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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders
2021-22All situationsThrough 82 team games
4 NHL skaters share the lead with 11 GWG in 2021-22.
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, 2021-22
1stSteven StamkosTBL · 81 GP11Share
2ndChris KreiderNYR · 81 GP11Share
3rdLeon DraisaitlEDM · 80 GP11Share
4thJason RobertsonDAL · 74 GP11Share
5thAuston MatthewsTOR · 73 GP10Share
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 2021-22, 468 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Steven Stamkos leads at 11.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | Pctl | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steven StamkosFTBL | TBL | 11 | 81 | 0.14 | 42 | 100 | 95%▲0.7 |
| 2 | Chris KreiderFNYR | NYR | 11 | 81 | 0.14 | 52 | 100 | 55%▼6.4 |
| 3 | Leon DraisaitlFEDM | EDM | 11 | 80 | 0.14 | 55 | 100 | 100% |
| 4 | Jason RobertsonFDAL | DAL | 11 | 74 | 0.15 | 41 | 100 | 99% |
| 5 | Auston MatthewsFTOR | TOR | 10 | 73 | 0.14 | 60 | 99 | 99% |
| 6 |  Johnny GaudreauFCGY | CGY | 9 | 82 | 0.11 | 40 | 98 | — |
| 7 |  Elias LindholmFCGY | CGY | 9 | 82 | 0.11 | 42 | 98 | 43%▲1.9 |
| 8 |  Connor McDavidFEDM | EDM | 9 | 80 | 0.11 | 44 | 98 | 100% |
| 9 |  Kyle ConnorFWPG | WPG | 9 | 79 | 0.11 | 47 | 98 | 99% |
| 10 |  Sebastian AhoFCAR | CAR | 9 | 79 | 0.11 | 37 | 98 | 100% |
| 11 |  Vladimir TarasenkoFSTL | STL | 9 | 75 | 0.12 | 34 | 98 | 7.4%▼0.9 |
| 12 |  David PastrnakFBOS | BOS | 9 | 72 | 0.13 | 40 | 98 | 100% |
| 13 |  Sidney CrosbyFPIT | PIT | 9 | 69 | 0.13 | 31 | 98 | 99% |
| 14 |  Andrew MangiapaneFCGY | CGY | 8 | 82 | 0.10 | 35 | 97 | 3.2% |
| 15 |  Timo MeierFSJS | SJS | 8 | 77 | 0.10 | 35 | 97 | 75%▼2.5 |
| 16 |  Jake DeBruskFBOS | BOS | 8 | 77 | 0.10 | 25 | 97 | 45%▼2.1 |
| 17 |  Filip ForsbergFNSH | NSH | 8 | 69 | 0.12 | 42 | 97 | 99%▼0.6 |
| 18 |  Josh NorrisFOTT | OTT | 8 | 66 | 0.12 | 35 | 97 | 31%▼2.6 |
| 19 |  Ryan HartmanFMIN | MIN | 7 | 82 | 0.09 | 34 | 95 | 28%▼4.1 |
| 20 |  Kevin FialaFMIN | MIN | 7 | 82 | 0.09 | 33 | 95 | 64% |
| 21 |  William NylanderFTOR | TOR | 7 | 81 | 0.09 | 34 | 95 | 99% |
| 22 |  Jonathan HuberdeauFFLA | FLA | 7 | 80 | 0.09 | 30 | 95 | 15%▼0.8 |
| 23 |  Roope HintzFDAL | DAL | 7 | 80 | 0.09 | 37 | 95 | 82%▼1.2 |
| 24 |  Adrian KempeFLAK | LAK | 7 | 78 | 0.09 | 35 | 95 | 95%▼0.9 |
| 25 |  Jake GuentzelFPIT | PIT | 7 | 76 | 0.09 | 40 | 95 | 100%▲0.5 |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2021-22?
Steven Stamkos leads with 11. The median of the 468 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2021-22?
Victor Hedman leads NHL defensemen with 6; the top forward is Steven Stamkos at 11.
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).