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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Pittsburgh Penguins
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 Pittsburgh Penguins in 2018-19: Phil Kessel (PIT), 10 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phil KesselFPIT | PIT | 10 | 82 | 0.12 | 27 | — |
| 2 | Evgeni MalkinFPIT | PIT | 5 | 68 | 0.07 | 21 | 82%▲11 |
| 3 | Jake GuentzelFPIT | PIT | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 40 | 100% |
| 4 | Bryan RustFPIT | PIT | 4 | 72 | 0.06 | 18 | 85%▲2.5 |
| 5 | Sidney CrosbyFPIT | PIT | 3 | 79 | 0.04 | 35 | 100%▲2.4 |
| 6 | Kris LetangDPIT | PIT | 3 | 65 | 0.05 | 16 | 47%▼16 |
| 7 | Daniel SprongFANA/PIT | ANA/PIT | 3 | 63 | 0.05 | 14 | — |
| 8 | Riley SheahanFPIT/FLA | PIT/FLA | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 9 | — |
| 9 | Jared McCannFFLA/PIT | FLA/PIT | 2 | 78 | 0.03 | 19 | 72%▲1.9 |
| 10 | Matt CullenFPIT | PIT | 2 | 71 | 0.03 | 7 | — |
| 11 | Patric HornqvistFPIT | PIT | 2 | 69 | 0.03 | 18 | — |
| 12 | Nick BjugstadFFLA/PIT | FLA/PIT | 2 | 64 | 0.03 | 14 | 0.1% |
| 13 | Carl HagelinFLAK/WSH/PIT | LAK/WSH/PIT | 2 | 58 | 0.03 | 5 | — |
| 14 | Tanner PearsonFPIT/VAN/LAK | PIT/VAN/LAK | 1 | 80 | 0.01 | 18 | 0.0% |
| 15 | Erik GudbransonDVAN/PIT | VAN/PIT | 1 | 76 | 0.01 | 2 | 0.1% |
| 16 | Olli MaattaDPIT | PIT | 1 | 60 | 0.02 | 1 | 0.2% |
| 17 | Derek GrantFANA/PIT | ANA/PIT | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 4 | — |
| 18 | Zachary Aston-ReeseFPIT | PIT | 1 | 43 | 0.02 | 8 | 0.0% |
| 19 | Juuso RiikolaDPIT | PIT | 1 | 37 | 0.03 | 2 | — |
| 20 | Teddy BluegerFPIT | PIT | 1 | 28 | 0.04 | 6 | 4.8%▲4.6 |
| 21 | Jean-Sebastien DeaFNJD/PIT | NJD/PIT | 1 | 23 | 0.04 | 4 | — |
| 22 | Chad RuhwedelDPIT | PIT | 1 | 18 | 0.06 | 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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