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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Washington Capitals
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 Washington Capitals in 2023-24: John Carlson (WSH), 5 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John CarlsonDWSH | WSH | 5 | 82 | 0.06 | 10 | 99%▲2.4 |
| 2 | Dylan StromeFWSH | WSH | 5 | 82 | 0.06 | 27 | 83%▲11 |
| 3 | Alex OvechkinFWSH | WSH | 5 | 79 | 0.06 | 31 | 96%▲1.2 |
| 4 | T.J. OshieFWSH | WSH | 4 | 52 | 0.08 | 12 | — |
| 5 | Connor McMichaelFWSH | WSH | 3 | 80 | 0.04 | 18 | 34%▲27 |
| 6 | Tom WilsonFWSH | WSH | 3 | 74 | 0.04 | 18 | 94%▲6.3 |
| 7 | Nic DowdFWSH | WSH | 2 | 64 | 0.03 | 12 | 3.2%▲3.1 |
| 8 | Sonny MilanoFWSH | WSH | 2 | 49 | 0.04 | 15 | — |
| 9 | Beck MalenstynFWSH | WSH | 1 | 81 | 0.01 | 6 | 4.1%▲3.7 |
| 10 | Aliaksei ProtasFWSH | WSH | 1 | 78 | 0.01 | 6 | 59%▲33 |
| 11 | Rasmus SandinDWSH | WSH | 1 | 68 | 0.01 | 3 | 14%▲11 |
| 12 | Evgeny KuznetsovFWSH/CAR | WSH/CAR | 1 | 63 | 0.02 | 8 | — |
| 13 | Hendrix LapierreFWSH | WSH | 1 | 51 | 0.02 | 8 | 8.1%▲8 |
| 14 | Michael SgarbossaFWSH | WSH | 1 | 25 | 0.04 | 4 | — |
| 15 | Ethan BearDWSH | WSH | 1 | 24 | 0.04 | 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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