This is a list of NHL statistical leaders by country of birth, sorted by total points. The top ten players from each country are included. Statistics are current through the 2006-07 NHL season and players currently active are marked in boldface.

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

Birth country

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	Joe Sakic	QUE, COL	1319	1589	1.20
10	Ray Bourque	BOS, COL	1612	1579	0.98

Czech Republic

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Jaromir Jagr	PIT, WAS, NYR	1191	1528	1.28
2	Petr Nedved	VAN, STL, NYR, PIT, EDM, PHO, PHI, EDM	982	717	0.73
3	Bobby Holik	HAR, NJD, NYR, ATL	1170	704	0.60
4	Martin Straka	PIT, OTT, NYI, FLA, LAK, NYR	889	676	0.76
5	Robert Reichel	CGY, NYI, PHO, TOR	830	630	0.76
6	Michal Pivonka	WAS	825	599	0.73
7	Martin Rucinsky	EDM, QUE, COL, MTL, DAL, NYR, STL, NYR, VAN, NYR, STL	921	596	0.65
8	Robert Lang	LAK, BOS, PIT, WAS, DET, CHI	799	581	0.73
9	Petr Klima	DET, EDM, TAM, LAK, PIT	786	574	0.73
10	Patrik Elias	NJD	671	573	0.85

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	Peter Bondra	WAS, OTT, ATL, CHI	1081	892	0.82
4	Zigmund Palffy	NYI, LAK, PIT	684	713	1.04
5	Jozef Stumpel	BOS, LAK, FLA	905	657	0.72
6	Pavol Demitra	OTT, STL, LAK, MIN	682	645	0.94
7	Miroslav Satan	EDM, BUF, NYI	867	644	0.74
8	Anton Stastny	QUE	650	636	0.98
9	Marian Hossa	OTT, ATL	629	582	0.92
10	Robert Svehla	FLA, TOR	655	335	0.51 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

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, ANA	1041	1135	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	1314	620	0.47
6	Saku Koivu	MTL	650	535	0.82
7	Jyrki Lumme	MTL, VAN, PHO, DAL, TOR	985	468	0.48
8	Sami Kapanen	HAR, CAR, PHI	757	450	0.59
9	Jere Lehtinen	DAL	721	436	0.60
10	Christian Ruuttu	BUF, CHI, VAN	621	432	0.70

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	1238	1226	0.99
3	Jeremy Roenick	CHI, PHO, PHI, LAK, SJS	1252	1170	0.93
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	Doug Weight	NYR, EDM, STL, CAR, STL	1064	944	0.88
8	Chris Chelios	MTL, CHI, DET	1547	936	0.60
9	Keith Tkachuk	WIN, PHO, STL, ATL, STL	976	926	0.94
10	Neal Broten	MIN, DAL, NJD, LAK	1099	923	0.84

Sweden

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Mats Sundin	QUE, TOR	1231	1243	1.00
2	Peter Forsberg	QUE, COL, PHI, NAS	697	871	1.24
3	Nicklas Lidström	DET	1176	868	0.73
4	Thomas Steen	WIN	950	817	0.86
5	Börje Salming	TOR, DET	1148	787	0.69
6	Markus Näslund	PIT, VAN	953	768	0.80
7	Daniel Alfredsson	OTT	783	758	0.96
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

Russia

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Sergei Fedorov	DET, ANA, CBJ	1128	1105	0.97
2	Alexander Mogilny	BUF, VAN, NJD, TOR	990	1032	1.04
3	Alexei Kovalev	NYR, PIT, MTL	991	792	0.79
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	1012	732	0.72
7	Alexei Zhamnov	WIN, CHI, PHI, BOS	807	719	0.89
8	Vyacheslav Kozlov	DET, BUF, ATL	963	710	0.73
9	Igor Larionov	VAN, SJS, DET, NJD	921	644	0.70
10	Sergei Gonchar	WAS, BOS, PIT	826	550	0.66

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

Ukraine

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Dmitri Khristich	WAS, LAK, BOS, TOR	811	597	0.74
2	Alexei Zhitnik	LAK, BUF, NYI, PHI ATL	1020	463	0.45
3	Oleg Tverdovsky	ANA, PHO, NJD, CAR, LAK	713	317	0.44
4	Ruslan Fedotenko	PHI, TAM, NYI	465	206	0.44
5	Nikolai Zherdev	CBJ	201	120	0.59
6	Alexei Ponikarovsky	TOR	268	120	0.44
7	Vitaly Vishnevski	ANA, ATL, NJD	483	61	0.12
8	Alexander Godynyuk	TOR, CGY, FLA, HAR	223	49	0.22
9	Ilya Byakin	EDM, SJS	57	33	0.58

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

Northern Ireland

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Owen Nolan	QUE, COL, SJS, TOR, PHO, CGY	991	775	0.78
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

Germany

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Walt Tkaczuk	NYR	945	678	0.72
2	Dany Heatley	ATL, OTT	354	389	1.09
3	Marco Sturm	SJS, BOS	680	360	0.52
4	Willie Huber	DET, NYR, VAN, PHI	655	321	0.49
5	Jochen Hecht	STL, EDM, BUF	473	294	0.62
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	Uli Hiemer	NJD	143	73	0.51
10	Christian Ehrhoff	SJS	187	68	0.36

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

Latvia

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Sandis Ozolinsh	SJS, COL, CAR, FLA, ANA, NYR	836	548	0.65
2	Sergei Zholtok	BOS, OTT, MTL, EDM, MIN, NAS	588	258	0.44
3	Karlis Skrastins	NAS, COL	539	92	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	70	8	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

Paraguay

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Willi Plett	ATL, CGY, MIN, BOS	834	437	0.52 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

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	85	56	0.66
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

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

Switzerland

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Mark Hardy	LAK, MIN, NYR	926	368	0.40
2	Mark Streit	MTL	124	47	0.37
3	Patrick Fischer	PHO	27	10	0.37
4	David Aebischer(G)	COL, MTL, PHO	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, BUF	11	1	0.09
8	Michel Riesen	EDM	12	1	0.08

Lithuania

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Dainius Zubrus	PHI, MTL, WAS, BUF, NJD	689	360	0.52
2	Darius Kasparaitis	NYI, COL, PIT, NYR	863	163	0.18

Taiwan

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Rod Langway	MON, WAS	994	329	0.33 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

The Netherlands

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Ed Kea	ATL, STL	583	175	0.30 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

Kazakhstan

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Nikolai Antropov	TOR	374	189	0.50
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	303	10	0.03
6	Konstantin Pushkarev	LAK, DAL	17	5	0.29
7	Vitaly Kolesnik(G)	COL	8	1	0.13 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

Belarus

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Ruslan Salei	ANA, FLA	676	137	0.20
2	Konstantin Koltsov	PIT	144	38	0.26
3	Andrei Kostitsyn	MTL	34	14	0.41 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

South Korea

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Richard Park	PIT, ANA, PHI, MIN, VAN. NYI	450	133	0.29
2	Jim Paek	PIT, LAK, OTT	217	34	0.16

Norway

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Espen Knutsen	ANA, CBJ	207	111	0.54
2	Patrick Thoresen	EDM	68	16	0.23
3	Anders Myrvold	COL, BOS, NYI, DET	33	5	0.15
4	Ole-Kristian Tollefsen	CBJ	75	5	0.06

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

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

Austria

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Thomas Vanek	BUF	163	132	0.80
2	Thomas Pock	NYR	58	14	0.24
3	Christoph Brandner	MIN	35	9	0.26 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

Brazil

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Robyn Regehr	CGY	510	101	0.19
2	Mike Greenlay(G)	EDM	2	1	0.5 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

Brunei

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Craig Adams	CAR	387	72	0.18 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

Slovenia

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Anze Kopitar	LAK	72	61	0.84 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

Denmark

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Poul Popiel	BOS, LAK, DET, VAN, EDM	224	54	0.24
2	Frans Nielsen	NYI	15	2	0.13

Haiti

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Claude Vilgrain	VAN, NJD	89	53	0.60 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

Italy

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Nelson Debenedet	DET, PIT	46	14	0.30 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

Tanzania

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Chris Nielsen	CBJ	52	14	0.27 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

South Africa

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Olaf Kölzig(G)	WAS	657	15	0.02 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

Jamaica

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Graeme Townshend	BOS, NYI, OTT	45	10	0.22 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

Lebanon

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Ed Hatoum	DET, VAN	47	9	0.20 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

Nigeria

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Rumun Ndur	BUF, NYR, ATL	69	5	0.07 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

Indonesia

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Richie Regehr	CGY	20	4	0.20 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

Belgium

Rank	Name	Team(s)	GP	PTS	PPG
1	Jan Benda	WAS	9	3	0.33 bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

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		Japan	1
0.1		South Africa	1
0.1		Poland	1
0.1		Slovenia	1
100	25	Total	699

See also

• List of NHL statistical leaders
• List of NHL players

External links

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