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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Buffalo Sabres
2017-18All situationsThrough 82 team games
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.
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.
Leader for the Buffalo Sabres in 2017-18: Sam Reinhart (BUF), 5 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam ReinhartFBUF | BUF | 5 | 82 | 0.06 | 25 | 99% |
| 2 | Benoit PouliotFBUF | BUF | 4 | 74 | 0.05 | 13 | — |
| 3 | Jack EichelFBUF | BUF | 4 | 67 | 0.06 | 25 | 99%▲1.4 |
| 4 | Ryan O'ReillyFBUF | BUF | 3 | 81 | 0.04 | 24 | 84%▲5 |
| 5 | Evander KaneFBUF/SJS | BUF/SJS | 2 | 78 | 0.03 | 29 | 5.7%▲0.8 |
| 6 | Kyle OkposoFBUF | BUF | 2 | 76 | 0.03 | 15 | — |
| 7 | Jason PominvilleFBUF | BUF | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 16 | — |
| 8 | Marco ScandellaDBUF | BUF | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 5 | — |
| 9 | Rasmus RistolainenDBUF | BUF | 1 | 73 | 0.01 | 6 | 8.3%▲7.7 |
| 10 | Nick BaptisteFBUF | BUF | 1 | 33 | 0.03 | 4 | — |
How to read it
Goals that were the winning team's (loser's final score + 1)th goal, shootouts excluded.
How reliable is it?
Game-winning goals are goals plus timing luck: year-to-year correlation is weak (about 0.1 beyond what goals explain).
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