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NHL Shorthanded Goals Leaders: Washington Capitals
2019-20All situationsThrough 71 team games
This board ranks every NHL skater by shorthanded goals, regular season only, listing players with at least one. Pick any season back to 2017-18 above the table.
Shorthanded goals are scored while killing a penalty. They are rare, a few per player at most, and usually come from fast forwards on the penalty kill who jump on a bad pass. SHG is a rare category: the leaders often have only three or four. Penalty-kill time is the only real predictor.
Leader for the Washington Capitals in 2019-20: Nic Dowd (WSH), 3 SHG.
- Completed seasons use the NHL's official power-play and shorthanded totals.
Shorthanded Goals leaderboard
| # | Player | Team | SHG | GP | Per game | SHA | SHP | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nic DowdFWSH | WSH | 3 | 56 | 0.05 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 3.2%▲3.1 |
| 2 | Chandler StephensonFVGK/WSH | VGK/WSH | 2 | 65 | 0.03 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 17%▲13 |
| 3 | Lars EllerFWSH | WSH | 1 | 69 | 0.01 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 0.2% |
| 4 | Tom WilsonFWSH | WSH | 1 | 68 | 0.01 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 94%▲6.3 |
| 5 | Carl HagelinFWSH | WSH | 1 | 58 | 0.02 | 2 | 3 | 8 | — |
How to read it
Goals scored while the team is short a skater.
How reliable is it?
Very low counts: a shorthanded goal total from one season says little about the next.
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