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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Vegas Golden Knights
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 Vegas Golden Knights in 2017-18: William Karlsson (VGK), 6 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | William KarlssonFVGK | VGK | 6 | 82 | 0.07 | 43 | 24%▲20 |
| 2 | Jonathan MarchessaultFVGK | VGK | 6 | 77 | 0.08 | 27 | 24%▼21 |
| 3 | James NealFVGK | VGK | 6 | 71 | 0.08 | 25 | — |
| 4 | Tomas TatarFDET/VGK | DET/VGK | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 20 | — |
| 5 | Alex TuchFVGK | VGK | 4 | 78 | 0.05 | 15 | 94%▼5.5 |
| 6 | Erik HaulaFVGK | VGK | 4 | 76 | 0.05 | 29 | 12%▲8.7 |
| 7 | David PerronFVGK | VGK | 4 | 70 | 0.06 | 16 | 0.2% |
| 8 | Reilly SmithFVGK | VGK | 4 | 67 | 0.06 | 22 | — |
| 9 | Colin MillerDVGK | VGK | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 10 | 0.0% |
| 10 | Cody EakinFVGK | VGK | 2 | 80 | 0.03 | 11 | — |
| 11 | Ryan CarpenterFVGK/SJS | VGK/SJS | 2 | 52 | 0.04 | 9 | — |
| 12 | Ryan ReavesFPIT/VGK | PIT/VGK | 1 | 79 | 0.01 | 4 | 0.3% |
| 13 | Brayden McNabbDVGK | VGK | 1 | 76 | 0.01 | 5 | 24%▲21 |
| 14 | Nate SchmidtDVGK | VGK | 1 | 76 | 0.01 | 5 | 4.9%▲4.5 |
| 15 | Pierre-Edouard BellemareFVGK | VGK | 1 | 72 | 0.01 | 6 | — |
| 16 | Shea TheodoreDVGK | VGK | 1 | 61 | 0.02 | 6 | 91%▲28 |
| 17 | Brendan LeipsicFVGK/VAN | VGK/VAN | 1 | 58 | 0.02 | 5 | — |
| 18 | Jon MerrillDVGK | VGK | 1 | 34 | 0.03 | 1 | — |
| 19 | Vadim ShipachyovFVGK | VGK | 1 | 3 | 0.33 | 1 | — |
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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