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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Montreal Canadiens
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 Montreal Canadiens in 2020-21: Tyler Toffoli (MTL), 5 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyler ToffoliFMTL | MTL | 5 | 52 | 0.10 | 28 | 38%▼18 |
| 2 | Josh AndersonFMTL | MTL | 5 | 52 | 0.10 | 17 | 10%▲9.2 |
| 3 | Jeff PetryDMTL | MTL | 2 | 55 | 0.04 | 12 | 0.1% |
| 4 | Brendan GallagherFMTL | MTL | 2 | 35 | 0.06 | 14 | 3.3%▲2.8 |
| 5 | Cole CaufieldFMTL | MTL | 2 | 10 | 0.20 | 4 | 100%▲1.2 |
| 6 | Nick SuzukiFMTL | MTL | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 15 | 100%▲0.5 |
| 7 | Jesperi KotkaniemiFMTL | MTL | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 5 | 3.2%▲3.1 |
| 8 | Eric StaalFBUF/MTL | BUF/MTL | 1 | 53 | 0.02 | 5 | — |
| 9 | Tomas TatarFMTL | MTL | 1 | 50 | 0.02 | 10 | — |
| 10 | Corey PerryFMTL | MTL | 1 | 49 | 0.02 | 9 | 7.4%▲5.9 |
| 11 | Shea WeberDMTL | MTL | 1 | 48 | 0.02 | 6 | — |
| 12 | Paul ByronFMTL | MTL | 1 | 46 | 0.02 | 5 | — |
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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