NHL & WHA Single Season Playoff Leaders and Records for Game-Winning Goals

Playoff Leaders and Records: Single Season ▪ Career ▪ Active ▪ Yearly ▪ Progressive

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Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame are marked with an asterisk (*).

NHL Leaders Rank Player GWG Year 1. Brad Richards 7 2004 2. Joe Sakic 6 1996   Joe Nieuwendyk* 6 1999 4. Jari Kurri* 5 1987   Bobby Smith 5 1991   Fernando Pisani 5 2006   Mario Lemieux* 5 1992   Mike Bossy* 5 1983   Dustin Byfuglien 5 2010   Johan Franzen 5 2008 11. Guy Lafleur* 4 1975   Jaromir Jagr 4 1992   Claude Lemieux 4 1986   Brett Hull* 4 2000   Chris Drury 4 1999   Rick MacLeish 4 1974   Peter Forsberg 4 2002   Brian Leetch* 4 1994   Mark Messier* 4 1994   Ron Francis* 4 1991   Sergei Fedorov 4 1997   Jeff Friesen 4 2003   Bill Barber* 4 1980   Joe Juneau 4 1998   Vyacheslav Kozlov 4 1998   Ken Linseman 4 1984   Rod Brind'Amour 4 2006   Paul Coffey* 4 1985   Clark Gillies* 4 1977   Darryl Sutter 4 1985   Henrik Zetterberg 4 2008   Kevin Stevens 4 1991   Cam Neely* 4 1991   Jamie Langenbrunner 4 2003   Steve Payne 4 1981   Danny Briere 4 2010   Jaromir Jagr 4 2000   Petr Klima 4 1988   Bobby Hull* 4 1971   John Druce 4 1990   Claude Lemieux 4 1997   Neal Broten 4 1995   Peter Forsberg 4 2000   Vyacheslav Kozlov 4 1995   David Krejci 4 2011   Al MacInnis* 4 1989   Daniel Alfredsson 4 2007 48. Vincent Damphousse 3 2004   Esa Tikkanen 3 1991   Craig Laughlin 3 1984   Martin St. Louis 3 2004   Keith Primeau 3 2004   Wayne Gretzky* 3 1984   Brian Propp 3 1991   Jarome Iginla 3 2004   Rick Middleton 3 1988   Petr Sykora 3 2000   Ruslan Fedotenko 3 2004   Stephane Richer 3 1989   Wayne Gretzky* 3 1983   Mike Bossy* 3 1981   Dino Ciccarelli* 3 1981   Ken Linseman 3 1981   Willi Plett 3 1981   Cory Stillman 3 2006   Ales Kotalik 3 2006   Kris King 3 1992   Rob Brown 3 1989   Theoren Fleury 3 1989   Doug Gilmour* 3 1989   Milan Hejduk 3 1999   Jari Kurri* 3 1988   Mike Bossy* 3 1982   Clark Gillies* 3 1982   Mats Naslund 3 1984   Brent Sutter 3 1984   Petr Klima 3 1991   Jamie Langenbrunner 3 1999   Dixon Ward 3 1999   Owen Nolan 3 2000   Bob Gainey* 3 1986   Brian Propp 3 1987   Walt Poddubny 3 1986   Bobby Smith 3 1986   Mats Naslund 3 1987   Tim Kerr 3 1987   Brett Hull* 3 1990   Ron Francis* 3 2002   Chris Drury 3 2002   Daniel Alfredsson 3 2002   Steve Thomas 3 1990   Scott Young 3 2001   Joe Sakic 3 2001   Shayne Corson 3 1991   Craig Simpson 3 1988   Jari Kurri* 3 1990   Brett Hull* 3 1988   Wayne Gretzky* 3 1985   Patrick Marleau 3 2002   Ilkka Sinisalo 3 1985   Wayne Gretzky* 3 1988   Bobby Holik 3 2001   Mario Lemieux* 3 2001   Steve Thomas 3 2003   Martin St. Louis 3 2003   Brian Rafalski 3 2001   Curtis Brown 3 1999   Craig Simpson 3 1990   Ken Hodge 3 1972   John LeClair 3 1997   Esa Tikkanen 3 1997   Claude Lemieux 3 1995   John McKenzie 3 1970   Guy Lafleur* 3 1976   Mike Gartner* 3 1994   Dave Andreychuk 3 1993   Joe Pavelski 3 2008   Jacques Lemaire* 3 1977   Steve Shutt* 3 1977   Mike Modano 3 2008   Evgeni Malkin 3 2008   Danny Briere 3 2008   Rene Robert 3 1975   Dan Cleary 3 2009   Jonathan Toews 3 2010   Miroslav Satan 3 2010   Joe Pavelski 3 2010   Michael Cammalleri 3 2010   Phil Esposito* 3 1972   Yvan Cournoyer* 3 1973   Kirk Muller 3 1993   J.C. Tremblay 3 1971   Geoff Courtnall 3 1994   Evgeni Malkin 3 2009   Tyler Kennedy 3 2009   Jussi Jokinen 3 2009   Johan Franzen 3 2009   Michel Briere 3 1970   Jeremy Roenick 3 1992   Chris Drury 3 2007   Martin Gelinas 3 2004   Wayne Gretzky* 3 1993   Michal Grosek 3 1998   Bob Nystrom 3 1980   Steve Payne 3 1980   Dustin Brown 3 2012   Mike Bossy* 3 1984   Kevin Stevens 3 1992   Vincent Lecavalier 3 2011   Ryan Getzlaf 3 2007   John LeClair 3 1993   Chris Chelios 3 1995   Chris Higgins 3 2011   Vincent Damphousse 3 1993   Joe Murphy 3 1995   Travis Moen 3 2007   Rick MacLeish 3 1978   Ron Greschner 3 1979   Nathan Horton 3 2011 160. Geoff Courtnall 2 1997   Trent Klatt 2 1997   Darcy Tucker 2 2000   Vyacheslav Kozlov 2 1997   Mike Modano 2 2000   John Madden 2 2000   Dave Lowry 2 1996   Joe Murphy 2 1996   Petr Nedved 2 1996   Adam Graves 2 1997   Wayne Gretzky* 2 1997   Daniel Alfredsson 2 1997   Scott Stevens* 2 2000   Gino Odjick 2 1996   Chris Pronger 2 2000   Joe Nieuwendyk* 2 2000   Valeri Kamensky 2 1997   Rob Niedermayer 2 1996   Roman Lyashenko 2 2000   John LeClair 2 2000   Eric Lindros 2 1996   Darren McCarty 2 1997   Brendan Shanahan 2 1998   Daniel Sedin 2 2010   Jamie Macoun 2 1998   Mark Recchi 2 1998   Steve Yzerman* 2 1999   Jeremy Roenick 2 1998   Pierre Turgeon 2 1999   Joe Sakic 2 1998   Alexei Yashin 2 1998   Joe Thornton 2 1999   Mats Sundin 2 1999   Sergei Berezin 2 1999   Shane Doan 2 1999   Brett Hull* 2 1999   Nicklas Lidstrom 2 1998   Benoit Hogue 2 1998   Sergei Gonchar 2 1998   Daymond Langkow 2 2000   Mike Modano 2 1997   Derek Plante 2 1997   Scott Gomez 2 2000   Chris Drury 2 2000   Jim Campbell 2 1998   Brendan Shanahan 2 1997   Ryan Smyth 2 1997   Steve Yzerman* 2 1997   Alexei Zhitnik 2 1999   Tim Kerr 2 1989   Greg Adams 2 1998   Donald Audette 2 1998   Peter Bondra 2 1998   Yanic Perreault 2 1999   Scott Niedermayer 2 2007   Alex Ovechkin 2 2008   R.J. Umberger 2 2008   Steve Bernier 2 2009   Sidney Crosby 2 2009   Sergei Gonchar 2 2009   Bill Guerin 2 2009   Patrick Marleau 2 2009   Scott Niedermayer 2 2009   Sami Salo 2 2009   Mikael Samuelsson 2 2009   Marc Savard 2 2009   Owen Nolan 2 2008   Brenden Morrow 2 2008   Michael Nylander 2 2007   Samuel Pahlsson 2 2007   Dustin Penner 2 2007   Teemu Selanne 2 2007   Brendan Shanahan 2 2007   Thomas Vanek 2 2007   Jamal Mayers 2 2002   Stu Barnes 2 2008   Marian Hossa 2 2008   Jiri Hudler 2 2008   Ryan Malone 2 2008   Patrick Sharp 2 2009   Maxime Talbot 2 2009   Jonathan Toews 2 2009   Michael Ryder 2 2011   Daniel Sedin 2 2011   Devin Setoguchi 2 2011   Joe Thornton 2 2011   Jarret Stoll 2 2012   David Legwand 2 2012   Chris Kreider 2 2012   Martin Hanzal 2 2012   Dan Girardi 2 2012   David Clarkson 2 2012   Brian Boyle 2 2012   Rich Peverley 2 2011   Ryan Kesler 2 2011   Simon Gagne 2 2010   Claude Giroux 2 2010   Ville Leino 2 2010   Patrick Marleau 2 2010   Kris Versteeg 2 2010   Henrik Zetterberg 2 2010   Alexandre Burrows 2 2011   Jason Chimera 2 2011   Valtteri Filppula 2 2011   Brian Gionta 2 2011   Tomas Holmstrom 2 2011   Mikkel Boedker 2 2012   Trevor Linden 2 2007   Stu Barnes 2 2001   Martin Havlat 2 2002   Tomas Holmstrom 2 2002   Brett Hull* 2 2002   Nicklas Lidstrom 2 2002   Alyn McCauley 2 2002   Alexander Mogilny 2 2002   Steve Reinprecht 2 2002   Brendan Shanahan 2 2002   Niclas Wallin 2 2002   Steve Yzerman* 2 2002   Stu Barnes 2 2003   Adam Graves 2 2002   Brian Gionta 2 2002   Sergei Berezin 2 2001   Adam Deadmarsh 2 2001   Chris Drury 2 2001   Patrik Elias 2 2001   Peter Forsberg 2 2001   Alexander Mogilny 2 2001   Martin Straka 2 2001   Petr Sykora 2 2001   Ales Hemsky 2 2006   Alex Tanguay 2 2001   Donald Audette 2 2002   Patrik Elias 2 2003   Martin Havlat 2 2003   Ed Jovanovski 2 2003   Peter Forsberg 2 2006   Brian Gionta 2 2006   Shawn Horcoff 2 2006   Patrick Marleau 2 2006   Samuel Pahlsson 2 2006   Mark Recchi 2 2006   Teemu Selanne 2 2006   Maxim Afinogenov 2 2007   Pavel Datsyuk 2 2007   Johan Franzen 2 2007   Dany Heatley 2 2007   Danny Briere 2 2006   Joe Sakic 2 2004   Mike Leclerc 2 2003   Mike Modano 2 2003   Steve Rucchin 2 2003   Petr Sykora 2 2003   Wes Walz 2 2003   Todd White 2 2003   Shean Donovan 2 2004   Marian Hossa 2 2004   Patrick Marleau 2 2004   Fredrik Modin 2 2004   Joe Nieuwendyk* 2 2004   Nicklas Lidstrom 2 2007   Mario Lemieux* 2 1996   Peter McNab 2 1978   Al MacAdam 2 1980   Gilbert Perreault* 2 1980   Steve Shutt* 2 1980   Bryan Trottier* 2 1980   John Van Boxmeer 2 1980   Behn Wilson 2 1980   Mike Allison 2 1981   Mike Crombeen 2 1981   Butch Goring 2 1981   Matti Hagman 2 1981   Jorgen Pettersson 2 1981   Denis Potvin* 2 1981   Clark Gillies* 2 1980   Bob Dailey 2 1980   Rick Middleton 2 1978   Bob Nystrom 2 1978   Guy Lafleur* 2 1978   Wayne Cashman 2 1978   Yvan Cournoyer* 2 1978   Ron Ellis 2 1978   Phil Esposito* 2 1979   Guy Lafleur* 2 1979   Reggie Leach 2 1979   Jacques Lemaire* 2 1979   Jean Ratelle* 2 1979   Bobby Clarke* 2 1980   John Tonelli 2 1981   Butch Goring 2 1982   Dale Hunter 2 1982   Tom Lysiak 2 1983   Dino Ciccarelli* 2 1983   Bob Bourne 2 1983   Ralph Backstrom 2 1968   Mark Messier* 2 1984   Steve Payne 2 1984   Hakan Loob 2 1984   Keith Acton 2 1985   Dave Andreychuk 2 1985   Dale Hunter 2 1985   Mike Krushelnyski 2 1985   Jari Kurri* 2 1985   Tony McKegney 2 1983   Greg Meredith 2 1983   Rick Kehoe 2 1982   Lars Molin 2 1982   Barry Pederson 2 1982   Denis Savard* 2 1982   Duane Sutter 2 1982   Bryan Trottier* 2 1982   Tiger Williams 2 1982   Glenn Anderson* 2 1983   John Tonelli 2 1983   Bobby Smith 2 1983   Barry Pederson 2 1983   Mark Pavelich 2 1983   Mats Naslund 2 1985   Lanny McDonald* 2 1978   Larry Keenan 2 1968   Phil Goyette 2 1970   Larry Keenan 2 1970   Bobby Orr* 2 1970   Paul Henderson 2 1971   Guy Lapointe* 2 1971   Lou Nanne 2 1971   Pete Stemkowski 2 1971   Rod Gilbert* 2 1972   Walt Tkaczuk 2 1972   Mike Walton 2 1972   Lou Angotti 2 1973   Dennis Hextall 2 1973   Bill Goldsworthy 2 1970   Phil Esposito* 2 1970   Jacques Lemaire* 2 1968   Parker MacDonald 2 1968   Bill McCreary 2 1968   Yvan Cournoyer* 2 1969   Terry Crisp 2 1969   Phil Esposito* 2 1969   John Ferguson 2 1969   Larry Keenan 2 1969   Bobby Rousseau 2 1969   Gary Sabourin 2 1969   Derek Sanderson 2 1969   Wayne Cashman 2 1970   Stan Mikita* 2 1973   Dick Redmond 2 1973   Henri Richard* 2 1973   Jim Lorentz 2 1975   Ed Westfall 2 1975   Mel Bridgman 2 1976   Danny Gare 2 1976   Butch Goring 2 1976   Orest Kindrachuk 2 1976   Reggie Leach 2 1976   Billy MacMillan 2 1976   Serge Savard* 2 1976   Butch Goring 2 1977   Guy Lafleur* 2 1977   Reggie Leach 2 1977   Reggie Leach 2 1975   Clark Gillies* 2 1975   Marc Tardif 2 1973   Bobby Clarke* 2 1974   Yvan Cournoyer* 2 1974   Phil Esposito* 2 1974   Ron Harris 2 1974   Bruce MacGregor 2 1974   Bobby Orr* 2 1974   Jim Pappin 2 1974   Gregg Sheppard 2 1974   Bobby Clarke* 2 1975   Gary Dornhoefer 2 1975   Andre Dupont 2 1975   Gregg Sheppard 2 1977   Dino Ciccarelli* 2 1991   Guy Carbonneau 2 1993   Ray Ferraro 2 1993   Mike Foligno 2 1993   Brett Hull* 2 1993   Craig Janney 2 1993   Luc Robitaille* 2 1993   Warren Rychel 2 1993   Tomas Sandstrom 2 1993   Teemu Selanne 2 1993   Scott Young 2 1993   Billy MacMillan 2 1977   Greg Adams 2 1994   Jeff Brown 2 1993   Glenn Anderson* 2 1993   Wayne Gretzky* 2 1991   Brett Hull* 2 1991   Mark Recchi 2 1991   Luc Robitaille* 2 1991   Cliff Ronning 2 1991   Vladimir Ruzicka 2 1991   Peter Stastny* 2 1991   Bryan Trottier* 2 1991   Ron Francis* 2 1992   Jocelyn Lemieux 2 1992   Joe Murphy 2 1992   Adam Oates 2 1992   Glenn Anderson* 2 1994   Pavel Bure 2 1994   Shawn Burr 2 1994   Randy McKay 2 1995   Stephane Richer 2 1995   Luc Robitaille* 2 1995   Cliff Ronning 2 1995   Stu Barnes 2 1996   Vincent Damphousse 2 1996   Sergei Fedorov 2 1996   Tom Fitzgerald 2 1996   Adam Graves 2 1996   Mike Hough 2 1996   Valeri Kamensky 2 1996   Uwe Krupp 2 1996   Nicklas Lidstrom 2 1995   Karl Dykhuis 2 1995   Theoren Fleury 2 1994   Johan Garpenlov 2 1994   Alex Kovalev 2 1994   Claude Lemieux 2 1994   Sergei Makarov 2 1994   Stephane Matteau 2 1994   Mike Modano 2 1994   Kirk Muller 2 1994   Stephane Richer 2 1994   Cliff Ronning 2 1994   Dino Ciccarelli* 2 1995   Eric Desjardins 2 1995   Igor Larionov* 2 1996   Dave Christian 2 1991   Brian Propp 2 1985   Mike Krushelnyski 2 1986   John Ogrodnick 2 1987   Rick Tocchet 2 1987   Bryan Trottier* 2 1987   Pat LaFontaine* 2 1987   Joe Kocur 2 1987   Gilles Hamel 2 1987   Michel Goulet* 2 1987   Dan Daoust 2 1987   Shawn Burr 2 1987   Glenn Anderson* 2 1987   Mike Allison 2 1987   Doug Gilmour* 2 1986   Kevin Dineen 2 1986   Peter Stastny* 2 1985   Brent Sutter 2 1985   Rick Tocchet 2 1985   Wayne Gretzky* 2 1986   Scott Stevens* 2 1986   Dan Quinn 2 1986   Joe Mullen* 2 1986   Lanny McDonald* 2 1986   Dirk Graham 2 1986   Glenn Anderson* 2 1986   Bob Brooke 2 1986   Gino Cavallini 2 1986   Mike McPhee 2 1987   Claude Lemieux 2 1988   John MacLean 2 1988   Steve Thomas 2 1989   Ryan Walter 2 1989   Glenn Anderson* 2 1990   Geoff Courtnall 2 1990   Garry Galley 2 1990   Tony Granato 2 1990   Craig Janney 2 1990   Mark Lamb 2 1990   Steve Larmer 2 1990   Joe Murphy 2 1990   Cam Neely* 2 1990   Dave Poulin 2 1990   Duane Sutter 2 1989   Paul Reinhart 2 1989   Cam Neely* 2 1988   Stephane Richer 2 1988   John Tucker 2 1988   Keith Acton 2 1988   Tim Hunter 2 1988   Chris Chelios 2 1989   Shayne Corson 2 1989   Russ Courtnall 2 1989   Brett Hull* 2 1989   Steve Larmer 2 1989   Cam Neely* 2 1989   Dave Poulin 2 1989   Brian Propp 2 1990

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