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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Montreal Canadiens
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 Montreal Canadiens in 2023-24: Cole Caufield (MTL), 7 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cole CaufieldFMTL | MTL | 7 | 82 | 0.09 | 28 | 100%▲1.2 |
| 2 | Sean MonahanFMTL/WPG | MTL/WPG | 5 | 83 | 0.06 | 26 | 19%▲13 |
| 3 | Joel ArmiaFMTL | MTL | 3 | 66 | 0.05 | 17 | 3.3%▲3.1 |
| 4 | Juraj SlafkovskýFMTL | MTL | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 20 | 100%▲1.5 |
| 5 | Brendan GallagherFMTL | MTL | 2 | 77 | 0.03 | 16 | 3.3%▲2.8 |
| 6 | Alex NewhookFMTL | MTL | 2 | 55 | 0.04 | 15 | 26%▲23 |
| 7 | Jake EvansFMTL | MTL | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 7 | 5.7%▲5.2 |
| 8 | Nick SuzukiFMTL | MTL | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 33 | 100%▲0.5 |
| 9 | Kaiden GuhleDMTL | MTL | 1 | 70 | 0.01 | 6 | 19%▲18 |
| 10 | Michael PezzettaFMTL | MTL | 1 | 61 | 0.02 | 3 | 0.0% |
| 11 | Jesse YlonenFMTL | MTL | 1 | 59 | 0.02 | 4 | — |
| 12 | Tanner PearsonFMTL | MTL | 1 | 54 | 0.02 | 5 | 0.0% |
| 13 | Justin BarronDMTL | MTL | 1 | 48 | 0.02 | 7 | 0.1% |
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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