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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Philadelphia Flyers
2020-21All situationsThrough 56 team games
Sean Couturier (PHI) leads NHL skaters with 4 GWG for the Philadelphia Flyers in 2020-21, ahead of 
Michael Raffl (PHI/WSH) (3).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Philadelphia Flyers, 2020-21
- 1stSean CouturierPHI · 45 GP4
2ndMichael RafflPHI/WSH · 44 GP3
3rdIvan ProvorovPHI · 56 GP2
4thKevin HayesPHI · 55 GP2
5thClaude GirouxPHI · 54 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, 14 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 1 and Sean Couturier leads at 4.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sean CouturierFPHI | PHI | 4 | 45 | 0.09 | 18 | 8.3% |
| 2 | Michael RafflFPHI/WSH | PHI/WSH | 3 | 44 | 0.07 | 4 | — |
| 3 | Ivan ProvorovDPHI | PHI | 2 | 56 | 0.04 | 7 | 31%▼1.3 |
| 4 | Kevin HayesFPHI | PHI | 2 | 55 | 0.04 | 12 | 0.0% |
| 5 | Claude GirouxFPHI | PHI | 2 | 54 | 0.04 | 16 | 32%▲0.9 |
| 6 |  Jakub VoracekFPHI | PHI | 2 | 53 | 0.04 | 9 | — |
| 7 |  James van RiemsdykFPHI | PHI | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 17 | 0.3% |
| 8 |  Travis SanheimDPHI | PHI | 1 | 55 | 0.02 | 3 | 65%▼0.6 |
| 9 |  Joel FarabeeFPHI | PHI | 1 | 55 | 0.02 | 20 | 13%▲1.6 |
| 10 |  Scott LaughtonFPHI | PHI | 1 | 53 | 0.02 | 9 | 4.9% |
| 11 |  Oskar LindblomFPHI | PHI | 1 | 50 | 0.02 | 8 | — |
| 12 |  Travis KonecnyFPHI | PHI | 1 | 50 | 0.02 | 11 | 85%▼3 |
| 13 |  Samuel MorinFPHI | PHI | 1 | 20 | 0.05 | 1 | — |
| 14 |  Wade AllisonFPHI | PHI | 1 | 14 | 0.07 | 4 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2020-21?
Sean Couturier leads with 4. The median of the 14 qualified skaters is 1.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2020-21?
Ivan Provorov leads NHL defensemen with 2; the top forward is Sean Couturier at 4.
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).