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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Vegas Golden Knights
2025-26All situationsThrough 82 team games
Jack Eichel (VGK) leads NHL skaters with 6 GWG for the Vegas Golden Knights in 2025-26, ahead of 
Tomas Hertl (VGK) (4).
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Leaders: Game-Winning Goals, Vegas Golden Knights, 2025-26
- 1stJack EichelVGK · 74 GP6
- 2ndTomas HertlVGK · 82 GP4
3rdPavel DorofeyevVGK · 82 GP4
4thMark StoneVGK · 60 GP4
5thIvan BarbashevVGK · 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 Jack Eichel leads at 6.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack EichelFVGK | VGK | 6 | 74 | 0.08 | 27 | 100% |
| 2 | Tomas HertlFVGK | VGK | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 24 | 87% |
| 3 | Pavel DorofeyevFVGK | VGK | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 37 | 89%▼2.4 |
| 4 | Mark StoneFVGK | VGK | 4 | 60 | 0.07 | 28 | 96%▲1.2 |
| 5 | Ivan BarbashevFVGK | VGK | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 23 | 63%▼2.1 |
| 6 |  Shea TheodoreDVGK | VGK | 3 | 70 | 0.04 | 10 | 90%▼2.7 |
| 7 |  Reilly SmithFVGK | VGK | 3 | 69 | 0.04 | 16 | — |
| 8 |  Mitch MarnerFVGK | VGK | 2 | 81 | 0.02 | 24 | 99% |
| 9 |  Colton SissonsFVGK | VGK | 2 | 66 | 0.03 | 6 | 5.8%▲2.5 |
| 10 |  Cole SmithFNSH/VGK | NSH/VGK | 2 | 63 | 0.03 | 8 | 0.1% |
| 11 |  Cole ReinhardtFVGK/FLA | VGK/FLA | 2 | 59 | 0.03 | 9 | 0.1% |
| 12 |  Braeden BowmanFVGK | VGK | 2 | 54 | 0.04 | 8 | 14%▼0.8 |
| 13 |  Brayden McNabbDVGK | VGK | 1 | 63 | 0.02 | 5 | 42%▲2.8 |
| 14 |  Brett HowdenFVGK | VGK | 1 | 58 | 0.02 | 12 | 24%▲9 |
| 15 |  Ben HuttonDVGK | VGK | 1 | 55 | 0.02 | 6 | — |
| 16 |  William KarlssonFVGK | VGK | 1 | 14 | 0.07 | 4 | 20%▲1 |
Frequently asked questions
Who leads the NHL in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Jack Eichel leads with 6. The median of the 16 qualified skaters is 2.
Which defenseman leads in Game-Winning Goals in 2025-26?
Shea Theodore leads NHL defensemen with 3; the top forward is Jack Eichel at 6.
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).