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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: New York Islanders
2022-23All situationsThrough 82 team games
Brock Nelson (NYI) leads NHL skaters with 8 GWG for the New York Islanders in 2022-23, ahead of 
Anthony Beauvillier (NYI/VAN) (5).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, New York Islanders, 2022-23
- 1stBrock NelsonNYI · 82 GP8
2ndAnthony BeauvillierNYI/VAN · 82 GP5
3rdBo HorvatVAN/NYI · 79 GP5
4thMathew BarzalNYI · 58 GP5
5thAnders LeeNYI · 82 GP4
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, 20 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Brock Nelson leads at 8.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brock NelsonFNYI | NYI | 8 | 82 | 0.10 | 36 | 88%▲1.4 |
| 2 | Anthony BeauvillierFNYI/VAN | NYI/VAN | 5 | 82 | 0.06 | 18 | 4.0% |
| 3 | Bo HorvatFVAN/NYI | VAN/NYI | 5 | 79 | 0.06 | 38 | 94%▲1.2 |
| 4 | Mathew BarzalFNYI | NYI | 5 | 58 | 0.09 | 14 | 80%▼1.2 |
| 5 | Anders LeeFNYI | NYI | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 28 | 29%▼0.6 |
| 6 |  Pierre EngvallFTOR/NYI | TOR/NYI | 4 | 76 | 0.05 | 17 | 0.0% |
| 7 |  Kyle PalmieriFNYI | NYI | 3 | 55 | 0.05 | 16 | 13%▼0.8 |
| 8 |  Zach PariseFNYI | NYI | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 21 | — |
| 9 |  Noah DobsonDNYI | NYI | 2 | 78 | 0.03 | 13 | 92%▼1.7 |
| 10 |  Jean-Gabriel PageauFNYI | NYI | 2 | 70 | 0.03 | 13 | 13%▲1.8 |
| 11 |  Josh BaileyFNYI | NYI | 2 | 64 | 0.03 | 8 | — |
| 12 |  Simon HolmstromFNYI | NYI | 2 | 50 | 0.04 | 6 | 14%▼0.8 |
| 13 |  Scott MayfieldDNYI | NYI | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 6 | 0.1% |
| 14 |  Ryan PulockDNYI | NYI | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 5 | 7.1%▼1 |
| 15 |  Matt MartinFNYI | NYI | 1 | 81 | 0.01 | 7 | — |
| 16 |  Cal ClutterbuckFNYI | NYI | 1 | 49 | 0.02 | 6 | — |
| 17 |  Hudson FaschingFNYI | NYI | 1 | 49 | 0.02 | 10 | — |
| 18 |  Oliver WahlstromFNYI | NYI | 1 | 35 | 0.03 | 7 | — |
| 19 |  Kieffer BellowsFPHI/NYI | PHI/NYI | 1 | 28 | 0.04 | 3 | — |
| 20 |  Samuel BolducDNYI | NYI | 1 | 17 | 0.06 | 2 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2022-23?
Brock Nelson leads with 8. The median of the 20 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2022-23?
Noah Dobson leads NHL defensemen with 2; the top forward is Brock Nelson at 8.
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).