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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Utah Mammoth
2025-26All situationsThrough 82 team games
Nick Schmaltz (UTA) leads NHL skaters with 9 GWG for the Utah Mammoth in 2025-26, ahead of 
Clayton Keller (UTA) (6).
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Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Utah Mammoth, 2025-26
- 1stNick SchmaltzUTA · 82 GP9
- 2ndClayton KellerUTA · 82 GP6
3rdDylan GuentherUTA · 79 GP6
4thJJ PeterkaUTA · 82 GP4
5thLawson CrouseUTA · 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, 15 skaters qualify for this board; the median is 2 and Nick Schmaltz leads at 9.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nick SchmaltzFUTA | UTA | 9 | 82 | 0.11 | 33 | 97% |
| 2 | Clayton KellerFUTA | UTA | 6 | 82 | 0.07 | 26 | 100% |
| 3 | Dylan GuentherFUTA | UTA | 6 | 79 | 0.08 | 40 | 100% |
| 4 | JJ PeterkaFUTA | UTA | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 25 | 72%▼2.2 |
| 5 | Lawson CrouseFUTA | UTA | 4 | 81 | 0.05 | 24 | 32%▼1 |
| 6 |  Logan CooleyFUTA | UTA | 3 | 54 | 0.06 | 24 | 94% |
| 7 |  John MarinoDUTA | UTA | 2 | 80 | 0.03 | 4 | 21%▲5 |
| 8 |  Sean DurziDUTA | UTA | 2 | 60 | 0.03 | 5 | 36%▼1.6 |
| 9 |  Kailer YamamotoFUTA | UTA | 2 | 59 | 0.03 | 13 | 11%▲7.1 |
| 10 |  Nate SchmidtDUTA | UTA | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 5 | 4.9% |
| 11 |  Mikhail SergachevDUTA | UTA | 1 | 78 | 0.01 | 10 | 100%▲1.4 |
| 12 |  Jack McBainFUTA | UTA | 1 | 75 | 0.01 | 9 | 18%▲1.6 |
| 13 |  Barrett HaytonFUTA | UTA | 1 | 67 | 0.01 | 10 | 18%▲7.6 |
| 14 |  Olli MaattaDUTA/CGY | UTA/CGY | 1 | 43 | 0.02 | 2 | 0.2% |
| 15 |  Nick DeSimoneDUTA | UTA | 1 | 40 | 0.03 | 2 | 0.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Nick Schmaltz leads with 9. The median of the 15 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
John Marino leads NHL defensemen with 2; the top forward is Nick Schmaltz at 9.
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).