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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Buffalo Sabres
2024-25All 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 Buffalo Sabres in 2024-25: Tage Thompson (BUF), 6 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tage ThompsonFBUF | BUF | 6 | 76 | 0.08 | 44 | 100%▲1.3 |
| 2 | Josh NorrisFOTT/BUF | OTT/BUF | 5 | 56 | 0.09 | 21 | 39%▲32 |
| 3 | Alex TuchFBUF | BUF | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 36 | 94%▼5.5 |
| 4 | Jason ZuckerFBUF | BUF | 4 | 73 | 0.05 | 21 | 23%▲17 |
| 5 | JJ PeterkaFBUF | BUF | 3 | 77 | 0.04 | 27 | 75%▲37 |
| 6 | Jack QuinnFBUF | BUF | 3 | 74 | 0.04 | 15 | 45%▲29 |
| 7 | Jiri KulichFBUF | BUF | 3 | 62 | 0.05 | 15 | 26%▲25 |
| 8 | Bowen ByramDBUF | BUF | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 7 | 96%▲6.5 |
| 9 | Dylan CozensFBUF/OTT | BUF/OTT | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 16 | 90%▲3.9 |
| 10 | Ryan McLeodFBUF | BUF | 2 | 79 | 0.03 | 20 | 26%▲20 |
| 11 | Henri JokiharjuDBUF/BOS | BUF/BOS | 2 | 60 | 0.03 | 3 | 0.1% |
| 12 | Rasmus DahlinDBUF | BUF | 1 | 73 | 0.01 | 17 | 100%▲1 |
| 13 | Mattias SamuelssonDBUF | BUF | 1 | 62 | 0.02 | 4 | 79%▲9.3 |
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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