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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Colorado Avalanche
2020-21All situationsThrough 56 team games
Gabriel Landeskog (COL) leads NHL skaters with 8 GWG for the Colorado Avalanche in 2020-21, ahead of 
Mikko Rantanen (COL) (7).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Colorado Avalanche, 2020-21
- 1stGabriel LandeskogCOL · 54 GP8
- 2ndMikko RantanenCOL · 52 GP7
3rdValeri NichushkinCOL · 55 GP4
4thNazem KadriCOL · 56 GP3
5thAndre BurakovskyCOL · 53 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 2020-21, 14 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 3 and Gabriel Landeskog leads at 8.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gabriel LandeskogFCOL | COL | 8 | 54 | 0.15 | 20 | 51%▲4.6 |
| 2 | Mikko RantanenFCOL | COL | 7 | 52 | 0.13 | 30 | 99% |
| 3 | Valeri NichushkinFCOL | COL | 4 | 55 | 0.07 | 10 | 50%▼2.5 |
| 4 | Nazem KadriFCOL | COL | 3 | 56 | 0.05 | 11 | 72%▲2.7 |
| 5 | Andre BurakovskyFCOL | COL | 3 | 53 | 0.06 | 19 | 4.8%▼1.7 |
| 6 |  Joonas DonskoiFCOL | COL | 3 | 51 | 0.06 | 17 | — |
| 7 |  Cale MakarDCOL | COL | 3 | 44 | 0.07 | 8 | 100% |
| 8 |  Devon ToewsDCOL | COL | 2 | 53 | 0.04 | 9 | 82%▲8.8 |
| 9 |  J.T. CompherFCOL | COL | 2 | 48 | 0.04 | 10 | 3.2% |
| 10 |  Nathan MacKinnonFCOL | COL | 2 | 48 | 0.04 | 20 | 100% |
| 11 |  Ian ColeDMIN/COL | MIN/COL | 1 | 54 | 0.02 | 1 | 3.3%▼0.8 |
| 12 |  Tyson JostFCOL | COL | 1 | 54 | 0.02 | 7 | 0.0% |
| 13 |  Carl SoderbergFCHI/COL | CHI/COL | 1 | 45 | 0.02 | 7 | — |
| 14 |  Brandon SaadFCOL | COL | 1 | 44 | 0.02 | 15 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2020-21?
Gabriel Landeskog leads with 8. The median of the 14 qualified skaters is 3.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2020-21?
Cale Makar leads NHL defensemen with 3; the top forward is Gabriel Landeskog at 8.
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).