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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Los Angeles Kings
2025-26All situationsThrough 82 team games
Adrian Kempe (LAK) leads NHL skaters with 8 GWG for the Los Angeles Kings in 2025-26, ahead of 
Warren Foegele (LAK/OTT) (5).
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Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Los Angeles Kings, 2025-26
- 1stAdrian KempeLAK · 81 GP8
2ndWarren FoegeleLAK/OTT · 68 GP5
3rdQuinton ByfieldLAK · 79 GP4
4thArtemi PanarinNYR/LAK · 78 GP4
5thAlex LaferriereLAK · 82 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 Adrian Kempe leads at 8.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adrian KempeFLAK | LAK | 8 | 81 | 0.10 | 36 | 95%▼0.9 |
| 2 | Warren FoegeleFLAK/OTT | LAK/OTT | 5 | 68 | 0.07 | 13 | 3.2%▼0.8 |
| 3 | Quinton ByfieldFLAK | LAK | 4 | 79 | 0.05 | 24 | 75%▼7.1 |
| 4 | Artemi PanarinFNYR/LAK | NYR/LAK | 4 | 78 | 0.05 | 28 | 96%▼1.6 |
| 5 | Alex LaferriereFLAK | LAK | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 21 | 65%▼1.1 |
| 6 |  Andrei KuzmenkoFLAK | LAK | 3 | 52 | 0.06 | 13 | 8.1%▼0.8 |
| 7 |  Brandt ClarkeDLAK | LAK | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 8 | 94% |
| 8 |  Corey PerryFLAK/TBL | LAK/TBL | 2 | 72 | 0.03 | 17 | 5.0%▼0.8 |
| 9 |  Trevor MooreFLAK | LAK | 2 | 69 | 0.03 | 13 | 7.9%▼0.9 |
| 10 |  Scott LaughtonFTOR/LAK | TOR/LAK | 2 | 64 | 0.03 | 13 | 4.9% |
| 11 |  Kevin FialaFLAK | LAK | 2 | 56 | 0.04 | 18 | 64% |
| 12 |  Mikey AndersonDLAK | LAK | 1 | 80 | 0.01 | 4 | 6.5%▼0.9 |
| 13 |  Phillip DanaultFMTL/LAK | MTL/LAK | 1 | 75 | 0.01 | 6 | 4.1%▼0.8 |
| 14 |  Anze KopitarFLAK | LAK | 1 | 67 | 0.01 | 12 | 0.4% |
| 15 |  Joel ArmiaFLAK | LAK | 1 | 67 | 0.01 | 13 | 3.3% |
| 16 |  Mathieu JosephFSTL/LAK | STL/LAK | 1 | 51 | 0.02 | 2 | 4.1%▲0.9 |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Adrian Kempe leads with 8. The median of the 16 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Brandt Clarke leads NHL defensemen with 2; the top forward is Adrian Kempe at 8.
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).