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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Minnesota Wild
2025-26All situationsThrough 82 team games
Kirill Kaprizov (MIN) leads NHL skaters with 7 GWG for the Minnesota Wild in 2025-26, ahead of 
Mats Zuccarello (MIN) (5).
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Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Minnesota Wild, 2025-26
- 1stKirill KaprizovMIN · 78 GP7
- 2ndMats ZuccarelloMIN · 59 GP5
3rdRyan HartmanMIN · 76 GP4
4thMarcus JohanssonMIN · 75 GP4
5thVladimir TarasenkoMIN · 75 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 Kirill Kaprizov leads at 7.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kirill KaprizovFMIN | MIN | 7 | 78 | 0.09 | 45 | 98% |
| 2 | Mats ZuccarelloFMIN | MIN | 5 | 59 | 0.08 | 15 | 39%▼1.9 |
| 3 | Ryan HartmanFMIN | MIN | 4 | 76 | 0.05 | 23 | 28%▼4.1 |
| 4 | Marcus JohanssonFMIN | MIN | 4 | 75 | 0.05 | 15 | 0.5% |
| 5 | Vladimir TarasenkoFMIN | MIN | 4 | 75 | 0.05 | 23 | 7.4%▼0.9 |
| 6 |  Matt BoldyFMIN | MIN | 3 | 76 | 0.04 | 42 | 100% |
| 7 |  Joel Eriksson EkFMIN | MIN | 3 | 70 | 0.04 | 19 | 81%▲3.2 |
| 8 |  Bobby BrinkFPHI/MIN | PHI/MIN | 3 | 68 | 0.04 | 15 | 15% |
| 9 |  Jared SpurgeonDMIN | MIN | 2 | 79 | 0.03 | 6 | 44%▼8 |
| 10 |  Danila YurovFMIN | MIN | 2 | 73 | 0.03 | 12 | 37%▲3.9 |
| 11 |  Vinnie HinostrozaFMIN/FLA | MIN/FLA | 2 | 65 | 0.03 | 6 | 0.0% |
| 12 |  Marco RossiFVAN/MIN | VAN/MIN | 2 | 50 | 0.04 | 12 | 56%▼10 |
| 13 |  Yakov TreninFMIN | MIN | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 6 | 18% |
| 14 |  Brock FaberDMIN | MIN | 1 | 80 | 0.01 | 15 | 87%▼1.2 |
| 15 |  Michael McCarronFNSH/MIN | NSH/MIN | 1 | 79 | 0.01 | 8 | 13%▲1.8 |
| 16 |  Zeev BuiumDVAN/MIN | VAN/MIN | 1 | 76 | 0.01 | 6 | 57%▼6.5 |
| 17 |  Quinn HughesDMIN/VAN | MIN/VAN | 1 | 74 | 0.01 | 7 | 100% |
| 18 |  Jonas BrodinDMIN | MIN | 1 | 62 | 0.02 | 4 | 7.9%▲2.9 |
| 19 |  Robby FabbriFSTL/MIN | STL/MIN | 1 | 21 | 0.05 | 2 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Kirill Kaprizov leads with 7. The median of the 19 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Jared Spurgeon leads NHL defensemen with 2; the top forward is Kirill Kaprizov at 7.
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).