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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Buffalo Sabres
2020-21All situationsThrough 56 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 2020-21: Sam Reinhart (BUF), 5 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam ReinhartFBUF | BUF | 5 | 54 | 0.09 | 25 | 99% |
| 2 | Casey MittelstadtFBUF | BUF | 2 | 41 | 0.05 | 10 | 14%▲12 |
| 3 | Rasmus AsplundFBUF | BUF | 2 | 28 | 0.07 | 7 | — |
| 4 | Eric StaalFBUF/MTL | BUF/MTL | 1 | 53 | 0.02 | 5 | — |
| 5 | Taylor HallFBUF/BOS | BUF/BOS | 1 | 53 | 0.02 | 10 | 28%▲20 |
| 6 | Curtis LazarFBUF/BOS | BUF/BOS | 1 | 50 | 0.02 | 7 | 0.0% |
| 7 | Jack EichelFBUF | BUF | 1 | 21 | 0.05 | 2 | 99%▲1.4 |
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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