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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: St. Louis Blues
2025-26All situationsThrough 82 team games
Jimmy Snuggerud (STL) leads NHL skaters with 5 GWG for the St. Louis Blues in 2025-26, ahead of 
Pavel Buchnevich (STL) (4).
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Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, St. Louis Blues, 2025-26
- 1stJimmy SnuggerudSTL · 70 GP5
- 2ndPavel BuchnevichSTL · 81 GP4
3rdRobert ThomasSTL · 64 GP4
4thJustin FaulkSTL/DET · 78 GP3
5thBrayden SchennSTL/NYI · 80 GP2
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, 21 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 1 and Jimmy Snuggerud leads at 5.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jimmy SnuggerudFSTL | STL | 5 | 70 | 0.07 | 21 | 76%▼2.1 |
| 2 | Pavel BuchnevichFSTL | STL | 4 | 81 | 0.05 | 20 | 31% |
| 3 | Robert ThomasFSTL | STL | 4 | 64 | 0.06 | 25 | 84%▼1.2 |
| 4 | Justin FaulkDSTL/DET | STL/DET | 3 | 78 | 0.04 | 16 | 54%▲4.7 |
| 5 | Brayden SchennFSTL/NYI | STL/NYI | 2 | 80 | 0.03 | 18 | 36%▼0.5 |
| 6 |  Jordan KyrouFSTL | STL | 2 | 72 | 0.03 | 18 | 68%▼1.3 |
| 7 |  Jake NeighboursFSTL | STL | 2 | 69 | 0.03 | 15 | 30%▲2.6 |
| 8 |  Pius SuterFSTL | STL | 2 | 64 | 0.03 | 13 | 7.4%▲3.3 |
| 9 |  Dylan HollowayFSTL | STL | 2 | 59 | 0.03 | 22 | 89% |
| 10 |  Jonatan BerggrenFSTL/DET | STL/DET | 2 | 51 | 0.04 | 8 | 4.8%▲0.8 |
| 11 |  Cam FowlerDSTL | STL | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 4 | 15%▲2.3 |
| 12 |  Logan MaillouxDSTL | STL | 1 | 67 | 0.01 | 5 | 26%▼0.8 |
| 13 |  Nick BjugstadFSTL/NJD | STL/NJD | 1 | 61 | 0.02 | 6 | 0.1% |
| 14 |  Mathieu JosephFSTL/LAK | STL/LAK | 1 | 51 | 0.02 | 2 | 4.1%▲0.9 |
| 15 |  Alexandre TexierFMTL/STL | MTL/STL | 1 | 51 | 0.02 | 8 | 4.9% |
| 16 |  Nathan WalkerFSTL | STL | 1 | 46 | 0.02 | 4 | 0.1% |
| 17 |  Jack FinleyFSTL/TBL | STL/TBL | 1 | 44 | 0.02 | 2 | 0.0% |
| 18 |  Matthew KesselDSTL | STL | 1 | 29 | 0.03 | 2 | 0.1% |
| 19 |  Robby FabbriFSTL/MIN | STL/MIN | 1 | 21 | 0.05 | 2 | — |
| 20 |  Theo LindsteinDSTL | STL | 1 | 17 | 0.06 | 2 | 11% |
| 21 |  Justin HollDSTL | STL | 1 | 9 | 0.11 | 1 | 0.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Jimmy Snuggerud leads with 5. The median of the 21 qualified skaters is 1.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Justin Faulk leads NHL defensemen with 3; the top forward is Jimmy Snuggerud 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).