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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Buffalo Sabres
2024-25All situationsThrough 82 team games
Tage Thompson (BUF) leads NHL skaters with 6 GWG for the Buffalo Sabres in 2024-25, ahead of 
Josh Norris (OTT/BUF) (5).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Buffalo Sabres, 2024-25
- 1stTage ThompsonBUF · 76 GP6
2ndJosh NorrisOTT/BUF · 56 GP5
3rdAlex TuchBUF · 82 GP4
4thJason ZuckerBUF · 73 GP4
5thJJ PeterkaBUF · 77 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, 13 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 3 and Tage Thompson leads at 6.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tage ThompsonFBUF | BUF | 6 | 76 | 0.08 | 44 | 100% |
| 2 | Josh NorrisFOTT/BUF | OTT/BUF | 5 | 56 | 0.09 | 21 | 31%▼2.6 |
| 3 | Alex TuchFBUF | BUF | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 36 | 94% |
| 4 | Jason ZuckerFBUF | BUF | 4 | 73 | 0.05 | 21 | 21%▼0.8 |
| 5 | JJ PeterkaFBUF | BUF | 3 | 77 | 0.04 | 27 | 72%▼2.2 |
| 6 |  Jack QuinnFBUF | BUF | 3 | 74 | 0.04 | 15 | 76%▲25 |
| 7 |  Jiri KulichFBUF | BUF | 3 | 62 | 0.05 | 15 | 24%▼0.8 |
| 8 |  Bowen ByramDBUF | BUF | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 7 | 87%▼2.3 |
| 9 |  Dylan CozensFBUF/OTT | BUF/OTT | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 16 | 80%▼4.7 |
| 10 |  Ryan McLeodFBUF | BUF | 2 | 79 | 0.03 | 20 | 20%▼1.7 |
| 11 |  Henri JokiharjuDBUF/BOS | BUF/BOS | 2 | 60 | 0.03 | 3 | 0.1% |
| 12 |  Rasmus DahlinDBUF | BUF | 1 | 73 | 0.01 | 17 | 99%▼0.5 |
| 13 |  Mattias SamuelssonDBUF | BUF | 1 | 62 | 0.02 | 4 | 81%▲4.9 |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2024-25?
Tage Thompson leads with 6. The median of the 13 qualified skaters is 3.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2024-25?
Bowen Byram leads NHL defensemen with 2; the top forward is Tage Thompson 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).