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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Washington Capitals
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 Washington Capitals in 2020-21: Jakub Vrana (WSH/DET), 7 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jakub VranaFWSH/DET | WSH/DET | 7 | 50 | 0.14 | 19 | — |
| 2 | Alex OvechkinFWSH | WSH | 6 | 45 | 0.13 | 24 | 96%▲1.2 |
| 3 | Tom WilsonFWSH | WSH | 4 | 47 | 0.09 | 13 | 94%▲6.3 |
| 4 | Evgeny KuznetsovFWSH | WSH | 4 | 41 | 0.10 | 9 | — |
| 5 | Nic DowdFWSH | WSH | 3 | 56 | 0.05 | 11 | 3.2%▲3.1 |
| 6 | Michael RafflFPHI/WSH | PHI/WSH | 3 | 44 | 0.07 | 4 | — |
| 7 | Daniel SprongFWSH | WSH | 3 | 42 | 0.07 | 13 | — |
| 8 | Dmitry OrlovDWSH | WSH | 2 | 51 | 0.04 | 8 | 35%▲21 |
| 9 | Lars EllerFWSH | WSH | 2 | 44 | 0.05 | 8 | 0.2% |
| 10 | T.J. OshieFWSH | WSH | 1 | 53 | 0.02 | 22 | — |
| 11 | Conor ShearyFWSH | WSH | 1 | 53 | 0.02 | 14 | 0.1% |
| 12 | John CarlsonDWSH | WSH | 1 | 52 | 0.02 | 10 | 99%▲2.4 |
| 13 | Justin SchultzDWSH | WSH | 1 | 46 | 0.02 | 3 | — |
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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