# Top 14 Power-Play Goal Scorers in NHL History

> The man advantage is where careers get built: one-timers from the circle, tips at the crease, and a spot on the ice so reliable it got a nickname. Pick the scorer you would least want to defend two men short.

*By YPB Team · Published August 21, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/top-14-power-play-goal-scorers-in-nhl-history*

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1. **Alex Ovechkin** — score 1000/1000
   Scores from the same left-circle spot so often that the spot is called his office.
2. **Dave Andreychuk** — score 1000/1000
   Held the power-play record for two decades on the strength of pure net-front work.
3. **Marcel Dionne** — score 912/1000
   Scored 731 goals for mostly ordinary teams, many with the extra man.
4. **Phil Esposito** — score 879/1000
   Parked in the slot for Boston and converted everything that arrived there.
5. **Steven Stamkos** — score 684/1000
   The modern one-timer specialist from the opposite circle to Ovechkin's.
6. **Wayne Gretzky** — score 684/1000
   Set up more power-play goals than anyone has scored, and still finished plenty himself.
7. **Joe Nieuwendyk** — score 684/1000
   Won Cups with three teams by living on the edge of the crease.
8. **Luc Robitaille** — score 560/1000
   The highest-scoring left wing before Ovechkin, and most of it from in tight.
9. **Brett Hull** — score 560/1000
   A one-timer off the wing that goalies could see coming and still not stop.
10. **Dino Ciccarelli** — score 560/1000
   Made a 608-goal career out of tips, deflections and rebounds nobody else wanted.
11. **Mike Bossy** — score 560/1000
   Nine straight 50-goal seasons, a lot of them on the Islanders' man advantage.
12. **Mario Lemieux** — score 410/1000
   Ran the Pittsburgh power play as both quarterback and finisher.
13. **Teemu Selanne** — score 410/1000
   The Finnish Flash turned 21 seasons of man-advantage chances into goals.
14. **Mike Gartner** — score 410/1000
   Seven hundred goals of speed and consistency across four decades of the schedule.

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