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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Chicago Blackhawks
2025-26All situationsThrough 82 team games
Connor Bedard (CHI) leads NHL skaters with 5 GWG for the Chicago Blackhawks in 2025-26, ahead of 
Tyler Bertuzzi (CHI) (3).
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Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Chicago Blackhawks, 2025-26
- 1stConnor BedardCHI · 69 GP5
- 2ndTyler BertuzziCHI · 79 GP3
3rdFrank NazarCHI · 66 GP3
4thRyan DonatoCHI · 82 GP2
5thIlya MikheyevCHI · 77 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 2025-26, 17 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 1 and Connor Bedard leads at 5.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connor BedardFCHI | CHI | 5 | 69 | 0.07 | 30 | 98%▲0.7 |
| 2 | Tyler BertuzziFCHI | CHI | 3 | 79 | 0.04 | 32 | 50%▼2.2 |
| 3 | Frank NazarFCHI | CHI | 3 | 66 | 0.05 | 15 | 49%▼0.8 |
| 4 | Ryan DonatoFCHI | CHI | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 15 | 8.1% |
| 5 | Ilya MikheyevFCHI | CHI | 2 | 77 | 0.03 | 18 | 6.7%▼0.8 |
| 6 |  Teuvo TeravainenFCHI | CHI | 2 | 75 | 0.03 | 14 | 12%▲0.9 |
| 7 |  Ryan GreeneFCHI | CHI | 1 | 81 | 0.01 | 12 | 8.8%▼0.8 |
| 8 |  Louis CrevierDCHI | CHI | 1 | 78 | 0.01 | 7 | 14%▼0.8 |
| 9 |  Wyatt KaiserDCHI | CHI | 1 | 77 | 0.01 | 6 | 6.5% |
| 10 |  Andre BurakovskyFCHI | CHI | 1 | 75 | 0.01 | 11 | 4.8%▼1.7 |
| 11 |  Jason DickinsonFCHI/EDM | CHI/EDM | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 7 | 3.2% |
| 12 |  Andrew MangiapaneFEDM/CHI | EDM/CHI | 1 | 62 | 0.02 | 8 | 3.2% |
| 13 |  Colton DachFCHI/EDM | CHI/EDM | 1 | 61 | 0.02 | 5 | 9.7% |
| 14 |  Sam RinzelDCHI | CHI | 1 | 54 | 0.02 | 4 | 31%▼0.8 |
| 15 |  Landon SlaggertFCHI | CHI | 1 | 53 | 0.02 | 3 | 0.0% |
| 16 |  Lukas ReichelFVAN/BOS/CHI | VAN/BOS/CHI | 1 | 29 | 0.03 | 3 | 4.8% |
| 17 |  Sacha BoisvertFCHI | CHI | 1 | 7 | 0.14 | 1 | 14%▼0.8 |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Connor Bedard leads with 5. The median of the 17 qualified skaters is 1.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Louis Crevier leads NHL defensemen with 1; the top forward is Connor Bedard at 5.
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).