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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Detroit Red Wings
2018-19All situationsThrough 82 team games
4 NHL skaters share the lead with 4 GWG for the Detroit Red Wings in 2018-19.
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Detroit Red Wings, 2018-19
1stAndreas AthanasiouDET · 76 GP4
2ndDylan LarkinDET · 76 GP4
3rdTyler BertuzziDET · 73 GP4
4thFrans NielsenDET · 72 GP4
5thGustav NyquistDET/SJS · 81 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, 15 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 1 and Andreas Athanasiou leads at 4.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andreas AthanasiouFDET | DET | 4 | 76 | 0.05 | 30 | — |
| 2 | Dylan LarkinFDET | DET | 4 | 76 | 0.05 | 32 | 93%▼1.7 |
| 3 | Tyler BertuzziFDET | DET | 4 | 73 | 0.05 | 21 | 50%▼2.2 |
| 4 | Frans NielsenFDET | DET | 4 | 72 | 0.06 | 10 | — |
| 5 | Gustav NyquistFDET/SJS | DET/SJS | 3 | 81 | 0.04 | 22 | 0.0% |
| 6 |  Danny DeKeyserDDET | DET | 3 | 52 | 0.06 | 5 | — |
| 7 |  Luke GlendeningFDET | DET | 1 | 78 | 0.01 | 10 | 0.0% |
| 8 |  Anthony ManthaFDET | DET | 1 | 67 | 0.01 | 25 | 32%▼6.4 |
| 9 |  Thomas VanekFDET | DET | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 16 | — |
| 10 |  Christoffer EhnFDET | DET | 1 | 60 | 0.02 | 3 | — |
| 11 |  Jonathan EricssonDDET | DET | 1 | 52 | 0.02 | 3 | — |
| 12 |  Dennis CholowskiDDET | DET | 1 | 52 | 0.02 | 7 | 0.0% |
| 13 |  Madison BoweyDWSH/DET | WSH/DET | 1 | 50 | 0.02 | 2 | — |
| 14 |  Trevor DaleyDDET | DET | 1 | 44 | 0.02 | 2 | — |
| 15 |  Taro HiroseFDET | DET | 1 | 10 | 0.10 | 1 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2018-19?
Andreas Athanasiou leads with 4. The median of the 15 qualified skaters is 1.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2018-19?
Danny DeKeyser leads NHL defensemen with 3; the top forward is Andreas Athanasiou at 4.
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).