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NHL Team Second-Period Goals

2025-26All situationsThrough 82 team games

Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers and Tampa Bay Lightning lead NHL teams with a GF/GP of 1.22 in 2025-26, ahead of Montreal Canadiens (1.20).

Updated Oct 21, 7:13 PM ET

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Leaders: Second-Period Goals, 2025-26

1stDallas Stars82 GP1.22
2ndEdmonton Oilers82 GP1.22
3rdTampa Bay Lightning82 GP1.22
4thMontreal Canadiens82 GP1.20
5thColorado Avalanche82 GP1.18
6thPittsburgh Penguins82 GP1.18
7thBuffalo Sabres82 GP1.16
8thOttawa Senators82 GP1.16
9thAnaheim Ducks82 GP1.12
10thDetroit Red Wings82 GP1.12

The full ranked table, with filters, follows.

What Second-Period Goals measures

Goals scored and allowed in the second period, per game. The long change makes the second the highest-scoring period league-wide. All 32 teams, regular season, with the number of games behind each figure. Goals for per game in the period, with goals against and the difference.

Year to year this split repeats at r = 0.39 (252 team-seasons, 2017-18 to 2025-26), against r = 0.60 for overall points %. That is moderate, and most of it is team quality: a good team wins more in every split.

Second-period scoring repeats a little better than the other periods, mostly because good teams score more in every period. In 2025-26, 32 teams qualify for this board; the median is 1.05 and Dallas Stars leads at 1.22.

Second-Period Goals leaderboard

Season2026-27 2025-26 2024-25 2023-24

Older seasons

2022-23 2021-22 2020-21 2019-20 2018-19 2017-18

Year to year this split repeats at r = 0.39 (252 team-seasons, 2017-18 to 2025-26), against r = 0.60 for overall points %. That is moderate, and most of it is team quality: a good team wins more in every split.
The Home, Away and Last 10 columns (where shown) count only those games, so each holds a fraction of the season sample: a split of a few games is noise, not a trend.
Period and early-goal rates over a short window are mostly noise: ten games hold about 30 goals for and against per period. Read them over a season, and next to the team's overall goal rates.

NHL Team Second-Period Goals, 2025-26, All situations
#	Team	GF/GP	GP	GA/GP	Home	Away	Last 10	Diff/GP	Scored in %	Allowed in %	GF	GA	Pctl
1	Dallas Stars	1.22	82	0.83	1.12	1.32	1.60	+0.39	68.3%	52.4%	100	68	97
2	Edmonton Oilers	1.22	82	1.09	1.17	1.27	1.20	+0.13	74.4%	63.4%	100	89	97
3	Tampa Bay Lightning	1.22	82	0.84	1.24	1.20	0.90	+0.38	70.7%	59.8%	100	69	97
4	Montreal Canadiens	1.20	82	1.11	1.12	1.27	1.50	+0.09	72.0%	64.6%	98	91	90
5	Colorado Avalanche	1.18	82	0.88	1.32	1.05	0.90	+0.30	70.7%	61.0%	97	72	85
6	Pittsburgh Penguins	1.18	82	1.09	1.17	1.20	2.00	+0.10	70.7%	64.6%	97	89	85
7	Buffalo Sabres	1.16	82	0.88	1.34	0.98	0.70	+0.28	70.7%	64.6%	95	72	79
8	Ottawa Senators	1.16	82	0.98	1.07	1.24	0.90	+0.18	68.3%	65.9%	95	80	79
9	Anaheim Ducks	1.12	82	1.18	1.07	1.17	0.40	−0.06	72.0%	73.2%	92	97	73
10	Detroit Red Wings	1.12	82	1.04	1.24	1.00	0.80	+0.09	64.6%	68.3%	92	85	73
11	Minnesota Wild	1.10	82	0.88	0.95	1.24	1.60	+0.22	73.2%	58.5%	90	72	68
12	Winnipeg Jets	1.09	82	1.05	1.22	0.95	1.00	+0.04	63.4%	72.0%	89	86	65
13	Philadelphia Flyers	1.06	82	1.18	0.95	1.17	1.30	−0.12	70.7%	73.2%	87	97	60
14	Washington Capitals	1.06	82	1.02	1.17	0.95	1.50	+0.04	65.9%	64.6%	87	84	60
15	Columbus Blue Jackets	1.05	82	0.91	1.12	0.98	0.70	+0.13	67.1%	63.4%	86	75	52
16	St. Louis Blues	1.05	82	1.20	0.98	1.12	1.60	−0.15	64.6%	70.7%	86	98	52
17	Vegas Golden Knights	1.05	82	1.12	1.32	0.78	1.90	−0.07	65.9%	69.5%	86	92	52
18	New York Islanders	1.04	82	1.06	1.10	0.98	1.40	−0.02	62.2%	63.4%	85	87	44
19	San Jose Sharks	1.04	82	1.13	1.07	1.00	1.20	−0.10	69.5%	70.7%	85	93	44
20	Utah Mammoth	1.02	82	1.05	1.15	0.90	1.30	−0.02	64.6%	65.9%	84	86	39
21	Boston Bruins	1.01	82	0.99	1.10	0.93	0.50	+0.02	67.1%	59.8%	83	81	35
22	Nashville Predators	1.00	82	1.02	1.10	0.90	1.00	−0.02	63.4%	68.3%	82	84	32
23	Carolina Hurricanes	0.98	82	0.98	1.05	0.90	0.80	0.00	61.0%	63.4%	80	80	29
24	New York Rangers	0.95	82	0.96	0.95	0.95	1.60	−0.01	62.2%	65.9%	78	79	24
25	Toronto Maple Leafs	0.95	82	1.23	0.98	0.93	0.70	−0.28	67.1%	73.2%	78	101	24
26	Calgary Flames	0.94	82	1.02	1.05	0.83	1.50	−0.09	59.8%	63.4%	77	84	18
27	Seattle Kraken	0.94	82	1.05	1.05	0.83	0.50	−0.11	64.6%	72.0%	77	86	18
28	Los Angeles Kings	0.93	82	0.98	0.80	1.05	1.30	−0.05	63.4%	62.2%	76	80	13
29	New Jersey Devils	0.87	82	1.01	0.85	0.88	0.90	−0.15	62.2%	64.6%	71	83	10
30	Chicago Blackhawks	0.85	82	1.12	1.02	0.68	0.50	−0.27	58.5%	64.6%	70	92	6
31	Florida Panthers	0.84	82	1.11	0.95	0.73	0.70	−0.27	56.1%	65.9%	69	91	3
32	Vancouver Canucks	0.83	82	1.43	0.78	0.88	1.00	−0.60	56.1%	78.0%	68	117	0