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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Minnesota Wild
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 Minnesota Wild in 2020-21: Kevin Fiala (MIN), 5 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kevin FialaFMIN | MIN | 5 | 50 | 0.10 | 20 | 67%▼8.3 |
| 2 | Kirill KaprizovFMIN | MIN | 3 | 55 | 0.05 | 27 | 98%▼0.9 |
| 3 | Zach PariseFMIN | MIN | 3 | 45 | 0.07 | 7 | — |
| 4 | Nick BjugstadFMIN | MIN | 3 | 44 | 0.07 | 6 | 0.1% |
| 5 | Marcus JohanssonFMIN | MIN | 3 | 36 | 0.08 | 6 | 0.7% |
| 6 | Joel Eriksson EkFMIN | MIN | 2 | 56 | 0.04 | 19 | 82%▲10 |
| 7 | Nick BoninoFMIN | MIN | 2 | 55 | 0.04 | 10 | — |
| 8 | Jonas BrodinDMIN | MIN | 2 | 53 | 0.04 | 9 | 5.0%▲4.3 |
| 9 | Ryan HartmanFMIN | MIN | 2 | 51 | 0.04 | 7 | 40%▼17 |
| 10 | Nico SturmFMIN | MIN | 2 | 50 | 0.04 | 11 | 0.1% |
| 11 | Marcus FolignoFMIN | MIN | 2 | 39 | 0.05 | 11 | 4.2%▲3.4 |
| 12 | Ian ColeDMIN/COL | MIN/COL | 1 | 54 | 0.02 | 1 | 4.9%▲4.3 |
| 13 | Victor RaskFMIN | MIN | 1 | 54 | 0.02 | 10 | — |
| 14 | Mathew DumbaDMIN | MIN | 1 | 51 | 0.02 | 6 | 0.1% |
| 15 | Carson SoucyDMIN | MIN | 1 | 50 | 0.02 | 1 | 0.1% |
| 16 | Brad HuntDMIN | MIN | 1 | 12 | 0.08 | 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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