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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Montreal Canadiens
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 Montreal Canadiens in 2025-26: Cole Caufield (MTL), 12 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cole CaufieldFMTL | MTL | 12 | 81 | 0.15 | 51 | 100%▲1.2 |
| 2 | Juraj SlafkovskýFMTL | MTL | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 30 | 100%▲1.5 |
| 3 | Ivan DemidovFMTL | MTL | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 19 | 91%▲22 |
| 4 | Lane HutsonDMTL | MTL | 3 | 82 | 0.04 | 12 | 99%▲3.1 |
| 5 | Mike MathesonDMTL | MTL | 3 | 78 | 0.04 | 7 | 85%▼7.8 |
| 6 | Zachary BolducFMTL | MTL | 3 | 78 | 0.04 | 12 | 21%▲19 |
| 7 | Nick SuzukiFMTL | MTL | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 29 | 100%▲0.5 |
| 8 | Oliver KapanenFMTL | MTL | 2 | 82 | 0.02 | 22 | 29%▲25 |
| 9 | Jake EvansFMTL | MTL | 2 | 68 | 0.03 | 12 | 5.7%▲5.2 |
| 10 | Alex NewhookFMTL | MTL | 2 | 42 | 0.05 | 13 | 26%▲23 |
| 11 | Kaiden GuhleDMTL | MTL | 2 | 39 | 0.05 | 2 | 19%▲18 |
| 12 | Noah DobsonDMTL | MTL | 1 | 80 | 0.01 | 12 | 98%▼1.2 |
| 13 | Phillip DanaultFMTL/LAK | MTL/LAK | 1 | 75 | 0.01 | 6 | 4.9%▲4.5 |
| 14 | Josh AndersonFMTL | MTL | 1 | 72 | 0.01 | 14 | 10%▲9.2 |
| 15 | Joseph VelenoFMTL | MTL | 1 | 61 | 0.02 | 2 | 4.1%▲3.9 |
| 16 | Alexandre TexierFMTL/STL | MTL/STL | 1 | 51 | 0.02 | 8 | 4.9%▲4.3 |
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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