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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Dallas Stars
2025-26All situationsThrough 82 team games
Jason Robertson (DAL) leads NHL skaters with 9 GWG for the Dallas Stars in 2025-26, ahead of 
Sam Steel (DAL) (5).
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Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Dallas Stars, 2025-26
- 1stJason RobertsonDAL · 82 GP9
- 2ndSam SteelDAL · 73 GP5
3rdWyatt JohnstonDAL · 82 GP4
4thThomas HarleyDAL · 70 GP4
5thMatt DucheneDAL · 57 GP4
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, 18 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Jason Robertson leads at 9.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jason RobertsonFDAL | DAL | 9 | 82 | 0.11 | 45 | 99% |
| 2 | Sam SteelFDAL | DAL | 5 | 73 | 0.07 | 12 | 5.7% |
| 3 | Wyatt JohnstonFDAL | DAL | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 45 | 99%▼1.1 |
| 4 | Thomas HarleyDDAL | DAL | 4 | 70 | 0.06 | 6 | 82%▼1.2 |
| 5 | Matt DucheneFDAL | DAL | 4 | 57 | 0.07 | 16 | 51%▼4.9 |
| 6 |  Miro HeiskanenDDAL | DAL | 3 | 77 | 0.04 | 9 | 100%▲1.5 |
| 7 |  Jamie BennFDAL | DAL | 3 | 60 | 0.05 | 15 | 17%▼1.7 |
| 8 |  Lian BichselDDAL | DAL | 2 | 50 | 0.04 | 4 | 20% |
| 9 |  Tyler SeguinFDAL | DAL | 2 | 27 | 0.07 | 7 | 20%▲1.8 |
| 10 |  Esa LindellDDAL | DAL | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 6 | 28%▼4.1 |
| 11 |  Mavrik BourqueFDAL | DAL | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 20 | 30%▼0.9 |
| 12 |  Justin HryckowianFDAL | DAL | 1 | 81 | 0.01 | 14 | 14%▼1.6 |
| 13 |  Michael BuntingFNSH/DAL | NSH/DAL | 1 | 74 | 0.01 | 14 | 3.6%▼0.8 |
| 14 |  Oskar BäckFDAL | DAL | 1 | 72 | 0.01 | 5 | 0.1% |
| 15 |  Colin BlackwellFDAL | DAL | 1 | 70 | 0.01 | 4 | 0.1% |
| 16 |  Mikko RantanenFDAL | DAL | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 22 | 99% |
| 17 |  Roope HintzFDAL | DAL | 1 | 53 | 0.02 | 15 | 82%▼1.2 |
| 18 |  Vladislav KolyachonokDDAL/BOS | DAL/BOS | 1 | 13 | 0.08 | 1 | 0.0% |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Jason Robertson leads with 9. The median of the 18 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Thomas Harley leads NHL defensemen with 4; the top forward is Jason Robertson at 9.
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).