Top NHL Forwards
This page ranks the ten highest-scoring NHL forwards — centres, left wings and right wings — of every regular season since 2016-17. Defensemen are ranked on the defensemen page.
The ten highest-scoring centres and wingers of every NHL season since 2016-17. Click any player to highlight every season he finished in the top ten.
Season 2025-26
Season 2024-25
Season 2023-24
Season 2022-23
Season 2021-22
Season 2020-21
Season 2019-20
Season 2018-19
Season 2017-18
Season 2016-17
How these rankings work
Only centres, left wings and right wings are eligible. 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 all skaters, goals, assists, 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?
38 — 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.