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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Minnesota Wild
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 Minnesota Wild in 2017-18: Jason Zucker (MIN), 7 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jason ZuckerFMIN | MIN | 7 | 82 | 0.09 | 33 | 23%▲17 |
| 2 | Eric StaalFMIN | MIN | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 42 | — |
| 3 | Mathew DumbaDMIN | MIN | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 14 | 0.1% |
| 4 | Nino NiederreiterFMIN | MIN | 4 | 63 | 0.06 | 18 | 4.0%▲3.8 |
| 5 | Zach PariseFMIN | MIN | 4 | 42 | 0.10 | 15 | — |
| 6 | Tyler EnnisFMIN | MIN | 3 | 73 | 0.04 | 8 | — |
| 7 | Mikko KoivuFMIN | MIN | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 14 | — |
| 8 | Ryan SuterDMIN | MIN | 2 | 78 | 0.03 | 6 | — |
| 9 | Marcus FolignoFMIN | MIN | 2 | 77 | 0.03 | 8 | 4.2%▲3.4 |
| 10 | Mikael GranlundFMIN | MIN | 2 | 77 | 0.03 | 21 | 52%▼12 |
| 11 | Jared SpurgeonDMIN | MIN | 2 | 61 | 0.03 | 9 | 10%▲8.2 |
| 12 | Matt CullenFMIN | MIN | 1 | 79 | 0.01 | 11 | — |
| 13 | Jonas BrodinDMIN | MIN | 1 | 73 | 0.01 | 6 | 5.0%▲4.3 |
| 14 | Charlie CoyleFMIN | MIN | 1 | 66 | 0.02 | 11 | 49%▼11 |
| 15 | Nate ProsserDMIN/STL | MIN/STL | 1 | 57 | 0.02 | 3 | — |
| 16 | Chris StewartFMIN/CGY | MIN/CGY | 1 | 54 | 0.02 | 10 | — |
| 17 | Zack MitchellFMIN | MIN | 1 | 23 | 0.04 | 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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