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NHL Game-Winning Goals Leaders: Washington Capitals
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 Washington Capitals in 2025-26: Jakob Chychrun (WSH), 8 GWG.
Game-Winning Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | GWG | GP | Per game | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jakob ChychrunDWSH | WSH | 8 | 80 | 0.10 | 26 | 99% |
| 2 | Alex OvechkinFWSH | WSH | 5 | 82 | 0.06 | 32 | 96%▲1.2 |
| 3 | Connor McMichaelFWSH | WSH | 5 | 78 | 0.06 | 14 | 34%▲27 |
| 4 | Aliaksei ProtasFWSH | WSH | 5 | 76 | 0.07 | 25 | 59%▲33 |
| 5 | Anthony BeauvillierFWSH | WSH | 4 | 82 | 0.05 | 15 | 4.0%▲3.8 |
| 6 | Ryan LeonardFWSH | WSH | 3 | 75 | 0.04 | 20 | 66%▲42 |
| 7 | Tom WilsonFWSH | WSH | 3 | 72 | 0.04 | 30 | 94%▲6.3 |
| 8 | Dylan StromeFWSH | WSH | 2 | 80 | 0.03 | 19 | 83%▲11 |
| 9 | Trevor van RiemsdykDWSH | WSH | 2 | 68 | 0.03 | 3 | 0.8% |
| 10 | Sonny MilanoFWSH | WSH | 2 | 31 | 0.06 | 4 | — |
| 11 | Justin SourdifFWSH | WSH | 1 | 78 | 0.01 | 15 | 17%▲16 |
| 12 | Rasmus SandinDWSH | WSH | 1 | 73 | 0.01 | 5 | 14%▲11 |
| 13 | John CarlsonDWSH/ANA | WSH/ANA | 1 | 71 | 0.01 | 14 | 99%▲2.4 |
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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