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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Buffalo Sabres

2025-26All 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 2025-26: Jason Zucker (BUF), 7 GWG.

Season2026-27 2025-26 2024-25 2023-24

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2022-23 2021-22 2020-21 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18

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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders, Buffalo Sabres, 2025-26, All situations
#	Player	Team	GWG	GP	Per game	G	GWG % of G
1	Jason ZuckerFBUF	BUF	7	62	0.11	24	29.2%	15:37	66th	54th	23%▲17
2	Bowen ByramDBUF	BUF	5	82	0.06	11	45.5%	22:20	62nd	64th	96%▲6.5
3	Tage ThompsonFBUF	BUF	5	81	0.06	40	12.5%	19:15	69th	83rd	100%▲1.3
4	Peyton KrebsFBUF	BUF	4	82	0.05	12	33.3%	13:46	56th	61st	19%▲17
5	Jack QuinnFBUF	BUF	4	82	0.05	20	20.0%	15:39	67th	50th	45%▲29
6	Josh DoanFBUF	BUF	4	82	0.05	25	16.0%	15:52	66th	65th	61%▲44
7	Zach BensonFBUF	BUF	4	65	0.06	13	30.8%	15:53	59th	54th	56%▲44
8	Mattias SamuelssonDBUF	BUF	3	78	0.04	13	23.1%	22:50	68th	76th	79%▲9.3
9	Josh NorrisFBUF	BUF	3	44	0.07	13	23.1%	15:50	75th	78th	39%▲32
10	Alex TuchFBUF	BUF	2	79	0.03	33	6.1%	19:00	68th	79th	94%▼5.5
11	Tanner PearsonFWPG/BUF	WPG/BUF	2	56	0.04	7	28.6%	10:50	24th	40th	0.0%
12	Ryan McLeodFBUF	BUF	1	81	0.01	14	7.1%	17:37	61st	56th	26%▲20
13	Logan StanleyDWPG/BUF	WPG/BUF	1	76	0.01	9	11.1%	16:42	28th	26th	6.6%▲5.9
14	Sam CarrickFNYR/BUF	NYR/BUF	1	73	0.01	9	11.1%	10:28	19th	9th	0.1%
15	Noah OstlundFBUF	BUF	1	60	0.02	11	9.1%	13:58	68th	45th	25%▲24
16	Zach MetsaDBUF	BUF	1	43	0.02	2	50.0%	10:58	59th	11th	0.1%

How to read it

Goals that were the winning team's (loser's final score + 1)th goal, shootouts excluded.

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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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