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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Buffalo Sabres
2021-22All situationsThrough 82 team games
Victor Olofsson (BUF) leads NHL skaters with 6 GWG for the Buffalo Sabres in 2021-22, ahead of 
Jeff Skinner (BUF) (4).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Buffalo Sabres, 2021-22
- 1stVictor OlofssonBUF · 72 GP6
- 2ndJeff SkinnerBUF · 80 GP4
3rdTage ThompsonBUF · 78 GP4
4thRasmus DahlinBUF · 80 GP3
5thVinnie HinostrozaBUF · 62 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 2021-22, 14 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 1 and Victor Olofsson leads at 6.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victor OlofssonFBUF | BUF | 6 | 72 | 0.08 | 20 | 27%▲0.7 |
| 2 | Jeff SkinnerFBUF | BUF | 4 | 80 | 0.05 | 33 | 0.1% |
| 3 | Tage ThompsonFBUF | BUF | 4 | 78 | 0.05 | 38 | 100% |
| 4 | Rasmus DahlinDBUF | BUF | 3 | 80 | 0.04 | 13 | 99%▼0.5 |
| 5 | Vinnie HinostrozaFBUF | BUF | 2 | 62 | 0.03 | 13 | 0.0% |
| 6 |  Peyton KrebsFBUF/VGK | BUF/VGK | 2 | 57 | 0.04 | 7 | 16%▼0.8 |
| 7 |  Rasmus AsplundFBUF | BUF | 1 | 80 | 0.01 | 8 | — |
| 8 |  Dylan CozensFBUF | BUF | 1 | 79 | 0.01 | 13 | 80%▼4.7 |
| 9 |  Kyle OkposoFBUF | BUF | 1 | 74 | 0.01 | 21 | — |
| 10 |  Cody EakinFBUF | BUF | 1 | 69 | 0.01 | 4 | — |
| 11 |  Zemgus GirgensonsFBUF | BUF | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 10 | 4.1%▲0.9 |
| 12 |  Casey MittelstadtFBUF | BUF | 1 | 40 | 0.03 | 6 | 11%▼0.8 |
| 13 |  Mark JankowskiFBUF | BUF | 1 | 19 | 0.05 | 2 | 23%▲14 |
| 14 |  Drake CaggiulaFBUF | BUF | 1 | 18 | 0.06 | 2 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2021-22?
Victor Olofsson leads with 6. The median of the 14 qualified skaters is 1.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2021-22?
Rasmus Dahlin leads NHL defensemen with 3; the top forward is Victor Olofsson 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).