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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Boston Bruins
2024-25All situationsThrough 82 team games
Pavel Zacha (BOS) and 
Brad Marchand (BOS/FLA) lead NHL skaters with 5 GWG for the Boston Bruins in 2024-25, ahead of 
David Pastrnak (BOS) (4).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Boston Bruins, 2024-25
- 1stPavel ZachaBOS · 82 GP5
2ndBrad MarchandBOS/FLA · 71 GP5- 3rdDavid PastrnakBOS · 82 GP4
4thMorgan GeekieBOS · 77 GP4
5thCharlie CoyleBOS/COL · 83 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 2024-25, 17 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Pavel Zacha leads at 5.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pavel ZachaFBOS | BOS | 5 | 82 | 0.06 | 14 | 69%▼0.5 |
| 2 | Brad MarchandFBOS/FLA | BOS/FLA | 5 | 71 | 0.07 | 23 | 65%▼2.8 |
| 3 | David PastrnakFBOS | BOS | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 43 | 100% |
| 4 | Morgan GeekieFBOS | BOS | 4 | 77 | 0.05 | 33 | 94% |
| 5 | Charlie CoyleFBOS/COL | BOS/COL | 3 | 83 | 0.04 | 17 | 47%▼0.5 |
| 6 |  Elias LindholmFBOS | BOS | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 17 | 43%▲1.9 |
| 7 |  Casey MittelstadtFCOL/BOS | COL/BOS | 3 | 81 | 0.04 | 15 | 11%▼0.8 |
| 8 |  Justin BrazeauFBOS/MIN | BOS/MIN | 3 | 76 | 0.04 | 11 | 8.9%▼0.8 |
| 9 |  Cole KoepkeFBOS | BOS | 2 | 73 | 0.03 | 10 | 0.0% |
| 10 |  Henri JokiharjuDBUF/BOS | BUF/BOS | 2 | 60 | 0.03 | 3 | 0.1% |
| 11 |  Jakub LaukoFMIN/BOS | MIN/BOS | 2 | 56 | 0.04 | 5 | — |
| 12 |  Charlie McAvoyDBOS | BOS | 2 | 50 | 0.04 | 7 | 97%▲1.3 |
| 13 |  Oliver WahlstromFNYI/BOS | NYI/BOS | 1 | 43 | 0.02 | 3 | — |
| 14 |  Matthew PoitrasFBOS | BOS | 1 | 33 | 0.03 | 1 | 16%▲4.1 |
| 15 |  Fraser MintenFTOR/BOS | TOR/BOS | 1 | 21 | 0.05 | 3 | 68%▲23 |
| 16 |  Hampus LindholmDBOS | BOS | 1 | 17 | 0.06 | 3 | 20%▲0.8 |
| 17 |  Fabian LysellFBOS | BOS | 1 | 12 | 0.08 | 1 | 11% |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2024-25?
Pavel Zacha leads with 5. The median of the 17 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2024-25?
Henri Jokiharju leads NHL defensemen with 2; the top forward is Pavel Zacha at 5.
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).