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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Buffalo Sabres
2019-20All situationsThrough 71 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 2019-20: Jack Eichel (BUF), 9 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack EichelFBUF | BUF | 9 | 68 | 0.13 | 36 | 99%▲1.4 |
| 2 | Victor OlofssonFBUF | BUF | 4 | 54 | 0.07 | 20 | 14%▲14 |
| 3 | Sam ReinhartFBUF | BUF | 2 | 69 | 0.03 | 22 | 99% |
| 4 | Jimmy VeseyFBUF | BUF | 2 | 64 | 0.03 | 9 | — |
| 5 | Dominik KahunFPIT/BUF | PIT/BUF | 2 | 56 | 0.04 | 12 | — |
| 6 | Kyle OkposoFBUF | BUF | 2 | 52 | 0.04 | 9 | — |
| 7 | Zemgus GirgensonsFBUF | BUF | 1 | 69 | 0.01 | 12 | 3.2%▲3 |
| 8 | Wayne SimmondsFNJD/BUF | NJD/BUF | 1 | 68 | 0.01 | 8 | — |
| 9 | Jake McCabeDBUF | BUF | 1 | 66 | 0.02 | 3 | 34%▼15 |
| 10 | Conor ShearyFBUF/PIT | BUF/PIT | 1 | 63 | 0.02 | 10 | 0.1% |
| 11 | Marcus JohanssonFBUF | BUF | 1 | 60 | 0.02 | 9 | 0.7% |
| 12 | Jeff SkinnerFBUF | BUF | 1 | 59 | 0.02 | 14 | 0.1% |
| 13 | Rasmus DahlinDBUF | BUF | 1 | 59 | 0.02 | 4 | 100%▲1 |
| 14 | Michael FrolikFCGY/BUF | CGY/BUF | 1 | 57 | 0.02 | 6 | — |
| 15 | Colin MillerDBUF | BUF | 1 | 51 | 0.02 | 1 | 0.0% |
| 16 | Evan RodriguesFBUF/PIT | BUF/PIT | 1 | 45 | 0.02 | 6 | 8.3%▲6.5 |
| 17 | Casey MittelstadtFBUF | BUF | 1 | 31 | 0.03 | 4 | 14%▲12 |
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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