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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Florida Panthers
2025-26All situationsThrough 82 team games
Sam Reinhart (FLA) leads NHL skaters with 6 GWG for the Florida Panthers in 2025-26, ahead of 
Sam Bennett (FLA) (5).
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Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Florida Panthers, 2025-26
- 1stSam ReinhartFLA · 64 GP6
- 2ndSam BennettFLA · 76 GP5
3rdCarter VerhaegheFLA · 77 GP4
4thAaron EkbladFLA · 72 GP3
5thAnton LundellFLA · 64 GP3
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, 16 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Sam Reinhart leads at 6.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam ReinhartFFLA | FLA | 6 | 64 | 0.09 | 29 | 99%▲1.7 |
| 2 | Sam BennettFFLA | FLA | 5 | 76 | 0.07 | 26 | 80%▼1.3 |
| 3 | Carter VerhaegheFFLA | FLA | 4 | 77 | 0.05 | 25 | 76%▲7.6 |
| 4 | Aaron EkbladDFLA | FLA | 3 | 72 | 0.04 | 4 | 42%▼0.8 |
| 5 | Anton LundellFFLA | FLA | 3 | 64 | 0.05 | 18 | 40%▼1.8 |
| 6 |  Brad MarchandFFLA | FLA | 3 | 52 | 0.06 | 27 | 65%▼2.8 |
| 7 |  A.J. GreerFFLA | FLA | 2 | 78 | 0.03 | 17 | 5.8%▼0.8 |
| 8 |  Vinnie HinostrozaFMIN/FLA | MIN/FLA | 2 | 65 | 0.03 | 6 | 0.0% |
| 9 |  Cole ReinhardtFVGK/FLA | VGK/FLA | 2 | 59 | 0.03 | 9 | 0.1% |
| 10 |  Gustav ForslingDFLA | FLA | 1 | 80 | 0.01 | 2 | 32%▼4.8 |
| 11 |  Mackie SamoskevichFFLA | FLA | 1 | 77 | 0.01 | 12 | — |
| 12 |  Jesper BoqvistFFLA | FLA | 1 | 73 | 0.01 | 4 | 3.3% |
| 13 |  Luke KuninFFLA | FLA | 1 | 62 | 0.02 | 4 | 0.0% |
| 14 |  Uvis BalinskisDFLA | FLA | 1 | 54 | 0.02 | 5 | 3.2% |
| 15 |  Matthew TkachukFFLA | FLA | 1 | 31 | 0.03 | 13 | 100%▲1.2 |
| 16 |  Tomas NosekFFLA | FLA | 1 | 21 | 0.05 | 2 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Sam Reinhart leads with 6. The median of the 16 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Aaron Ekblad leads NHL defensemen with 3; the top forward is Sam Reinhart at 6.
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).