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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: New York Islanders
2025-26All situationsThrough 82 team games
Bo Horvat (NYI) leads NHL skaters with 7 GWG for the New York Islanders in 2025-26, ahead of 
Simon Holmstrom (NYI) (5).
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Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, New York Islanders, 2025-26
- 1stBo HorvatNYI · 68 GP7
- 2ndSimon HolmstromNYI · 79 GP5
3rdAnders LeeNYI · 82 GP4
4thMatthew SchaeferNYI · 82 GP4
5thMathew BarzalNYI · 81 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, 13 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 4 and Bo Horvat leads at 7.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bo HorvatFNYI | NYI | 7 | 68 | 0.10 | 31 | 94%▲1.2 |
| 2 | Simon HolmstromFNYI | NYI | 5 | 79 | 0.06 | 19 | 14%▼0.8 |
| 3 | Anders LeeFNYI | NYI | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 19 | 29%▼0.6 |
| 4 | Matthew SchaeferDNYI | NYI | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 23 | 100% |
| 5 | Mathew BarzalFNYI | NYI | 4 | 81 | 0.05 | 19 | 80%▼1.2 |
| 6 |  Jean-Gabriel PageauFNYI | NYI | 4 | 74 | 0.05 | 17 | 13%▲1.8 |
| 7 |  Calum RitchieFNYI | NYI | 4 | 65 | 0.06 | 13 | 29%▼1.6 |
| 8 |  Adam PelechDNYI | NYI | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 4 | 4.1%▲0.8 |
| 9 |  Brayden SchennFSTL/NYI | STL/NYI | 2 | 80 | 0.03 | 18 | 36%▼0.5 |
| 10 |  Anthony DuclairFNYI | NYI | 2 | 62 | 0.03 | 12 | 3.2% |
| 11 |  Emil HeinemanFNYI | NYI | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 22 | 27%▼1.8 |
| 12 |  Tony DeAngeloDNYI | NYI | 1 | 76 | 0.01 | 5 | 19%▼0.8 |
| 13 |  Kyle PalmieriFNYI | NYI | 1 | 25 | 0.04 | 6 | 13%▼0.8 |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Bo Horvat leads with 7. The median of the 13 qualified skaters is 4.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Matthew Schaefer leads NHL defensemen with 4; the top forward is Bo Horvat 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).