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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Pittsburgh Penguins
2024-25All situationsThrough 82 team games
Sidney Crosby (PIT) leads NHL skaters with 10 GWG for the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2024-25, ahead of 
Philip Tomasino (PIT/NSH) (6).
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Pittsburgh Penguins, 2024-25
- 1stSidney CrosbyPIT · 80 GP10
2ndPhilip TomasinoPIT/NSH · 61 GP6
3rdBryan RustPIT · 71 GP5
4thEvgeni MalkinPIT · 68 GP3
5thDrew O'ConnorPIT/VAN · 84 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, 15 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 1 and Sidney Crosby leads at 10.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sidney CrosbyFPIT | PIT | 10 | 80 | 0.13 | 33 | 99% |
| 2 | Philip TomasinoFPIT/NSH | PIT/NSH | 6 | 61 | 0.10 | 11 | — |
| 3 | Bryan RustFPIT | PIT | 5 | 71 | 0.07 | 31 | 80%▼2.9 |
| 4 | Evgeni MalkinFPIT | PIT | 3 | 68 | 0.04 | 16 | 84%▼1 |
| 5 | Drew O'ConnorFPIT/VAN | PIT/VAN | 2 | 84 | 0.02 | 10 | 5.9% |
| 6 |  Tommy NovakFNSH/PIT | NSH/PIT | 2 | 54 | 0.04 | 13 | 37%▼0.5 |
| 7 |  Erik KarlssonDPIT | PIT | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 11 | 95% |
| 8 |  Rickard RakellFPIT | PIT | 1 | 81 | 0.01 | 35 | 70%▼6.3 |
| 9 |  Marcus PetterssonDPIT/VAN | PIT/VAN | 1 | 78 | 0.01 | 4 | 6.6%▲0.8 |
| 10 |  Michael BuntingFPIT/NSH | PIT/NSH | 1 | 76 | 0.01 | 19 | 3.6%▼0.8 |
| 11 |  Cody GlassFPIT/NJD | PIT/NJD | 1 | 65 | 0.02 | 6 | 4.1% |
| 12 |  Kevin HayesFPIT | PIT | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 13 | 0.0% |
| 13 |  Blake LizotteFPIT | PIT | 1 | 59 | 0.02 | 11 | 0.2% |
| 14 |  Vladislav KolyachonokDUTA/PIT | UTA/PIT | 1 | 35 | 0.03 | 2 | 0.0% |
| 15 |  Bokondji ImamaFPIT | PIT | 1 | 16 | 0.06 | 1 | 0.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2024-25?
Sidney Crosby leads with 10. The median of the 15 qualified skaters is 1.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2024-25?
Erik Karlsson leads NHL defensemen with 1; the top forward is Sidney Crosby at 10.
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).