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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Montreal Canadiens
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 Montreal Canadiens in 2017-18: Brendan Gallagher (MTL), 4 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brendan GallagherFMTL | MTL | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 31 | 3.3%▲2.8 |
| 2 | Jonathan DrouinFMTL | MTL | 4 | 77 | 0.05 | 13 | 0.5% |
| 3 | Max PaciorettyFMTL | MTL | 4 | 64 | 0.06 | 17 | — |
| 4 | Artturi LehkonenFMTL | MTL | 3 | 66 | 0.05 | 12 | 57%▲40 |
| 5 | Jeff PetryDMTL | MTL | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 12 | 0.1% |
| 6 | Alex GalchenyukFMTL | MTL | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 19 | — |
| 7 | Phillip DanaultFMTL | MTL | 2 | 52 | 0.04 | 8 | 4.9%▲4.5 |
| 8 | Paul ByronFMTL | MTL | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 20 | — |
| 9 | Tomas PlekanecFMTL/TOR | MTL/TOR | 1 | 77 | 0.01 | 6 | — |
| 10 | Logan ShawFANA/MTL | ANA/MTL | 1 | 72 | 0.01 | 4 | — |
| 11 | Charles HudonFMTL | MTL | 1 | 72 | 0.01 | 10 | — |
| 12 | Nicolas DeslauriersFMTL | MTL | 1 | 58 | 0.02 | 10 | 0.2% |
| 13 | David SchlemkoDMTL | MTL | 1 | 37 | 0.03 | 1 | — |
| 14 | Shea WeberDMTL | MTL | 1 | 26 | 0.04 | 6 | — |
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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