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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Colorado Avalanche
2024-25All situationsThrough 82 team games
Martin Necas (CAR/COL) leads NHL skaters with 8 GWG for the Colorado Avalanche in 2024-25, ahead of 
Brock Nelson (NYI/COL) (7).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Colorado Avalanche, 2024-25
1stMartin NecasCAR/COL · 79 GP8
2ndBrock NelsonNYI/COL · 80 GP7
3rdMikko RantanenCOL/DAL/CAR · 82 GP6
4thNathan MacKinnonCOL · 79 GP5
5thArtturi LehkonenCOL · 69 GP5
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 3 and Martin Necas leads at 8.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin NecasFCAR/COL | CAR/COL | 8 | 79 | 0.10 | 27 | 100% |
| 2 | Brock NelsonFNYI/COL | NYI/COL | 7 | 80 | 0.09 | 26 | 88%▲1.4 |
| 3 | Mikko RantanenFCOL/DAL/CAR | COL/DAL/CAR | 6 | 82 | 0.07 | 32 | 99% |
| 4 | Nathan MacKinnonFCOL | COL | 5 | 79 | 0.06 | 32 | 100% |
| 5 | Artturi LehkonenFCOL | COL | 5 | 69 | 0.07 | 27 | 83%▲6.8 |
| 6 |  Cale MakarDCOL | COL | 4 | 80 | 0.05 | 30 | 100% |
| 7 |  Devon ToewsDCOL | COL | 4 | 76 | 0.05 | 10 | 82%▲8.8 |
| 8 |  Charlie CoyleFBOS/COL | BOS/COL | 3 | 83 | 0.04 | 17 | 47%▼0.5 |
| 9 |  Casey MittelstadtFCOL/BOS | COL/BOS | 3 | 81 | 0.04 | 15 | 11%▼0.8 |
| 10 |  Ross ColtonFCOL | COL | 3 | 61 | 0.05 | 16 | 7.3% |
| 11 |  Parker KellyFCOL | COL | 2 | 80 | 0.03 | 8 | 17%▼1.2 |
| 12 |  Joel KivirantaFCOL | COL | 2 | 79 | 0.03 | 16 | 0.1% |
| 13 |  Samuel GirardDCOL | COL | 2 | 73 | 0.03 | 3 | 28%▲5 |
| 14 |  Jack DruryFCAR/COL | CAR/COL | 2 | 72 | 0.03 | 8 | 4.8% |
| 15 |  Jonathan DrouinFCOL | COL | 2 | 43 | 0.05 | 11 | 0.4% |
| 16 |  Logan O'ConnorFCOL | COL | 1 | 80 | 0.01 | 10 | 0.2% |
| 17 |  Miles WoodFCOL | COL | 1 | 37 | 0.03 | 4 | 0.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2024-25?
Martin Necas leads with 8. The median of the 17 qualified skaters is 3.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2024-25?
Cale Makar leads NHL defensemen with 4; the top forward is Martin Necas 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).