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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Colorado Avalanche
2022-23All 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 2022-23: Mikko Rantanen (COL), 9 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mikko RantanenFCOL | COL | 9 | 82 | 0.11 | 55 | 99%▲0.5 |
| 2 | Nathan MacKinnonFCOL | COL | 9 | 71 | 0.13 | 42 | 100%▲0.9 |
| 3 | Cale MakarDCOL | COL | 6 | 60 | 0.10 | 17 | 100%▲1 |
| 4 | J.T. CompherFCOL | COL | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 17 | 4.0%▲3.9 |
| 5 | Alex NewhookFCOL | COL | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 14 | 26%▲23 |
| 6 | Artturi LehkonenFCOL | COL | 3 | 64 | 0.05 | 21 | 57%▲40 |
| 7 | Matt NietoFSJS/COL | SJS/COL | 2 | 81 | 0.02 | 12 | — |
| 8 | Evan RodriguesFCOL | COL | 2 | 69 | 0.03 | 16 | 8.3%▲6.5 |
| 9 | Valeri NichushkinFCOL | COL | 2 | 53 | 0.04 | 17 | 60% |
| 10 | Josh MansonDCOL | COL | 2 | 27 | 0.07 | 2 | 32%▲16 |
| 11 | Lars EllerFWSH/COL | WSH/COL | 1 | 84 | 0.01 | 10 | 0.2% |
| 12 | Samuel GirardDCOL | COL | 1 | 76 | 0.01 | 6 | 9.0%▲8.6 |
| 13 | Denis MalginFCOL/TOR | COL/TOR | 1 | 65 | 0.02 | 13 | — |
| 14 | Kurtis MacDermidFCOL | COL | 1 | 44 | 0.02 | 1 | 0.0% |
| 15 | Bowen ByramDCOL | COL | 1 | 42 | 0.02 | 10 | 96%▲6.5 |
| 16 | Martin KautFCOL/SJS | COL/SJS | 1 | 36 | 0.03 | 4 | — |
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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