page_title: List of oldest National Hockey League players
section_title: Goaltenders
hierarchical_section_title: List of oldest National Hockey League players / Oldest players in a regular season or playoff game / Goaltenders
caption_attribution_description: Lester Patrick - The story of hockey - Orr, Frank. -- New York&#160;: Random House, [1971]. -- viii, 143 p.&#160;: illus., ports.&#160;; 22 cm. -- ISBN 0394923030 -- P. 41
context_page_description: Below is the List of oldest National Hockey League players, with their last year in parentheses. Only hockey players who played at least one game in the regular season or playoffs when they were 40 or older are included on the list.
context_section_description: 45 years, 345 days - Maurice Roberts (1951)
  45 years, 32 days - Johnny Bower (1969)
  44 years, 323 days - Gump Worsley (1974)
  44 years, 99 days - Lester Patrick (1928)
  44 years, 78 days - Jacques Plante (1973)
  43 years, 78 days - Dominik Hasek (2008)
  42 years, 241 days - Martin Brodeur (2015)
  42 years, 194 days - David Ayres (2020)
  42 years, 178 days - Dwayne Roloson (2012)
  42 years, 136 days - Eddie Johnston (1978)
  42 years, 91 days - Hughie Lehman (1928)
  41 years, 350 days - Ed Belfour (2007)
  41 years, 344 days - Curtis Joseph (2009)
  41 years, 177 days - George Hainsworth (1937)
  40 years, 307 days - Nikolai Khabibulin  (2013)
  40 years, 288 days - Tony Esposito (1984)
  40 years, 107 days - Terry Sawchuk (1970)
  40 years, 66 days - Sean Burke (2007)
  40 years, 38 days - Ryan Miller (Present)
  40 years, 32 days - Hap Holmes (1928)
  40 years, 10 days - Tim Thomas (2014)
  40 years, 3 days - Roberto Luongo (2019)
caption: Lester Patrick served as a replacement goaltender in the 1928 Stanley Cup Finals. At age 44, he remains the oldest goaltender in playoff history.
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