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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Edmonton Oilers
2025-26All situationsThrough 82 team games
4 NHL skaters share the lead with 5 GWG for the Edmonton Oilers in 2025-26.
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Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Edmonton Oilers, 2025-26
1stEvan BouchardEDM · 82 GP5
2ndVasily PodkolzinEDM · 82 GP5
3rdMatt SavoieEDM · 82 GP5
4thJack RoslovicEDM · 69 GP5
5thConnor McDavidEDM · 82 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, 19 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Evan Bouchard leads at 5.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evan BouchardDEDM | EDM | 5 | 82 | 0.06 | 21 | 100% |
| 2 | Vasily PodkolzinFEDM | EDM | 5 | 82 | 0.06 | 19 | 90%▲3.3 |
| 3 | Matt SavoieFEDM | EDM | 5 | 82 | 0.06 | 18 | 34%▼0.8 |
| 4 | Jack RoslovicFEDM | EDM | 5 | 69 | 0.07 | 21 | 44%▲11 |
| 5 | Connor McDavidFEDM | EDM | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 48 | 100% |
| 6 |  Leon DraisaitlFEDM | EDM | 3 | 65 | 0.05 | 35 | 100% |
| 7 |  Mattias EkholmDEDM | EDM | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 6 | 68% |
| 8 |  Ryan Nugent-HopkinsFEDM | EDM | 2 | 72 | 0.03 | 20 | 73%▼0.9 |
| 9 |  Zach HymanFEDM | EDM | 2 | 58 | 0.03 | 31 | 94% |
| 10 |  Max JonesFEDM | EDM | 2 | 21 | 0.10 | 3 | 0.1% |
| 11 |  Trent FredericFEDM | EDM | 1 | 74 | 0.01 | 4 | 4.0%▼0.8 |
| 12 |  Ty EmbersonDEDM | EDM | 1 | 72 | 0.01 | 2 | 0.1% |
| 13 |  Jason DickinsonFCHI/EDM | CHI/EDM | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 7 | 3.2% |
| 14 |  Troy StecherDTOR/EDM | TOR/EDM | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 3 | 0.2% |
| 15 |  Andrew MangiapaneFEDM/CHI | EDM/CHI | 1 | 62 | 0.02 | 8 | 3.2% |
| 16 |  Colton DachFCHI/EDM | CHI/EDM | 1 | 61 | 0.02 | 5 | 9.7% |
| 17 |  Jake WalmanDEDM | EDM | 1 | 53 | 0.02 | 8 | 22%▼2.5 |
| 18 |  Curtis LazarFEDM | EDM | 1 | 45 | 0.02 | 4 | 0.0% |
| 19 |  Quinn HutsonFEDM | EDM | 1 | 4 | 0.25 | 1 | 10% |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Evan Bouchard leads with 5. The median of the 19 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Evan Bouchard leads NHL defensemen with 5; the top forward is Vasily Podkolzin 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).