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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Ottawa Senators
2020-21All situationsThrough 56 team games
4 NHL skaters share the lead with 3 GWG for the Ottawa Senators in 2020-21.
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Ottawa Senators, 2020-21
1stDrake BathersonOTT · 56 GP3
2ndBrady TkachukOTT · 56 GP3
3rdEvgenii DadonovOTT · 55 GP3
4thChris TierneyOTT · 55 GP3
5thJosh NorrisOTT · 56 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 2020-21, 11 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Drake Batherson leads at 3.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drake BathersonFOTT | OTT | 3 | 56 | 0.05 | 17 | 96%▼0.9 |
| 2 | Brady TkachukFOTT | OTT | 3 | 56 | 0.05 | 17 | 100%▲1 |
| 3 | Evgenii DadonovFOTT | OTT | 3 | 55 | 0.05 | 13 | 0.1% |
| 4 | Chris TierneyFOTT | OTT | 3 | 55 | 0.05 | 6 | — |
| 5 | Josh NorrisFOTT | OTT | 2 | 56 | 0.04 | 17 | 31%▼2.6 |
| 6 |  Tim StützleFOTT | OTT | 2 | 53 | 0.04 | 12 | 100% |
| 7 |  Connor BrownFOTT | OTT | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 21 | 5.8% |
| 8 |  Nikita ZaitsevDOTT | OTT | 1 | 55 | 0.02 | 4 | — |
| 9 |  Thomas ChabotDOTT | OTT | 1 | 49 | 0.02 | 6 | 87%▼1.3 |
| 10 |  Artem ZubDOTT | OTT | 1 | 47 | 0.02 | 3 | 13%▲4.6 |
| 11 |  Erik GudbransonDOTT/NSH | OTT/NSH | 1 | 45 | 0.02 | 1 | 0.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2020-21?
Drake Batherson leads with 3. The median of the 11 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2020-21?
Nikita Zaitsev leads NHL defensemen with 1; the top forward is Drake Batherson 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).