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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Vancouver Canucks
2022-23All situationsThrough 82 team games
Elias Pettersson (VAN) leads NHL skaters with 6 GWG for the Vancouver Canucks in 2022-23, ahead of 
Anthony Beauvillier (NYI/VAN) (5).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Vancouver Canucks, 2022-23
- 1stElias PetterssonVAN · 80 GP6
2ndAnthony BeauvillierNYI/VAN · 82 GP5
3rdBo HorvatVAN/NYI · 79 GP5
4thAndrei KuzmenkoVAN · 81 GP4
5thJ.T. MillerVAN · 81 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, 13 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Elias Pettersson leads at 6.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elias PetterssonFVAN | VAN | 6 | 80 | 0.07 | 39 | 95%▲1.1 |
| 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 | Andrei KuzmenkoFVAN | VAN | 4 | 81 | 0.05 | 39 | 8.1%▼0.8 |
| 5 | J.T. MillerFVAN | VAN | 3 | 81 | 0.04 | 32 | 89%▼0.6 |
| 6 |  Brock BoeserFVAN | VAN | 3 | 74 | 0.04 | 18 | 59%▼1.3 |
| 7 |  Conor GarlandFVAN | VAN | 2 | 81 | 0.02 | 17 | 7.6%▼0.8 |
| 8 |  Dakota JoshuaFVAN | VAN | 2 | 79 | 0.03 | 11 | 3.2%▼0.8 |
| 9 |  Ilya MikheyevFVAN | VAN | 2 | 46 | 0.04 | 13 | 6.7%▼0.8 |
| 10 |  Nils AmanFVAN | VAN | 1 | 68 | 0.01 | 4 | 0.0% |
| 11 |  Filip HronekDDET/VAN | DET/VAN | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 9 | 94% |
| 12 |  Ethan BearDVAN | VAN | 1 | 61 | 0.02 | 3 | 0.0% |
| 13 |  Jack StudnickaFVAN/BOS | VAN/BOS | 1 | 48 | 0.02 | 4 | 0.0% |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2022-23?
Elias Pettersson leads with 6. The median of the 13 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2022-23?
Filip Hronek leads NHL defensemen with 1; the top forward is Elias Pettersson 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).