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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Pittsburgh Penguins
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 Pittsburgh Penguins in 2023-24: Erik Karlsson (PIT), 4 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Erik KarlssonDPIT | PIT | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 11 | 95% |
| 2 | Jeff CarterFPIT | PIT | 4 | 72 | 0.06 | 11 | — |
| 3 | Sidney CrosbyFPIT | PIT | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 42 | 100%▲2.4 |
| 4 | Michael BuntingFCAR/PIT | CAR/PIT | 3 | 81 | 0.04 | 19 | 3.7%▲1 |
| 5 | Reilly SmithFPIT | PIT | 3 | 76 | 0.04 | 13 | — |
| 6 | Bryan RustFPIT | PIT | 3 | 62 | 0.05 | 28 | 85%▲2.5 |
| 7 | Evgeni MalkinFPIT | PIT | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 27 | 82%▲11 |
| 8 | Kris LetangDPIT | PIT | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 10 | 47%▼16 |
| 9 | Drew O'ConnorFPIT | PIT | 2 | 79 | 0.03 | 16 | 5.9%▲4.5 |
| 10 | Rickard RakellFPIT | PIT | 2 | 70 | 0.03 | 15 | 83%▲11 |
| 11 | Jake GuentzelFPIT/CAR | PIT/CAR | 2 | 67 | 0.03 | 30 | 100% |
| 12 | Alex NylanderFCBJ/PIT | CBJ/PIT | 2 | 28 | 0.07 | 11 | — |
| 13 | Marcus PetterssonDPIT | PIT | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 4 | 6.6%▲6.2 |
| 14 | Ryan GravesDPIT | PIT | 1 | 70 | 0.01 | 3 | 0.1% |
| 15 | Emil BemstromFCBJ/PIT | CBJ/PIT | 1 | 56 | 0.02 | 8 | — |
| 16 | Noel AcciariFPIT | PIT | 1 | 55 | 0.02 | 4 | 3.3%▲3.1 |
| 17 | Pierre-Olivier JosephDPIT | PIT | 1 | 52 | 0.02 | 2 | 0.1% |
| 18 | John LudvigDPIT | PIT | 1 | 33 | 0.03 | 3 | — |
| 19 | Radim ZohornaFPIT | PIT | 1 | 33 | 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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