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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Minnesota Wild
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 Minnesota Wild in 2019-20: Eric Staal (MIN), 5 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eric StaalFMIN | MIN | 5 | 66 | 0.08 | 19 | — |
| 2 | Zach PariseFMIN | MIN | 4 | 69 | 0.06 | 25 | — |
| 3 | Kevin FialaFMIN | MIN | 4 | 64 | 0.06 | 23 | 67%▼8.3 |
| 4 | Joel Eriksson EkFMIN | MIN | 4 | 62 | 0.06 | 8 | 82%▲10 |
| 5 | Jason ZuckerFMIN/PIT | MIN/PIT | 4 | 60 | 0.07 | 20 | 23%▲17 |
| 6 | Ryan SuterDMIN | MIN | 2 | 69 | 0.03 | 8 | — |
| 7 | Mats ZuccarelloFMIN | MIN | 2 | 65 | 0.03 | 15 | 51%▲29 |
| 8 | Jared SpurgeonDMIN | MIN | 2 | 62 | 0.03 | 12 | 10%▲8.2 |
| 9 | Victor RaskFMIN | MIN | 2 | 43 | 0.05 | 5 | — |
| 10 | Mathew DumbaDMIN | MIN | 1 | 69 | 0.01 | 6 | 0.1% |
| 11 | Ryan HartmanFMIN | MIN | 1 | 69 | 0.01 | 9 | 40%▼17 |
| 12 | Jordan GreenwayFMIN | MIN | 1 | 67 | 0.01 | 8 | 0.3% |
| 13 | Luke KuninFMIN | MIN | 1 | 63 | 0.02 | 15 | 0.0% |
| 14 | Ryan DonatoFMIN | MIN | 1 | 62 | 0.02 | 14 | 9.9%▲4.3 |
| 15 | Carson SoucyDMIN | MIN | 1 | 55 | 0.02 | 7 | 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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