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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Pittsburgh Penguins
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 Pittsburgh Penguins in 2020-21: Jake Guentzel (PIT), 7 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake GuentzelFPIT | PIT | 7 | 56 | 0.13 | 23 | 100% |
| 2 | Bryan RustFPIT | PIT | 6 | 56 | 0.11 | 22 | 85%▲2.5 |
| 3 | Sidney CrosbyFPIT | PIT | 5 | 55 | 0.09 | 24 | 100%▲2.4 |
| 4 | Jared McCannFPIT | PIT | 3 | 43 | 0.07 | 14 | 72%▲1.9 |
| 5 | Kasperi KapanenFPIT | PIT | 3 | 40 | 0.07 | 11 | 9.2%▲9 |
| 6 | Kris LetangDPIT | PIT | 2 | 55 | 0.04 | 7 | 47%▼16 |
| 7 | Jeff CarterFLAK/PIT | LAK/PIT | 1 | 54 | 0.02 | 17 | — |
| 8 | Cody CeciDPIT | PIT | 1 | 53 | 0.02 | 4 | 0.3% |
| 9 | John MarinoDPIT | PIT | 1 | 52 | 0.02 | 3 | 18%▲13 |
| 10 | Mike MathesonDPIT | PIT | 1 | 44 | 0.02 | 5 | 85%▼7.8 |
| 11 | Teddy BluegerFPIT | PIT | 1 | 43 | 0.02 | 7 | 4.8%▲4.6 |
| 12 | Jason ZuckerFPIT | PIT | 1 | 38 | 0.03 | 9 | 23%▲17 |
| 13 | Evan RodriguesFPIT | PIT | 1 | 35 | 0.03 | 7 | 8.3%▲6.5 |
| 14 | Radim ZohornaFPIT | PIT | 1 | 8 | 0.13 | 2 | — |
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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