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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: New York Rangers
2019-20All situationsThrough 71 team games
Mika Zibanejad (NYR) leads NHL skaters with 6 GWG for the New York Rangers in 2019-20, ahead of 
Chris Kreider (NYR) (5).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, New York Rangers, 2019-20
- 1stMika ZibanejadNYR · 57 GP6
- 2ndChris KreiderNYR · 63 GP5
3rdAdam FoxNYR · 70 GP4
4thArtemi PanarinNYR · 69 GP4
5thRyan StromeNYR · 70 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, 14 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 3 and Mika Zibanejad leads at 6.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mika ZibanejadFNYR | NYR | 6 | 57 | 0.11 | 41 | 98% |
| 2 | Chris KreiderFNYR | NYR | 5 | 63 | 0.08 | 24 | 55%▼6.4 |
| 3 | Adam FoxDNYR | NYR | 4 | 70 | 0.06 | 8 | 99% |
| 4 | Artemi PanarinFNYR | NYR | 4 | 69 | 0.06 | 32 | 96%▼1.6 |
| 5 | Ryan StromeFNYR | NYR | 3 | 70 | 0.04 | 18 | 4.0% |
| 6 |  Tony DeAngeloDNYR | NYR | 3 | 68 | 0.04 | 15 | 19%▼0.8 |
| 7 |  Kaapo KakkoFNYR | NYR | 3 | 66 | 0.05 | 10 | 25%▲0.7 |
| 8 |  Brett HowdenFNYR | NYR | 2 | 70 | 0.03 | 9 | 24%▲9 |
| 9 |  Vladislav NamestnikovFOTT/COL/NYR | OTT/COL/NYR | 2 | 65 | 0.03 | 17 | 0.1% |
| 10 |  Filip ChytilFNYR | NYR | 2 | 60 | 0.03 | 14 | 7.3%▲0.9 |
| 11 |  Jacob TroubaDNYR | NYR | 1 | 70 | 0.01 | 7 | 72%▲1.5 |
| 12 |  Jesper FastFNYR | NYR | 1 | 69 | 0.01 | 12 | — |
| 13 |  Pavel BuchnevichFNYR | NYR | 1 | 68 | 0.01 | 16 | 31% |
| 14 |  Brady SkjeiDNYR/CAR | NYR/CAR | 1 | 67 | 0.01 | 8 | 15%▼1.1 |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2019-20?
Mika Zibanejad leads with 6. The median of the 14 qualified skaters is 3.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2019-20?
Adam Fox leads NHL defensemen with 4; the top forward is Mika Zibanejad 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).