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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Colorado Avalanche
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 Colorado Avalanche in 2020-21: Gabriel Landeskog (COL), 8 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gabriel LandeskogFCOL | COL | 8 | 54 | 0.15 | 20 | 50%▲32 |
| 2 | Mikko RantanenFCOL | COL | 7 | 52 | 0.13 | 30 | 99%▲0.5 |
| 3 | Valeri NichushkinFCOL | COL | 4 | 55 | 0.07 | 10 | 60% |
| 4 | Nazem KadriFCOL | COL | 3 | 56 | 0.05 | 11 | 71%▼9 |
| 5 | Andre BurakovskyFCOL | COL | 3 | 53 | 0.06 | 19 | 5.6%▲5.4 |
| 6 | Joonas DonskoiFCOL | COL | 3 | 51 | 0.06 | 17 | — |
| 7 | Cale MakarDCOL | COL | 3 | 44 | 0.07 | 8 | 100%▲1 |
| 8 | Devon ToewsDCOL | COL | 2 | 53 | 0.04 | 9 | 62%▼1 |
| 9 | J.T. CompherFCOL | COL | 2 | 48 | 0.04 | 10 | 4.0%▲3.9 |
| 10 | Nathan MacKinnonFCOL | COL | 2 | 48 | 0.04 | 20 | 100%▲0.9 |
| 11 | Ian ColeDMIN/COL | MIN/COL | 1 | 54 | 0.02 | 1 | 4.9%▲4.3 |
| 12 | Tyson JostFCOL | COL | 1 | 54 | 0.02 | 7 | 0.0% |
| 13 | Carl SoderbergFCHI/COL | CHI/COL | 1 | 45 | 0.02 | 7 | — |
| 14 | Brandon SaadFCOL | COL | 1 | 44 | 0.02 | 15 | — |
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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