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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Vegas Golden Knights
2021-22All situationsThrough 82 team games
Shea Theodore (VGK) leads NHL skaters with 5 GWG for the Vegas Golden Knights in 2021-22, ahead of 
Evgenii Dadonov (VGK) (4).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Vegas Golden Knights, 2021-22
- 1stShea TheodoreVGK · 78 GP5
- 2ndEvgenii DadonovVGK · 78 GP4
3rdJonathan MarchessaultVGK · 76 GP4
4thMax PaciorettyVGK · 39 GP4
5thChandler StephensonVGK · 79 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 2021-22, 16 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Shea Theodore leads at 5.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shea TheodoreDVGK | VGK | 5 | 78 | 0.06 | 14 | 90%▼2.7 |
| 2 | Evgenii DadonovFVGK | VGK | 4 | 78 | 0.05 | 20 | 0.1% |
| 3 | Jonathan MarchessaultFVGK | VGK | 4 | 76 | 0.05 | 30 | 19% |
| 4 | Max PaciorettyFVGK | VGK | 4 | 39 | 0.10 | 19 | — |
| 5 | Chandler StephensonFVGK | VGK | 3 | 79 | 0.04 | 21 | 27%▲3.3 |
| 6 |  Nicolas RoyFVGK | VGK | 3 | 78 | 0.04 | 15 | 11%▼1.3 |
| 7 |  Reilly SmithFVGK | VGK | 3 | 56 | 0.05 | 16 | — |
| 8 |  Peyton KrebsFBUF/VGK | BUF/VGK | 2 | 57 | 0.04 | 7 | 16%▼0.8 |
| 9 |  Michael AmadioFVGK/TOR | VGK/TOR | 2 | 56 | 0.04 | 11 | 5.0%▼0.9 |
| 10 |  Brett HowdenFVGK | VGK | 2 | 47 | 0.04 | 9 | 24%▲9 |
| 11 |  Mark StoneFVGK | VGK | 2 | 37 | 0.05 | 9 | 96%▲1.2 |
| 12 |  Jack EichelFVGK | VGK | 2 | 34 | 0.06 | 14 | 100% |
| 13 |  Adam BrooksFWPG/VGK/MTL | WPG/VGK/MTL | 2 | 25 | 0.08 | 2 | — |
| 14 |  Mattias JanmarkFVGK | VGK | 1 | 67 | 0.01 | 9 | 0.0% |
| 15 |  Dylan CoghlanDVGK | VGK | 1 | 60 | 0.02 | 3 | 0.1% |
| 16 |  Zach WhitecloudDVGK | VGK | 1 | 59 | 0.02 | 8 | 6.5%▲0.8 |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2021-22?
Shea Theodore leads with 5. The median of the 16 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2021-22?
Shea Theodore leads NHL defensemen with 5; the top forward is Evgenii Dadonov 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).