More skater stats
NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Pittsburgh Penguins
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 Pittsburgh Penguins in 2021-22: Sidney Crosby (PIT), 9 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sidney CrosbyFPIT | PIT | 9 | 69 | 0.13 | 31 | 100%▲2.4 |
| 2 | Jake GuentzelFPIT | PIT | 7 | 76 | 0.09 | 40 | 100% |
| 3 | Mike MathesonDPIT | PIT | 5 | 74 | 0.07 | 11 | 85%▼7.8 |
| 4 | Evgeni MalkinFPIT | PIT | 5 | 41 | 0.12 | 20 | 82%▲11 |
| 5 | Kris LetangDPIT | PIT | 3 | 78 | 0.04 | 10 | 47%▼16 |
| 6 | Evan RodriguesFPIT | PIT | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 19 | 8.3%▲6.5 |
| 7 | Kasperi KapanenFPIT | PIT | 2 | 79 | 0.03 | 11 | 9.2%▲9 |
| 8 | Jeff CarterFPIT | PIT | 2 | 76 | 0.03 | 19 | — |
| 9 | Rickard RakellFANA/PIT | ANA/PIT | 2 | 70 | 0.03 | 20 | 83%▲11 |
| 10 | Brock McGinnFPIT | PIT | 2 | 64 | 0.03 | 12 | — |
| 11 | Danton HeinenFPIT | PIT | 1 | 76 | 0.01 | 18 | 0.0% |
| 12 | Dominik SimonFPIT/ANA | PIT/ANA | 1 | 72 | 0.01 | 3 | — |
| 13 | Brian BoyleFPIT | PIT | 1 | 66 | 0.02 | 11 | — |
| 14 | Bryan RustFPIT | PIT | 1 | 60 | 0.02 | 24 | 85%▲2.5 |
| 15 | Sam LaffertyFCHI/PIT | CHI/PIT | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 5 | 0.0% |
| 16 | Mark FriedmanDPIT | PIT | 1 | 26 | 0.04 | 1 | — |
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).
About our data sources →Projected next
Our fantasy projections for game-winning goals: who should lead the coming games.
Related leaderboards
- Game-Winning Goals: forwardsGoals that were the winning team's (loser's final score + 1)th goal, shootouts excluded.
- Game-Winning Goals: defenseGoals that were the winning team's (loser's final score + 1)th goal, shootouts excluded.
- Game-Winning Goals per 60Game-Winning Goals per 60 minutes of ice time, all situations.
- GoalsTotal goals this season, all situations.