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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: New York Islanders
2024-25All situationsThrough 82 team games
Bo Horvat (NYI) and 
Brock Nelson (NYI/COL) lead NHL skaters with 7 GWG for the New York Islanders in 2024-25, ahead of 
Anders Lee (NYI) (3).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, New York Islanders, 2024-25
- 1stBo HorvatNYI · 81 GP7
2ndBrock NelsonNYI/COL · 80 GP7- 3rdAnders LeeNYI · 82 GP3
4thSimon HolmstromNYI · 75 GP3
5thKyle PalmieriNYI · 82 GP2
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 1 and Bo Horvat leads at 7.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bo HorvatFNYI | NYI | 7 | 81 | 0.09 | 28 | 94%▲1.2 |
| 2 | Brock NelsonFNYI/COL | NYI/COL | 7 | 80 | 0.09 | 26 | 88%▲1.4 |
| 3 | Anders LeeFNYI | NYI | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 29 | 29%▼0.6 |
| 4 | Simon HolmstromFNYI | NYI | 3 | 75 | 0.04 | 20 | 14%▼0.8 |
| 5 | Kyle PalmieriFNYI | NYI | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 24 | 13%▼0.8 |
| 6 |  Pierre EngvallFNYI | NYI | 2 | 62 | 0.03 | 8 | 0.0% |
| 7 |  Casey CizikasFNYI | NYI | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 7 | 3.2% |
| 8 |  Jean-Gabriel PageauFNYI | NYI | 1 | 79 | 0.01 | 14 | 13%▲1.8 |
| 9 |  Maxim TsyplakovFNYI | NYI | 1 | 77 | 0.01 | 10 | 9.9% |
| 10 |  Ryan PulockDNYI | NYI | 1 | 74 | 0.01 | 5 | 7.1%▼1 |
| 11 |  Noah DobsonDNYI | NYI | 1 | 71 | 0.01 | 10 | 92%▼1.7 |
| 12 |  Oliver WahlstromFNYI/BOS | NYI/BOS | 1 | 43 | 0.02 | 3 | — |
| 13 |  Marc GatcombFNYI | NYI | 1 | 39 | 0.03 | 8 | 6.5%▼0.8 |
| 14 |  Tony DeAngeloDNYI | NYI | 1 | 35 | 0.03 | 4 | 19%▼0.8 |
| 15 |  Isaiah GeorgeDNYI | NYI | 1 | 33 | 0.03 | 1 | 4.0% |
| 16 |  Mathew BarzalFNYI | NYI | 1 | 30 | 0.03 | 6 | 80%▼1.2 |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2024-25?
Bo Horvat leads with 7. The median of the 16 qualified skaters is 1.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2024-25?
Ryan Pulock leads NHL defensemen with 1; the top forward is Bo Horvat 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).