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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Utah Mammoth
2017-18All situationsThrough 82 team games
5 NHL skaters share the lead with 3 GWG for the Utah Mammoth in 2017-18.
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Utah Mammoth, 2017-18
1stOliver Ekman-LarssonARI · 82 GP3
2ndClayton KellerARI · 82 GP3
3rdChristian FischerARI · 79 GP3
4thAlex GoligoskiARI · 78 GP3
5thKevin ConnautonARI · 73 GP3
The full ranked table, with filters, follows.
What Game-Winning Goals measures
This board ranks every NHL skater by game-winning goals, regular season only, listing players with at least one. Pick any season back to 2017-18 above the table. Goals that were the winning team's (loser's final score + 1)th goal, shootouts excluded.
Game-winning goals are goals plus timing luck: year-to-year correlation is weak (about 0.1 beyond what goals explain).
The game-winning goal is the winning team's goal that put it one ahead of the loser's final total: in a 5-2 win, the third goal. Shootout winners do not count. GWG mostly follows goals: the best scorers on the best teams pile them up. Season to season the total has almost no skill signal beyond goal scoring. In 2017-18, 14 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Oliver Ekman-Larsson leads at 3.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oliver Ekman-LarssonDARI | ARI | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 14 | 29%▼4.2 |
| 2 | Clayton KellerFARI | ARI | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 23 | 100% |
| 3 | Christian FischerFARI | ARI | 3 | 79 | 0.04 | 15 | — |
| 4 | Alex GoligoskiDARI | ARI | 3 | 78 | 0.04 | 12 | — |
| 5 | Kevin ConnautonDARI | ARI | 3 | 73 | 0.04 | 11 | — |
| 6 |  Derek StepanFARI | ARI | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 14 | — |
| 7 |  Christian DvorakFARI | ARI | 2 | 78 | 0.03 | 15 | 15%▲1.7 |
| 8 |  Jason DemersDARI | ARI | 2 | 69 | 0.03 | 6 | — |
| 9 |  Anthony DuclairFARI/CHI | ARI/CHI | 2 | 56 | 0.04 | 11 | 3.2% |
| 10 |  Jordan MartinookFARI | ARI | 1 | 81 | 0.01 | 6 | 4.3% |
| 11 |  Brendan PerliniFARI | ARI | 1 | 74 | 0.01 | 17 | — |
| 12 |  Nick CousinsFARI | ARI | 1 | 71 | 0.01 | 12 | 3.3% |
| 13 |  Luke SchennDARI | ARI | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 1 | 12% |
| 14 |  Jakob ChychrunDARI | ARI | 1 | 50 | 0.02 | 4 | 99% |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2017-18?
Oliver Ekman-Larsson leads with 3. The median of the 14 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2017-18?
Oliver Ekman-Larsson leads NHL defensemen with 3; the top forward is Clayton Keller at 3.
How is Game-Winning Goals calculated?
Goals that were the winning team's (loser's final score + 1)th goal, shootouts excluded. Regular season only, from the NHL's official game data.
How reliable is Game-Winning Goals?
Game-winning goals are goals plus timing luck: year-to-year correlation is weak (about 0.1 beyond what goals explain).