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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Tampa Bay Lightning
2019-20All situationsThrough 71 team games
Alex Killorn (TBL) leads NHL skaters with 7 GWG for the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2019-20, ahead of 
Nikita Kucherov (TBL) (6).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Tampa Bay Lightning, 2019-20
- 1stAlex KillornTBL · 68 GP7
- 2ndNikita KucherovTBL · 68 GP6
3rdSteven StamkosTBL · 57 GP6
4thYanni GourdeTBL · 70 GP5
5thBrayden PointTBL · 66 GP4
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 Alex Killorn leads at 7.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alex KillornFTBL | TBL | 7 | 68 | 0.10 | 26 | 5.1% |
| 2 | Nikita KucherovFTBL | TBL | 6 | 68 | 0.09 | 33 | 100% |
| 3 | Steven StamkosFTBL | TBL | 6 | 57 | 0.11 | 29 | 95%▲0.7 |
| 4 | Yanni GourdeFTBL | TBL | 5 | 70 | 0.07 | 10 | 4.9% |
| 5 | Brayden PointFTBL | TBL | 4 | 66 | 0.06 | 25 | 92%▼1.7 |
| 6 |  Anthony CirelliFTBL | TBL | 3 | 68 | 0.04 | 16 | 44%▼2.2 |
| 7 |  Victor HedmanDTBL | TBL | 3 | 66 | 0.05 | 11 | 84%▼1 |
| 8 |  Barclay GoodrowFSJS/TBL | SJS/TBL | 2 | 70 | 0.03 | 8 | 0.1% |
| 9 |  Ondrej PalatFTBL | TBL | 2 | 69 | 0.03 | 17 | 0.1% |
| 10 |  Blake ColemanFNJD/TBL | NJD/TBL | 2 | 66 | 0.03 | 21 | 39%▼2.2 |
| 11 |  Tyler JohnsonFTBL | TBL | 2 | 65 | 0.03 | 14 | — |
| 12 |  Erik CernakDTBL | TBL | 1 | 67 | 0.01 | 5 | 6.6%▲0.9 |
| 13 |  Patrick MaroonFTBL | TBL | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 9 | — |
| 14 |  Carter VerhaegheFTBL | TBL | 1 | 52 | 0.02 | 9 | 76%▲7.6 |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2019-20?
Alex Killorn leads with 7. The median of the 14 qualified skaters is 3.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2019-20?
Victor Hedman leads NHL defensemen with 3; the top forward is Alex Killorn 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).