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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Buffalo Sabres
2022-23All situationsThrough 82 team games
Alex Tuch (BUF) leads NHL skaters with 9 GWG for the Buffalo Sabres in 2022-23, ahead of 
Tage Thompson (BUF) (7).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Buffalo Sabres, 2022-23
- 1stAlex TuchBUF · 74 GP9
- 2ndTage ThompsonBUF · 78 GP7
3rdVictor OlofssonBUF · 75 GP5
4thJeff SkinnerBUF · 79 GP3
5thKyle OkposoBUF · 75 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 2022-23, 14 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Alex Tuch leads at 9.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alex TuchFBUF | BUF | 9 | 74 | 0.12 | 36 | 94% |
| 2 | Tage ThompsonFBUF | BUF | 7 | 78 | 0.09 | 47 | 100% |
| 3 | Victor OlofssonFBUF | BUF | 5 | 75 | 0.07 | 28 | 27%▲0.7 |
| 4 | Jeff SkinnerFBUF | BUF | 3 | 79 | 0.04 | 35 | 0.1% |
| 5 | Kyle OkposoFBUF | BUF | 3 | 75 | 0.04 | 11 | — |
| 6 |  Casey MittelstadtFBUF | BUF | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 15 | 11%▼0.8 |
| 7 |  Rasmus DahlinDBUF | BUF | 2 | 78 | 0.03 | 15 | 99%▼0.5 |
| 8 |  Jack QuinnFBUF | BUF | 2 | 75 | 0.03 | 14 | 76%▲25 |
| 9 |  Dylan CozensFBUF | BUF | 1 | 81 | 0.01 | 31 | 80%▼4.7 |
| 10 |  Owen PowerDBUF | BUF | 1 | 80 | 0.01 | 4 | 75%▲5 |
| 11 |  JJ PeterkaFBUF | BUF | 1 | 77 | 0.01 | 12 | 72%▼2.2 |
| 12 |  Ilya LyubushkinDBUF | BUF | 1 | 68 | 0.01 | 2 | 0.1% |
| 13 |  Vinnie HinostrozaFBUF | BUF | 1 | 26 | 0.04 | 2 | 0.0% |
| 14 |  Lawrence PilutDBUF | BUF | 1 | 17 | 0.06 | 1 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2022-23?
Alex Tuch leads with 9. The median of the 14 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2022-23?
Rasmus Dahlin leads NHL defensemen with 2; the top forward is Alex Tuch at 9.
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).