Who was the oldest NHL player ever?

Gordie Howe was the oldest NHL player ever.

He was a Canadian professional ice hockey player.

Howe played 26 seasons in the National Hockey League and six seasons in the World Hockey Association through 1946 to 1980.

He made his NHL debut with the Red Wings in 1946. Howe won the Art Ross Trophy for leading the league in points each year from 1950 to 54.

Howe was ranked among the top ten in NHL scoring for 21 consecutive years and set an NHL record for points in 1953.

He also won the Stanley Cup with the Red Wings four times and won six Hart Trophies as the NHL’s most valuable player.

In 1971, Howe retired for the first time. Following his retirement, he was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame that same year.

He was then inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame the next year but came back two years later to join his sons Mark and Marty on the Houston Aeros of the WHA.

Howe made a brief return to the NHL from 1979 to 80, playing one season with the Hartford Whalers, then finally retired at age 52.

He died on June 10, 2016, at his son Murray’s house in the Toledo suburb of Sylvania, Ohio at the age of 88.