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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: New York Islanders
2019-20All situationsThrough 71 team games
Anders Lee (NYI) leads NHL skaters with 6 GWG for the New York Islanders in 2019-20, ahead of 
Brock Nelson (NYI) (5).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, New York Islanders, 2019-20
- 1stAnders LeeNYI · 68 GP6
- 2ndBrock NelsonNYI · 68 GP5
3rdJean-Gabriel PageauOTT/NYI · 67 GP5
4thRyan PulockNYI · 68 GP3
5thAnthony BeauvillierNYI · 68 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 2019-20, 17 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 1 and Anders Lee leads at 6.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anders LeeFNYI | NYI | 6 | 68 | 0.09 | 20 | 29%▼0.6 |
| 2 | Brock NelsonFNYI | NYI | 5 | 68 | 0.07 | 26 | 88%▲1.4 |
| 3 | Jean-Gabriel PageauFOTT/NYI | OTT/NYI | 5 | 67 | 0.07 | 26 | 13%▲1.8 |
| 4 | Ryan PulockDNYI | NYI | 3 | 68 | 0.04 | 10 | 7.1%▼1 |
| 5 | Anthony BeauvillierFNYI | NYI | 3 | 68 | 0.04 | 18 | 4.0% |
| 6 |  Josh BaileyFNYI | NYI | 2 | 68 | 0.03 | 14 | — |
| 7 |  Mathew BarzalFNYI | NYI | 2 | 68 | 0.03 | 19 | 80%▼1.2 |
| 8 |  Matt MartinFNYI | NYI | 2 | 55 | 0.04 | 5 | — |
| 9 |  Devon ToewsDNYI | NYI | 1 | 68 | 0.01 | 6 | 82%▲8.8 |
| 10 |  Scott MayfieldDNYI | NYI | 1 | 67 | 0.01 | 5 | 0.1% |
| 11 |  Derick BrassardFNYI | NYI | 1 | 66 | 0.02 | 10 | — |
| 12 |  Jordan EberleFNYI | NYI | 1 | 58 | 0.02 | 16 | 52%▲6.7 |
| 13 |  Leo KomarovFNYI | NYI | 1 | 48 | 0.02 | 4 | — |
| 14 |  Casey CizikasFNYI | NYI | 1 | 48 | 0.02 | 10 | 3.2% |
| 15 |  Tom KuhnhacklFNYI | NYI | 1 | 28 | 0.04 | 3 | — |
| 16 |  Cole BardreauFNYI | NYI | 1 | 10 | 0.10 | 1 | — |
| 17 |  Kieffer BellowsFNYI | NYI | 1 | 8 | 0.13 | 2 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2019-20?
Anders Lee leads with 6. The median of the 17 qualified skaters is 1.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2019-20?
Ryan Pulock leads NHL defensemen with 3; the top forward is Anders Lee at 6.
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).