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NHL Shorthanded Goals Leaders: Washington Capitals
2023-24All situationsThrough 82 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 2023-24: Tom Wilson (WSH), 2 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 | Tom WilsonFWSH | WSH | 2 | 74 | 0.03 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 94%▲6.3 |
| 2 | Connor McMichaelFWSH | WSH | 1 | 80 | 0.01 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 34%▲27 |
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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