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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Pittsburgh Penguins
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 Pittsburgh Penguins in 2024-25: Sidney Crosby (PIT), 10 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sidney CrosbyFPIT | PIT | 10 | 80 | 0.13 | 33 | 100%▲2.4 |
| 2 | Philip TomasinoFPIT/NSH | PIT/NSH | 6 | 61 | 0.10 | 11 | — |
| 3 | Bryan RustFPIT | PIT | 5 | 71 | 0.07 | 31 | 85%▲2.5 |
| 4 | Evgeni MalkinFPIT | PIT | 3 | 68 | 0.04 | 16 | 82%▲11 |
| 5 | Drew O'ConnorFPIT/VAN | PIT/VAN | 2 | 84 | 0.02 | 10 | 5.9%▲4.5 |
| 6 | Tommy NovakFNSH/PIT | NSH/PIT | 2 | 54 | 0.04 | 13 | 11%▲9.1 |
| 7 | Erik KarlssonDPIT | PIT | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 11 | 95% |
| 8 | Rickard RakellFPIT | PIT | 1 | 81 | 0.01 | 35 | 83%▲11 |
| 9 | Marcus PetterssonDPIT/VAN | PIT/VAN | 1 | 78 | 0.01 | 4 | 6.6%▲6.2 |
| 10 | Michael BuntingFPIT/NSH | PIT/NSH | 1 | 76 | 0.01 | 19 | 3.7%▲1 |
| 11 | Cody GlassFPIT/NJD | PIT/NJD | 1 | 65 | 0.02 | 6 | 4.9%▲4.5 |
| 12 | Kevin HayesFPIT | PIT | 1 | 64 | 0.02 | 13 | 0.0% |
| 13 | Blake LizotteFPIT | PIT | 1 | 59 | 0.02 | 11 | 0.1% |
| 14 | Vladislav KolyachonokDUTA/PIT | UTA/PIT | 1 | 35 | 0.03 | 2 | 0.0% |
| 15 | Bokondji ImamaFPIT | PIT | 1 | 16 | 0.06 | 1 | 0.2% |
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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