The NHL’s Career Points Race on Level Ground

An animated bar chart race of the NHL’s top 15 all-time scorers accumulating their career points year-by-year.
nhl
visualization
data-analysis
career-stats
Author

Nate Lesperance

Published

March 22, 2026

The Race

About

This visualization shows the points leaders in the NHL with aligned years in the league allowing comparison of scoring prowess across different eras and include labelling for their team at the time.

  • Data Source: The data for this visualization was collected using the nhl-api-py library, pulling regular season statistics (current up to March 22, 2026) from the NHL’s official API.
  • Visualization: Built using D3.js and adapted from Mike Bostock’s D3 template.