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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Buffalo Sabres
2021-22All situationsThrough 82 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 Buffalo Sabres in 2021-22: Victor Olofsson (BUF), 6 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victor OlofssonFBUF | BUF | 6 | 72 | 0.08 | 20 | 14%▲14 |
| 2 | Jeff SkinnerFBUF | BUF | 4 | 80 | 0.05 | 33 | 0.1% |
| 3 | Tage ThompsonFBUF | BUF | 4 | 78 | 0.05 | 38 | 100%▲1.3 |
| 4 | Rasmus DahlinDBUF | BUF | 3 | 80 | 0.04 | 13 | 100%▲1 |
| 5 | Vinnie HinostrozaFBUF | BUF | 2 | 62 | 0.03 | 13 | 0.0% |
| 6 | Peyton KrebsFBUF/VGK | BUF/VGK | 2 | 57 | 0.04 | 7 | 19%▲17 |
| 7 | Rasmus AsplundFBUF | BUF | 1 | 80 | 0.01 | 8 | — |
| 8 | Dylan CozensFBUF | BUF | 1 | 79 | 0.01 | 13 | 90%▲3.9 |
| 9 | Kyle OkposoFBUF | BUF | 1 | 74 | 0.01 | 21 | — |
| 10 | Cody EakinFBUF | BUF | 1 | 69 | 0.01 | 4 | — |
| 11 | Zemgus GirgensonsFBUF | BUF | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 10 | 3.2%▲3 |
| 12 | Casey MittelstadtFBUF | BUF | 1 | 40 | 0.03 | 6 | 14%▲12 |
| 13 | Mark JankowskiFBUF | BUF | 1 | 19 | 0.05 | 2 | 0.2% |
| 14 | Drake CaggiulaFBUF | BUF | 1 | 18 | 0.06 | 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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