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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Colorado Avalanche
2018-19All situationsThrough 82 team games
Gabriel Landeskog (COL) leads NHL skaters with 9 GWG for the Colorado Avalanche in 2018-19, ahead of 
Nathan MacKinnon (COL) (6).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Colorado Avalanche, 2018-19
- 1stGabriel LandeskogCOL · 73 GP9
- 2ndNathan MacKinnonCOL · 82 GP6
3rdMikko RantanenCOL · 74 GP4
4thTyson JostCOL · 70 GP3
5thJ.T. CompherCOL · 66 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, 13 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Gabriel Landeskog leads at 9.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gabriel LandeskogFCOL | COL | 9 | 73 | 0.12 | 34 | 51%▲4.6 |
| 2 | Nathan MacKinnonFCOL | COL | 6 | 82 | 0.07 | 41 | 100% |
| 3 | Mikko RantanenFCOL | COL | 4 | 74 | 0.05 | 31 | 99% |
| 4 | Tyson JostFCOL | COL | 3 | 70 | 0.04 | 11 | 0.0% |
| 5 | J.T. CompherFCOL | COL | 3 | 66 | 0.05 | 16 | 3.2% |
| 6 |  Carl SoderbergFCOL | COL | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 23 | — |
| 7 |  Tyson BarrieDCOL | COL | 2 | 78 | 0.03 | 14 | — |
| 8 |  Colin WilsonFCOL | COL | 2 | 65 | 0.03 | 12 | — |
| 9 |  Erik JohnsonDCOL | COL | 1 | 80 | 0.01 | 7 | — |
| 10 |  Alexander KerfootFCOL | COL | 1 | 78 | 0.01 | 15 | 3.2% |
| 11 |  Matt NietoFCOL | COL | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 4 | — |
| 12 |  Sven AndrighettoFCOL | COL | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 7 | — |
| 13 |  Gabriel BourqueFCOL | COL | 1 | 55 | 0.02 | 2 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2018-19?
Gabriel Landeskog leads with 9. The median of the 13 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2018-19?
Tyson Barrie leads NHL defensemen with 2; the top forward is Gabriel Landeskog at 9.
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).