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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders
2023-24All situationsThrough 82 team games
Brayden Point (TBL) leads NHL skaters with 12 GWG in 2023-24, ahead of 
Filip Forsberg (NSH) (11).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, 2023-24
- 1stBrayden PointTBL · 81 GP12Share
- 2ndFilip ForsbergNSH · 82 GP11Share
3rdSam ReinhartFLA · 82 GP11Share
4thElias PetterssonVAN · 82 GP10Share
5thSebastian AhoCAR · 78 GP10Share
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 2023-24, 474 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Brayden Point leads at 12.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | Pctl | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brayden PointFTBL | TBL | 12 | 81 | 0.15 | 46 | 100 | 92%▼1.7 |
| 2 | Filip ForsbergFNSH | NSH | 11 | 82 | 0.13 | 48 | 100 | 99%▼0.6 |
| 3 | Sam ReinhartFFLA | FLA | 11 | 82 | 0.13 | 57 | 100 | 99%▲1.7 |
| 4 | Elias PetterssonFVAN | VAN | 10 | 82 | 0.12 | 34 | 99 | 95%▲1.1 |
| 5 | Sebastian AhoFCAR | CAR | 10 | 78 | 0.13 | 36 | 99 | 100% |
| 6 |  Kyle ConnorFWPG | WPG | 10 | 65 | 0.15 | 34 | 99 | 99% |
| 7 |  Nathan MacKinnonFCOL | COL | 9 | 82 | 0.11 | 51 | 98 | 100% |
| 8 |  J.T. MillerFVAN | VAN | 9 | 81 | 0.11 | 37 | 98 | 89%▼0.6 |
| 9 |  Seth JarvisFCAR | CAR | 9 | 81 | 0.11 | 33 | 98 | 94%▲1.1 |
| 10 |  Mikko RantanenFCOL | COL | 9 | 80 | 0.11 | 42 | 98 | 99% |
| 11 |  Kyle PalmieriFNYI | NYI | 8 | 82 | 0.10 | 30 | 98 | 13%▼0.8 |
| 12 |  Auston MatthewsFTOR | TOR | 8 | 81 | 0.10 | 69 | 98 | 99% |
| 13 |  Kirill KaprizovFMIN | MIN | 8 | 75 | 0.11 | 46 | 98 | 98% |
| 14 |  Andrei SvechnikovFCAR | CAR | 8 | 59 | 0.14 | 19 | 98 | 98% |
| 15 |  Chris KreiderFNYR | NYR | 7 | 82 | 0.09 | 39 | 95 | 55%▼6.4 |
| 16 |  Brandon SaadFSTL | STL | 7 | 82 | 0.09 | 26 | 95 | — |
| 17 |  William NylanderFTOR | TOR | 7 | 82 | 0.09 | 40 | 95 | 99% |
| 18 |  Nikolaj EhlersFWPG | WPG | 7 | 82 | 0.09 | 25 | 95 | 87%▼2 |
| 19 |  Frank VatranoFANA | ANA | 7 | 82 | 0.09 | 37 | 95 | 4.8%▼0.8 |
| 20 |  Jesper BrattFNJD | NJD | 7 | 82 | 0.09 | 27 | 95 | 95% |
| 21 |  Cole CaufieldFMTL | MTL | 7 | 82 | 0.09 | 28 | 95 | 100% |
| 22 |  Leon DraisaitlFEDM | EDM | 7 | 81 | 0.09 | 41 | 95 | 100% |
| 23 |  Evan BouchardDEDM | EDM | 7 | 81 | 0.09 | 18 | 95 | 100% |
| 24 |  Matt DucheneFDAL | DAL | 7 | 80 | 0.09 | 25 | 95 | 51%▼4.9 |
| 25 |  Zach HymanFEDM | EDM | 7 | 80 | 0.09 | 54 | 95 | 94% |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2023-24?
Brayden Point leads with 12. The median of the 474 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2023-24?
Evan Bouchard leads NHL defensemen with 7; the top forward is Brayden Point at 12.
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).