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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Calgary Flames
2019-20All situationsThrough 71 team games
Elias Lindholm (CGY) leads NHL skaters with 7 GWG for the Calgary Flames in 2019-20, ahead of 
Sean Monahan (CGY) (5).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Calgary Flames, 2019-20
- 1stElias LindholmCGY · 70 GP7
- 2ndSean MonahanCGY · 70 GP5
3rdMatthew TkachukCGY · 69 GP4
4thMikael BacklundCGY · 70 GP3
5thJohnny GaudreauCGY · 70 GP2
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 2019-20, 11 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Elias Lindholm leads at 7.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elias LindholmFCGY | CGY | 7 | 70 | 0.10 | 29 | 43%▲1.9 |
| 2 | Sean MonahanFCGY | CGY | 5 | 70 | 0.07 | 22 | 16%▼0.9 |
| 3 | Matthew TkachukFCGY | CGY | 4 | 69 | 0.06 | 23 | 100%▲1.2 |
| 4 | Mikael BacklundFCGY | CGY | 3 | 70 | 0.04 | 16 | 12% |
| 5 | Johnny GaudreauFCGY | CGY | 2 | 70 | 0.03 | 18 | — |
| 6 |  Andrew MangiapaneFCGY | CGY | 2 | 68 | 0.03 | 17 | 3.2% |
| 7 |  Dillon DubeFCGY | CGY | 2 | 45 | 0.04 | 6 | 0.0% |
| 8 |  Zac RinaldoFCGY | CGY | 2 | 19 | 0.11 | 3 | — |
| 9 |  Milan LucicFCGY | CGY | 1 | 68 | 0.01 | 8 | — |
| 10 |  TJ BrodieDCGY | CGY | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 4 | — |
| 11 |  Michael FrolikFCGY/BUF | CGY/BUF | 1 | 57 | 0.02 | 6 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2019-20?
Elias Lindholm leads with 7. The median of the 11 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2019-20?
TJ Brodie leads NHL defensemen with 1; the top forward is Elias Lindholm 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).