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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Pittsburgh Penguins
2026-27All situationsThrough 11 team games
Tommy Novak (PIT) and 
Nick Robertson (PIT) lead NHL skaters with 1 GWG for the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2026-27.
Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Pittsburgh Penguins, 2026-27
- 1stTommy NovakPIT · 10 GP1
- 2ndNick RobertsonPIT · 10 GP1
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 2026-27, 2 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 1 and Tommy Novak leads at 1.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tommy NovakFPIT | PIT | 1 | 10 | 0.10 | 3 | 37%▼0.5 |
| 2 | Nick RobertsonFPIT | PIT | 1 | 10 | 0.10 | 4 | 26%▼1.2 |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2026-27?
Tommy Novak leads with 1. The median of the 2 qualified skaters is 1.
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).