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NHL Shorthanded Goals Leaders: Buffalo Sabres
2025-26All 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 Buffalo Sabres in 2025-26: Ryan McLeod (BUF), 5 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 | Ryan McLeodFBUF | BUF | 5 | 81 | 0.06 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 26%▲20 |
| 2 | Alex TuchFBUF | BUF | 3 | 79 | 0.04 | 2 | 5 | 33 | 94%▼5.5 |
| 3 | Beck MalenstynFBUF | BUF | 1 | 81 | 0.01 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4.1%▲3.7 |
| 4 | Mattias SamuelssonDBUF | BUF | 1 | 78 | 0.01 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 79%▲9.3 |
| 5 | Zach BensonFBUF | BUF | 1 | 65 | 0.02 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 56%▲44 |
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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