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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Minnesota Wild
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 Minnesota Wild in 2018-19: Eric Staal (MIN), 6 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eric StaalFMIN | MIN | 6 | 81 | 0.07 | 22 | — |
| 2 | Jason ZuckerFMIN | MIN | 5 | 81 | 0.06 | 21 | 23%▲17 |
| 3 | Mikael GranlundFMIN/NSH | MIN/NSH | 5 | 79 | 0.06 | 16 | 52%▼12 |
| 4 | Zach PariseFMIN | MIN | 5 | 74 | 0.07 | 28 | — |
| 5 | Nino NiederreiterFMIN/CAR | MIN/CAR | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 23 | 4.0%▲3.8 |
| 6 | Kevin FialaFNSH/MIN | NSH/MIN | 2 | 83 | 0.02 | 13 | 67%▼8.3 |
| 7 | Ryan SuterDMIN | MIN | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 7 | — |
| 8 | Jonas BrodinDMIN | MIN | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 4 | 5.0%▲4.3 |
| 9 | Charlie CoyleFMIN/BOS | MIN/BOS | 2 | 81 | 0.02 | 12 | 49%▼11 |
| 10 | Joel Eriksson EkFMIN | MIN | 2 | 58 | 0.03 | 7 | 82%▲10 |
| 11 | Nick SeelerDMIN | MIN | 1 | 71 | 0.01 | 2 | 8.1%▲7.6 |
| 12 | Pontus AbergFANA/MIN | ANA/MIN | 1 | 59 | 0.02 | 12 | — |
| 13 | Ryan DonatoFBOS/MIN | BOS/MIN | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 10 | 9.9%▲4.3 |
| 14 | Luke KuninFMIN | MIN | 1 | 49 | 0.02 | 6 | 0.0% |
| 15 | Brad HuntDMIN/VGK | MIN/VGK | 1 | 42 | 0.02 | 5 | — |
| 16 | Mathew DumbaDMIN | MIN | 1 | 32 | 0.03 | 12 | 0.1% |
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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