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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Colorado Avalanche
2023-24All 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 2023-24: Nathan MacKinnon (COL), 9 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan MacKinnonFCOL | COL | 9 | 82 | 0.11 | 51 | 100%▲0.9 |
| 2 | Mikko RantanenFCOL | COL | 9 | 80 | 0.11 | 42 | 99%▲0.5 |
| 3 | Valeri NichushkinFCOL | COL | 6 | 54 | 0.11 | 28 | 60% |
| 4 | Ryan JohansenFCOL | COL | 4 | 63 | 0.06 | 13 | — |
| 5 | Logan O'ConnorFCOL | COL | 4 | 57 | 0.07 | 13 | 0.2% |
| 6 | Yakov TreninFNSH/COL | NSH/COL | 3 | 76 | 0.04 | 12 | 22%▲16 |
| 7 | Devon ToewsDCOL | COL | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 12 | 62%▼1 |
| 8 | Ross ColtonFCOL | COL | 2 | 80 | 0.03 | 17 | 8.1%▲7.8 |
| 9 | Jonathan DrouinFCOL | COL | 2 | 79 | 0.03 | 19 | 0.5% |
| 10 | Tomas TatarFSEA/COL | SEA/COL | 2 | 70 | 0.03 | 9 | — |
| 11 | Artturi LehkonenFCOL | COL | 2 | 45 | 0.04 | 16 | 57%▲40 |
| 12 | Sean WalkerDPHI/COL | PHI/COL | 1 | 81 | 0.01 | 10 | 61%▼11 |
| 13 | Casey MittelstadtFBUF/COL | BUF/COL | 1 | 80 | 0.01 | 18 | 14%▲12 |
| 14 | Cale MakarDCOL | COL | 1 | 77 | 0.01 | 21 | 100%▲1 |
| 15 | Miles WoodFCOL | COL | 1 | 74 | 0.01 | 9 | 0.1% |
| 16 | Fredrik OlofssonFCOL | COL | 1 | 57 | 0.02 | 3 | — |
| 17 | Kurtis MacDermidFCOL/NJD | COL/NJD | 1 | 45 | 0.02 | 2 | 0.0% |
| 18 | Zach PariseFCOL | COL | 1 | 30 | 0.03 | 5 | — |
| 19 | Sam MalinskiDCOL | COL | 1 | 23 | 0.04 | 3 | 55%▲32 |
| 20 | Riley TufteFCOL | COL | 1 | 5 | 0.20 | 1 | 0.0% |
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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