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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Minnesota Wild
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 Minnesota Wild in 2025-26: Kirill Kaprizov (MIN), 7 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kirill KaprizovFMIN | MIN | 7 | 78 | 0.09 | 45 | 98%▼0.9 |
| 2 | Mats ZuccarelloFMIN | MIN | 5 | 59 | 0.08 | 15 | 51%▲29 |
| 3 | Ryan HartmanFMIN | MIN | 4 | 76 | 0.05 | 23 | 40%▼17 |
| 4 | Marcus JohanssonFMIN | MIN | 4 | 75 | 0.05 | 15 | 0.7% |
| 5 | Vladimir TarasenkoFMIN | MIN | 4 | 75 | 0.05 | 23 | 10%▲1 |
| 6 | Matt BoldyFMIN | MIN | 3 | 76 | 0.04 | 42 | 100% |
| 7 | Joel Eriksson EkFMIN | MIN | 3 | 70 | 0.04 | 19 | 82%▲10 |
| 8 | Bobby BrinkFPHI/MIN | PHI/MIN | 3 | 68 | 0.04 | 15 | 14%▲12 |
| 9 | Jared SpurgeonDMIN | MIN | 2 | 79 | 0.03 | 6 | 10%▲8.2 |
| 10 | Danila YurovFMIN | MIN | 2 | 73 | 0.03 | 12 | 32%▲31 |
| 11 | Vinnie HinostrozaFMIN/FLA | MIN/FLA | 2 | 65 | 0.03 | 6 | 0.0% |
| 12 | Marco RossiFVAN/MIN | VAN/MIN | 2 | 50 | 0.04 | 12 | 60%▲14 |
| 13 | Yakov TreninFMIN | MIN | 1 | 82 | 0.01 | 6 | 22%▲16 |
| 14 | Brock FaberDMIN | MIN | 1 | 80 | 0.01 | 15 | 94%▼4.2 |
| 15 | Michael McCarronFNSH/MIN | NSH/MIN | 1 | 79 | 0.01 | 8 | 7.3%▲6.9 |
| 16 | Zeev BuiumDVAN/MIN | VAN/MIN | 1 | 76 | 0.01 | 6 | 73%▲53 |
| 17 | Quinn HughesDMIN/VAN | MIN/VAN | 1 | 74 | 0.01 | 7 | 100% |
| 18 | Jonas BrodinDMIN | MIN | 1 | 62 | 0.02 | 4 | 5.0%▲4.3 |
| 19 | Robby FabbriFSTL/MIN | STL/MIN | 1 | 21 | 0.05 | 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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