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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Buffalo Sabres
2018-19All 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 Buffalo Sabres in 2018-19: Jeff Skinner (BUF), 6 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeff SkinnerFBUF | BUF | 6 | 82 | 0.07 | 40 | 0.1% |
| 2 | Rasmus DahlinDBUF | BUF | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 9 | 100%▲1 |
| 3 | Conor ShearyFBUF | BUF | 3 | 78 | 0.04 | 14 | 0.1% |
| 4 | Jason PominvilleFBUF | BUF | 3 | 73 | 0.04 | 16 | — |
| 5 | Brandon MontourDANA/BUF | ANA/BUF | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 8 | 83%▲10 |
| 6 | Kyle OkposoFBUF | BUF | 2 | 78 | 0.03 | 14 | — |
| 7 | Rasmus RistolainenDBUF | BUF | 2 | 78 | 0.03 | 5 | 8.3%▲7.7 |
| 8 | Jack EichelFBUF | BUF | 2 | 77 | 0.03 | 28 | 99%▲1.4 |
| 9 | Sam ReinhartFBUF | BUF | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 22 | 99% |
| 10 | Casey MittelstadtFBUF | BUF | 1 | 77 | 0.01 | 12 | 14%▲12 |
| 11 | Evan RodriguesFBUF | BUF | 1 | 74 | 0.01 | 9 | 8.3%▲6.5 |
| 12 | Marco ScandellaDBUF | BUF | 1 | 63 | 0.02 | 6 | — |
| 13 | Nathan BeaulieuDBUF/WPG | BUF/WPG | 1 | 48 | 0.02 | 3 | — |
| 14 | C.J. SmithFBUF | BUF | 1 | 11 | 0.09 | 2 | — |
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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