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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Washington Capitals
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 Washington Capitals in 2021-22: Tom Wilson (WSH), 5 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom WilsonFWSH | WSH | 5 | 78 | 0.06 | 24 | 94%▲6.3 |
| 2 | Alex OvechkinFWSH | WSH | 5 | 77 | 0.06 | 50 | 96%▲1.2 |
| 3 | Conor ShearyFWSH | WSH | 5 | 71 | 0.07 | 19 | 0.1% |
| 4 | Evgeny KuznetsovFWSH | WSH | 4 | 79 | 0.05 | 24 | — |
| 5 | Dmitry OrlovDWSH | WSH | 4 | 76 | 0.05 | 12 | 35%▲21 |
| 6 | Garnet HathawayFWSH | WSH | 4 | 76 | 0.05 | 14 | 4.8%▲4.6 |
| 7 | Martin FehérváryDWSH | WSH | 2 | 79 | 0.03 | 8 | 27%▼7.7 |
| 8 | John CarlsonDWSH | WSH | 2 | 78 | 0.03 | 17 | 99%▲2.4 |
| 9 | Lars EllerFWSH | WSH | 2 | 72 | 0.03 | 13 | 0.2% |
| 10 | Marcus JohanssonFSEA/WSH | SEA/WSH | 2 | 69 | 0.03 | 9 | 0.7% |
| 11 | Nick JensenDWSH | WSH | 1 | 76 | 0.01 | 5 | 0.1% |
| 12 | Justin SchultzDWSH | WSH | 1 | 74 | 0.01 | 4 | — |
| 13 | Carl HagelinFWSH | WSH | 1 | 53 | 0.02 | 3 | — |
| 14 | Nicklas BackstromFWSH | WSH | 1 | 47 | 0.02 | 6 | — |
| 15 | T.J. OshieFWSH | WSH | 1 | 44 | 0.02 | 11 | — |
| 16 | Johan LarssonFARI/WSH | ARI/WSH | 1 | 43 | 0.02 | 7 | — |
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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