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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Dallas Stars
2024-25All situationsThrough 82 team games
Roope Hintz (DAL) leads NHL skaters with 7 GWG for the Dallas Stars in 2024-25, ahead of 
Matt Duchene (DAL) (6).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Dallas Stars, 2024-25
- 1stRoope HintzDAL · 76 GP7
- 2ndMatt DucheneDAL · 82 GP6
3rdMikko RantanenCOL/DAL/CAR · 82 GP6
4thJason RobertsonDAL · 82 GP6
5thLogan StankovenDAL/CAR · 78 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, 16 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 4 and Roope Hintz leads at 7.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roope HintzFDAL | DAL | 7 | 76 | 0.09 | 28 | 82%▼1.2 |
| 2 | Matt DucheneFDAL | DAL | 6 | 82 | 0.07 | 30 | 51%▼4.9 |
| 3 | Mikko RantanenFCOL/DAL/CAR | COL/DAL/CAR | 6 | 82 | 0.07 | 32 | 99% |
| 4 | Jason RobertsonFDAL | DAL | 6 | 82 | 0.07 | 35 | 99% |
| 5 | Logan StankovenFDAL/CAR | DAL/CAR | 5 | 78 | 0.06 | 14 | 81%▲0.9 |
| 6 |  Mikael GranlundFSJS/DAL | SJS/DAL | 4 | 83 | 0.05 | 22 | 70%▲6.1 |
| 7 |  Wyatt JohnstonFDAL | DAL | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 33 | 99%▼1.1 |
| 8 |  Jamie BennFDAL | DAL | 4 | 80 | 0.05 | 16 | 17%▼1.7 |
| 9 |  Mason MarchmentFDAL | DAL | 4 | 62 | 0.06 | 22 | 36%▼4.6 |
| 10 |  Thomas HarleyDDAL | DAL | 3 | 78 | 0.04 | 16 | 82%▼1.2 |
| 11 |  Cody CeciDSJS/DAL | SJS/DAL | 2 | 85 | 0.02 | 4 | 0.2% |
| 12 |  Evgenii DadonovFDAL | DAL | 2 | 80 | 0.03 | 20 | 0.1% |
| 13 |  Tyler SeguinFDAL | DAL | 2 | 20 | 0.10 | 9 | 20%▲1.8 |
| 14 |  Sam SteelFDAL | DAL | 1 | 79 | 0.01 | 6 | 5.7% |
| 15 |  Mavrik BourqueFDAL | DAL | 1 | 73 | 0.01 | 11 | 30%▼0.9 |
| 16 |  Lian BichselDDAL | DAL | 1 | 38 | 0.03 | 4 | 20% |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2024-25?
Roope Hintz leads with 7. The median of the 16 qualified skaters is 4.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2024-25?
Thomas Harley leads NHL defensemen with 3; the top forward is Roope Hintz at 7.
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).