Alex Ovechkin has scored the most career goals against empty nets, with 59 goals.

Interpreted as:

most empty net goals by a player in NHL history

	NAME	ENG	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	59	1,444	868	707	1,575	+60	825	316	272	5	1	132	26	6,690	13.0	64	188	34.0	3,676	553	778	1,152	20:43
2	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	56	1,487	894	1,963	2,857	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
3	Marian Hossa M. Hossa	40	1,309	525	609	1,134	+245	628	143	231	34	12	85	15	4,229	12.4	64	187	34.2	1,062	395	1,008	668	18:55
4	Brad Marchand B. Marchand	35	1,063	414	541	955	+290	1,079	81	161	36	22	81	21	2,718	15.2	266	682	39.0	989	358	660	894	18:02
5	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	35	1,306	601	1,030	1,631	+213	840	176	393	4	7	93	23	4,176	14.4	15,112	28,660	52.7	1,147	640	754	1,053	20:40
6	Eric Staal E. Staal	33	1,365	455	608	1,063	-82	854	133	184	21	8	72	5	4,041	11.3	10,063	20,894	48.2	940	558	885	703	19:07
7	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	33	915	690	1,033	1,723	+114	834	236	465	49	22	74	11	3,633	19.0	1,414	2,865	49.4	52	45	70	122	22:40
8	Jarome Iginla J. Iginla	32	1,554	625	675	1,300	+30	1,040	197	231	13	9	101	7	4,759	13.1	2,726	5,238	52.0	1,599	464	610	778	19:56
9	Blake Wheeler B. Wheeler	31	1,172	321	622	943	+67	764	59	196	14	10	49	5	2,955	10.9	808	1,766	45.8	1,353	723	552	523	18:11
10	Sebastian Aho S. Aho	30	630	263	328	591	+109	274	65	116	18	8	58	13	1,750	15.0	3,367	6,605	51.0	481	184	473	503	18:59
11	Zach Parise Z. Parise	30	1,254	434	455	889	+76	444	125	133	11	10	83	9	3,776	11.5	412	975	42.3	995	768	612	418	17:49
12	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	29	1,714	430	1,109	1,539	+182	1,272	146	402	6	6	68	9	3,068	14.0	12,730	24,108	52.8	1,142	498	1,225	1,527	19:18
13	Patrice Bergeron P. Bergeron	28	1,294	427	613	1,040	+289	494	131	195	22	26	81	9	3,974	10.7	15,182	26,206	57.9	1,032	879	845	469	18:41
14	Pavel Bure P. Bure	28	702	437	342	779	+42	484	121	115	34	15	59	6	3,130	14.0	3	17	17.6	76	70	148	222	24:37
15	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	28	1,279	524	901	1,425	+449	912	161	262	19	20	69	1	2,841	18.4
16	John Tavares J. Tavares	27	1,141	471	600	1,071	-23	495	147	208	3	3	80	18	3,650	12.9	10,867	20,254	53.7	838	486	839	1,010	19:20
17	Kyle Connor K. Connor	26	565	262	265	527	-21	131	66	85	6	1	56	11	1,777	14.7	24	73	32.9	158	173	347	298	19:31
18	Patrick Kane P. Kane	26	1,257	476	822	1,298	+9	450	128	294	0	1	78	12	4,115	11.6	324	836	38.8	324	280	714	669	20:07
19	Teemu Selanne T. Selanne	26	1,451	684	773	1,457	+95	660	255	333	7	2	110	9	4,540	15.1	935	1,994	46.9	243	158	461	783	17:56
20	Mikko Rantanen M. Rantanen	25	605	281	386	667	+81	370	98	145	0	0	46	5	1,723	16.3	935	1,843	50.7	382	323	371	306	20:25
21	Nikita Kucherov N. Kucherov	25	753	334	588	922	+148	343	89	249	0	0	51	6	2,313	14.4	9	20	45.0	438	242	434	690	18:51
22	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	25	1,179	505	818	1,323	+38	1,176	180	319	4	1	84	13	3,750	13.5	5,832	13,019	44.8	697	499	1,011	1,137	19:38
23	Mark Messier M. Messier	25	1,756	694	1,193	1,887	+211	1,912	179	402	63	81	92	8	4,221	16.4	3,780	6,871	55.0	195	138	161	310	18:47
24	Andrei Svechnikov A. Svechnikov	24	438	143	198	341	+41	398	37	74	0	0	27	3	1,217	11.8	12	39	30.8	878	135	200	388	16:50
25	Jake Guentzel J. Guentzel	24	550	245	279	524	+79	242	56	74	1	1	32	5	1,579	15.5	207	438	47.3	613	303	266	235	19:12