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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Montreal Canadiens
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 Montreal Canadiens in 2022-23: Josh Anderson (MTL), 5 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh AndersonFMTL | MTL | 5 | 69 | 0.07 | 21 | 10%▲9.2 |
| 2 | Mike HoffmanFMTL | MTL | 3 | 67 | 0.04 | 14 | — |
| 3 | Cole CaufieldFMTL | MTL | 3 | 46 | 0.07 | 26 | 100%▲1.2 |
| 4 | Nick SuzukiFMTL | MTL | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 26 | 100%▲0.5 |
| 5 | Kirby DachFMTL | MTL | 2 | 58 | 0.03 | 14 | 12%▲12 |
| 6 | Mike MathesonDMTL | MTL | 2 | 48 | 0.04 | 8 | 85%▼7.8 |
| 7 | Brendan GallagherFMTL | MTL | 2 | 37 | 0.05 | 8 | 3.3%▲2.8 |
| 8 | Christian DvorakFMTL | MTL | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 10 | 16%▲13 |
| 9 | David SavardDMTL | MTL | 1 | 62 | 0.02 | 3 | — |
| 10 | Rem PitlickFMTL | MTL | 1 | 46 | 0.02 | 6 | — |
| 11 | Justin BarronDMTL | MTL | 1 | 39 | 0.03 | 4 | 0.1% |
| 12 | Jesse YlonenFMTL | MTL | 1 | 37 | 0.03 | 6 | — |
| 13 | Rafael Harvey-PinardFMTL | MTL | 1 | 34 | 0.03 | 14 | — |
| 14 | Anthony RichardFMTL | MTL | 1 | 13 | 0.08 | 3 | — |
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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