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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Carolina Hurricanes
2018-19All situationsThrough 82 team games
Sebastian Aho (CAR) leads NHL skaters with 7 GWG for the Carolina Hurricanes in 2018-19, ahead of 
Justin Williams (CAR) (5).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Carolina Hurricanes, 2018-19
- 1stSebastian AhoCAR · 82 GP7
- 2ndJustin WilliamsCAR · 82 GP5
3rdJordan MartinookCAR · 82 GP5
4thLucas WallmarkCAR · 81 GP4
5thJustin FaulkCAR · 82 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 2018-19, 17 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 3 and Sebastian Aho leads at 7.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sebastian AhoFCAR | CAR | 7 | 82 | 0.09 | 30 | 100% |
| 2 | Justin WilliamsFCAR | CAR | 5 | 82 | 0.06 | 23 | — |
| 3 | Jordan MartinookFCAR | CAR | 5 | 82 | 0.06 | 15 | 4.3% |
| 4 | Lucas WallmarkFCAR | CAR | 4 | 81 | 0.05 | 10 | — |
| 5 | Justin FaulkDCAR | CAR | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 11 | 54%▲4.7 |
| 6 |  Nino NiederreiterFMIN/CAR | MIN/CAR | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 23 | 4.0% |
| 7 |  Andrei SvechnikovFCAR | CAR | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 20 | 98% |
| 8 |  Warren FoegeleFCAR | CAR | 3 | 77 | 0.04 | 10 | 3.2%▼0.8 |
| 9 |  Micheal FerlandFCAR | CAR | 3 | 71 | 0.04 | 17 | — |
| 10 |  Dougie HamiltonDCAR | CAR | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 18 | 82%▼0.9 |
| 11 |  Brett PesceDCAR | CAR | 2 | 73 | 0.03 | 7 | 0.3% |
| 12 |  Teuvo TeravainenFCAR | CAR | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 21 | 12%▲0.9 |
| 13 |  Jaccob SlavinDCAR | CAR | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 8 | 26%▲4.9 |
| 14 |  Trevor van RiemsdykDCAR | CAR | 1 | 78 | 0.01 | 3 | 0.6% |
| 15 |  Calvin de HaanDCAR | CAR | 1 | 74 | 0.01 | 1 | — |
| 16 |  Jordan StaalFCAR | CAR | 1 | 50 | 0.02 | 11 | 15%▼2 |
| 17 |  Greg McKeggFCAR | CAR | 1 | 41 | 0.02 | 6 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2018-19?
Sebastian Aho leads with 7. The median of the 17 qualified skaters is 3.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2018-19?
Justin Faulk leads NHL defensemen with 3; the top forward is Sebastian Aho at 7.
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).