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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Tampa Bay Lightning
2020-21All situationsThrough 56 team games
Brayden Point (TBL) and 
Ondrej Palat (TBL) lead NHL skaters with 6 GWG for the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2020-21, ahead of 
Yanni Gourde (TBL) (4).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Tampa Bay Lightning, 2020-21
- 1stBrayden PointTBL · 56 GP6
- 2ndOndrej PalatTBL · 55 GP6
- 3rdYanni GourdeTBL · 56 GP4
4thRoss ColtonTBL · 30 GP4
5thBlake ColemanTBL · 55 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 2 and Brayden Point leads at 6.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brayden PointFTBL | TBL | 6 | 56 | 0.11 | 23 | 92%▼1.7 |
| 2 | Ondrej PalatFTBL | TBL | 6 | 55 | 0.11 | 15 | 0.1% |
| 3 | Yanni GourdeFTBL | TBL | 4 | 56 | 0.07 | 17 | 4.9% |
| 4 | Ross ColtonFTBL | TBL | 4 | 30 | 0.13 | 9 | 7.3% |
| 5 | Blake ColemanFTBL | TBL | 3 | 55 | 0.05 | 14 | 39%▼2.2 |
| 6 |  Anthony CirelliFTBL | TBL | 3 | 50 | 0.06 | 9 | 44%▼2.2 |
| 7 |  Mathieu JosephFTBL | TBL | 2 | 56 | 0.04 | 12 | 4.1%▲0.9 |
| 8 |  Victor HedmanDTBL | TBL | 2 | 54 | 0.04 | 9 | 84%▼1 |
| 9 |  Alex KillornFTBL | TBL | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 15 | 5.1% |
| 10 |  Mikhail SergachevDTBL | TBL | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 4 | 100%▲1.4 |
| 11 |  Tyler JohnsonFTBL | TBL | 1 | 55 | 0.02 | 8 | — |
| 12 |  Barclay GoodrowFTBL | TBL | 1 | 55 | 0.02 | 6 | 0.1% |
| 13 |  David SavardDCBJ/TBL | CBJ/TBL | 1 | 54 | 0.02 | 1 | — |
| 14 |  Steven StamkosFTBL | TBL | 1 | 38 | 0.03 | 17 | 95%▲0.7 |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2020-21?
Brayden Point leads with 6. The median of the 14 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2020-21?
Victor Hedman leads NHL defensemen with 2; the top forward is Brayden Point 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).