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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Montreal Canadiens
2019-20All situationsThrough 71 team games
4 NHL skaters share the lead with 3 GWG for the Montreal Canadiens in 2019-20.
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Montreal Canadiens, 2019-20
1stJeff PetryMTL · 71 GP3
2ndMax DomiMTL · 71 GP3
3rdBen ChiarotMTL · 69 GP3
4thIlya KovalchukMTL/LAK/WSH · 46 GP3
5thShea WeberMTL · 65 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, 17 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 1 and Jeff Petry leads at 3.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeff PetryDMTL | MTL | 3 | 71 | 0.04 | 11 | 0.1% |
| 2 | Max DomiFMTL | MTL | 3 | 71 | 0.04 | 17 | 4.9% |
| 3 | Ben ChiarotDMTL | MTL | 3 | 69 | 0.04 | 9 | 9.9%▼0.8 |
| 4 | Ilya KovalchukFMTL/LAK/WSH | MTL/LAK/WSH | 3 | 46 | 0.07 | 10 | — |
| 5 | Shea WeberDMTL | MTL | 2 | 65 | 0.03 | 15 | — |
| 6 |  Joel ArmiaFMTL | MTL | 2 | 58 | 0.03 | 16 | 3.3% |
| 7 |  Jordan WealFMTL | MTL | 2 | 49 | 0.04 | 8 | — |
| 8 |  Phillip DanaultFMTL | MTL | 1 | 71 | 0.01 | 13 | 4.1%▼0.8 |
| 9 |  Nick SuzukiFMTL | MTL | 1 | 71 | 0.01 | 13 | 100% |
| 10 |  Nate ThompsonFMTL/PHI | MTL/PHI | 1 | 70 | 0.01 | 4 | — |
| 11 |  Artturi LehkonenFMTL | MTL | 1 | 70 | 0.01 | 13 | 83%▲6.8 |
| 12 |  Tomas TatarFMTL | MTL | 1 | 68 | 0.01 | 22 | — |
| 13 |  Brendan GallagherFMTL | MTL | 1 | 59 | 0.02 | 22 | 0.3%▼3 |
| 14 |  Victor MeteDMTL | MTL | 1 | 51 | 0.02 | 4 | — |
| 15 |  Mike ReillyDOTT/MTL | OTT/MTL | 1 | 44 | 0.02 | 1 | 3.2% |
| 16 |  Jonathan DrouinFMTL | MTL | 1 | 27 | 0.04 | 7 | 0.4% |
| 17 |  Charles HudonFMTL | MTL | 1 | 15 | 0.07 | 1 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2019-20?
Jeff Petry leads with 3. The median of the 17 qualified skaters is 1.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2019-20?
Jeff Petry leads NHL defensemen with 3; the top forward is Max Domi 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).