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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Vancouver Canucks
2020-21All situationsThrough 56 team games
J.T. Miller (VAN) leads NHL skaters with 4 GWG for the Vancouver Canucks in 2020-21, ahead of 
Bo Horvat (VAN) (3).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Vancouver Canucks, 2020-21
- 1stJ.T. MillerVAN · 53 GP4
- 2ndBo HorvatVAN · 56 GP3
3rdTyler MyersVAN · 55 GP3
4thTanner PearsonVAN · 51 GP2
5thBrock BoeserVAN · 56 GP1
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, 13 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 1 and J.T. Miller leads at 4.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J.T. MillerFVAN | VAN | 4 | 53 | 0.08 | 15 | 89%▼0.6 |
| 2 | Bo HorvatFVAN | VAN | 3 | 56 | 0.05 | 19 | 94%▲1.2 |
| 3 | Tyler MyersDVAN | VAN | 3 | 55 | 0.05 | 6 | 3.3% |
| 4 | Tanner PearsonFVAN | VAN | 2 | 51 | 0.04 | 10 | 0.0% |
| 5 | Brock BoeserFVAN | VAN | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 23 | 59%▼1.3 |
| 6 |  Nils HoglanderFVAN | VAN | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 13 | 7.4%▼0.9 |
| 7 |  Nate SchmidtDVAN | VAN | 1 | 54 | 0.02 | 5 | 4.9% |
| 8 |  Jimmy VeseyFTOR/VAN | TOR/VAN | 1 | 50 | 0.02 | 5 | — |
| 9 |  Matthew HighmoreFCHI/VAN | CHI/VAN | 1 | 42 | 0.02 | 3 | — |
| 10 |  Jake VirtanenFVAN | VAN | 1 | 38 | 0.03 | 5 | — |
| 11 |  Jayce HawrylukFVAN | VAN | 1 | 30 | 0.03 | 2 | — |
| 12 |  Elias PetterssonFVAN | VAN | 1 | 26 | 0.04 | 10 | 95%▲1.1 |
| 13 |  Tyler MotteFVAN | VAN | 1 | 24 | 0.04 | 6 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2020-21?
J.T. Miller leads with 4. The median of the 13 qualified skaters is 1.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2020-21?
Tyler Myers leads NHL defensemen with 3; the top forward is J.T. Miller 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).