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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Colorado Avalanche
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 Colorado Avalanche in 2017-18: Nathan MacKinnon (COL), 12 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan MacKinnonFCOL | COL | 12 | 74 | 0.16 | 39 | 100%▲0.9 |
| 2 | Matt DucheneFOTT/COL | OTT/COL | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 27 | 62%▼17 |
| 3 | Mikko RantanenFCOL | COL | 3 | 81 | 0.04 | 29 | 99%▲0.5 |
| 4 | Blake ComeauFCOL | COL | 3 | 79 | 0.04 | 13 | — |
| 5 | Carl SoderbergFCOL | COL | 3 | 77 | 0.04 | 16 | — |
| 6 | J.T. CompherFCOL | COL | 3 | 69 | 0.04 | 13 | 4.0%▲3.9 |
| 7 | Tyson BarrieDCOL | COL | 3 | 68 | 0.04 | 14 | — |
| 8 | Erik JohnsonDCOL | COL | 3 | 62 | 0.05 | 9 | — |
| 9 | Sven AndrighettoFCOL | COL | 2 | 50 | 0.04 | 8 | — |
| 10 | Gabriel LandeskogFCOL | COL | 1 | 78 | 0.01 | 25 | 50%▲32 |
| 11 | Nikita ZadorovDCOL | COL | 1 | 77 | 0.01 | 7 | 39%▲21 |
| 12 | Matt NietoFCOL | COL | 1 | 74 | 0.01 | 15 | — |
| 13 | Tyson JostFCOL | COL | 1 | 65 | 0.02 | 12 | 0.0% |
| 14 | Gabriel BourqueFCOL | COL | 1 | 58 | 0.02 | 5 | — |
| 15 | Nail YakupovFCOL | COL | 1 | 58 | 0.02 | 9 | — |
| 16 | Colin WilsonFCOL | COL | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 6 | — |
| 17 | Mark BarberioDCOL | COL | 1 | 46 | 0.02 | 3 | — |
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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