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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Carolina Hurricanes
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 Carolina Hurricanes in 2020-21: Sebastian Aho (CAR), 7 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sebastian AhoFCAR | CAR | 7 | 56 | 0.13 | 24 | 99%▲1.2 |
| 2 | Nino NiederreiterFCAR | CAR | 4 | 56 | 0.07 | 20 | 4.0%▲3.8 |
| 3 | Jordan StaalFCAR | CAR | 4 | 53 | 0.08 | 16 | 20%▲13 |
| 4 | Martin NecasFCAR | CAR | 3 | 53 | 0.06 | 14 | 100%▲1.8 |
| 5 | Dougie HamiltonDCAR | CAR | 2 | 55 | 0.04 | 10 | 84%▲12 |
| 6 | Vincent TrocheckFCAR | CAR | 2 | 47 | 0.04 | 17 | 88%▼5.4 |
| 7 | Teuvo TeravainenFCAR | CAR | 2 | 21 | 0.10 | 5 | 13%▲8.6 |
| 8 | Jani HakanpääDANA/CAR | ANA/CAR | 1 | 57 | 0.02 | 2 | — |
| 9 | Andrei SvechnikovFCAR | CAR | 1 | 55 | 0.02 | 15 | 97%▲8.8 |
| 10 | Warren FoegeleFCAR | CAR | 1 | 53 | 0.02 | 10 | 4.0%▲3.9 |
| 11 | Brady SkjeiDCAR | CAR | 1 | 52 | 0.02 | 3 | 18%▼31 |
| 12 | Jesper FastFCAR | CAR | 1 | 46 | 0.02 | 6 | — |
| 13 | Steven LorentzFCAR | CAR | 1 | 45 | 0.02 | 2 | 0.0% |
| 14 | Jordan MartinookFCAR | CAR | 1 | 44 | 0.02 | 4 | 4.3%▲2.7 |
| 15 | Brock McGinnFCAR | CAR | 1 | 37 | 0.03 | 8 | — |
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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