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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Washington Capitals
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 Washington Capitals in 2022-23: Marcus Johansson (WSH/MIN), 7 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marcus JohanssonFWSH/MIN | WSH/MIN | 7 | 80 | 0.09 | 19 | 0.7% |
| 2 | Garnet HathawayFWSH/BOS | WSH/BOS | 3 | 84 | 0.04 | 13 | 4.8%▲4.6 |
| 3 | Alex OvechkinFWSH | WSH | 3 | 73 | 0.04 | 42 | 96%▲1.2 |
| 4 | Nic DowdFWSH | WSH | 3 | 65 | 0.05 | 13 | 3.2%▲3.1 |
| 5 | Sonny MilanoFWSH | WSH | 3 | 64 | 0.05 | 11 | — |
| 6 | Evgeny KuznetsovFWSH | WSH | 2 | 81 | 0.02 | 12 | — |
| 7 | Dylan StromeFWSH | WSH | 2 | 81 | 0.02 | 23 | 83%▲11 |
| 8 | Erik GustafssonDWSH/TOR | WSH/TOR | 2 | 70 | 0.03 | 7 | 3.2%▲3.2 |
| 9 | Anthony ManthaFWSH | WSH | 2 | 67 | 0.03 | 11 | 52%▲15 |
| 10 | Dmitry OrlovDWSH/BOS | WSH/BOS | 2 | 66 | 0.03 | 7 | 35%▲21 |
| 11 | Craig SmithFBOS/WSH | BOS/WSH | 2 | 64 | 0.03 | 9 | — |
| 12 | T.J. OshieFWSH | WSH | 2 | 58 | 0.03 | 19 | — |
| 13 | Lars EllerFWSH/COL | WSH/COL | 1 | 84 | 0.01 | 10 | 0.2% |
| 14 | Conor ShearyFWSH | WSH | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 15 | 0.1% |
| 15 | Martin FehérváryDWSH | WSH | 1 | 67 | 0.01 | 6 | 27%▼7.7 |
| 16 | Tom WilsonFWSH | WSH | 1 | 33 | 0.03 | 13 | 94%▲6.3 |
| 17 | Beck MalenstynFWSH | WSH | 1 | 9 | 0.11 | 1 | 4.1%▲3.7 |
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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