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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Colorado Avalanche
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 Colorado Avalanche in 2021-22: Cale Makar (COL), 6 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cale MakarDCOL | COL | 6 | 77 | 0.08 | 28 | 100%▲1 |
| 2 | Nazem KadriFCOL | COL | 6 | 71 | 0.08 | 28 | 71%▼9 |
| 3 | Andre BurakovskyFCOL | COL | 5 | 80 | 0.06 | 22 | 5.6%▲5.4 |
| 4 | Alex NewhookFCOL | COL | 5 | 71 | 0.07 | 13 | 26%▲23 |
| 5 | Nathan MacKinnonFCOL | COL | 5 | 65 | 0.08 | 32 | 100%▲0.9 |
| 6 | Valeri NichushkinFCOL | COL | 5 | 62 | 0.08 | 25 | 60% |
| 7 | Gabriel LandeskogFCOL | COL | 5 | 51 | 0.10 | 30 | 50%▲32 |
| 8 | Devon ToewsDCOL | COL | 3 | 66 | 0.05 | 13 | 62%▼1 |
| 9 | Tyson JostFCOL/MIN | COL/MIN | 2 | 80 | 0.03 | 8 | 0.0% |
| 10 | Mikko RantanenFCOL | COL | 2 | 75 | 0.03 | 36 | 99%▲0.5 |
| 11 | Artturi LehkonenFMTL/COL | MTL/COL | 2 | 74 | 0.03 | 19 | 57%▲40 |
| 12 | Nicolas Aube-KubelFCOL/PHI | COL/PHI | 2 | 74 | 0.03 | 11 | — |
| 13 | Bowen ByramDCOL | COL | 2 | 30 | 0.07 | 5 | 96%▲6.5 |
| 14 | Logan O'ConnorFCOL | COL | 1 | 81 | 0.01 | 8 | 0.2% |
| 15 | Erik JohnsonDCOL | COL | 1 | 77 | 0.01 | 8 | — |
| 16 | Darren HelmFCOL | COL | 1 | 68 | 0.01 | 7 | — |
| 17 | Samuel GirardDCOL | COL | 1 | 67 | 0.01 | 5 | 9.0%▲8.6 |
| 18 | Kiefer SherwoodFCOL | COL | 1 | 11 | 0.09 | 1 | 59%▲6.6 |
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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