladimir Tarasenko R 691 277 316 593 75 0.86 65 161 1 11 48
Filip Forsberg L 670 267 302 569 39 0.85 67 171 6 11 50
Patrice Bergeron C 715 274 333 607 219 0.85 85 190 15 4 52
Adam Fox D 334 45 237 282 101 0.84 7 121 2 2 13
Alex DeBrincat R 508 209 216 425 -42 0.84 73 145 1 11 28
Taylor Hall L 661 201 351 552 -22 0.84 52 149 1 10 32
Jakub Voracek R 691 144 433 577 -41 0.84 41 206 0 10 22

With seventeen NHL players tallying points at a point-per-game or higher pace, Connor McDavid with 1.51 points per game is the highest point producer in the National Hockey League over the past ten seasons. Avalanche defenseman, Cale Makar is the only defenseman on the list with a point-per-game or higher average coming in at 1.05 points-per-game.