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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Tampa Bay Lightning
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 Tampa Bay Lightning in 2017-18: Brayden Point (TBL), 12 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brayden PointFTBL | TBL | 12 | 82 | 0.15 | 32 | 95%▲7.5 |
| 2 | Nikita KucherovFTBL | TBL | 7 | 80 | 0.09 | 39 | 100% |
| 3 | J.T. MillerFNYR/TBL | NYR/TBL | 5 | 82 | 0.06 | 23 | 92%▲7.7 |
| 4 | Yanni GourdeFTBL | TBL | 5 | 82 | 0.06 | 25 | 4.9%▲4 |
| 5 | Mikhail SergachevDTBL | TBL | 5 | 79 | 0.06 | 9 | 98%▲5.2 |
| 6 | Tyler JohnsonFTBL | TBL | 3 | 81 | 0.04 | 21 | — |
| 7 | Chris KunitzFTBL | TBL | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 13 | — |
| 8 | Vladislav NamestnikovFTBL/NYR | TBL/NYR | 2 | 81 | 0.02 | 22 | 0.1% |
| 9 | Cedric PaquetteFTBL | TBL | 2 | 56 | 0.04 | 5 | — |
| 10 | Cory ConacherFTBL | TBL | 2 | 36 | 0.06 | 8 | — |
| 11 | Alex KillornFTBL | TBL | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 15 | 5.1%▲3.6 |
| 12 | Steven StamkosFTBL | TBL | 1 | 78 | 0.01 | 27 | 94%▼4.2 |
| 13 | Dan GirardiDTBL | TBL | 1 | 77 | 0.01 | 6 | — |
| 14 | Victor HedmanDTBL | TBL | 1 | 77 | 0.01 | 17 | 93%▲11 |
| 15 | JT BrownFTBL/ANA | TBL/ANA | 1 | 47 | 0.02 | 2 | — |
| 16 | Slater KoekkoekDTBL | TBL | 1 | 35 | 0.03 | 4 | — |
| 17 | Adam ErneFTBL | TBL | 1 | 23 | 0.04 | 3 | 0.0% |
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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