NHL & WHA Yearly Playoff Leaders and Records for Goals Created Per Game

Active players are listed in bold.
Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame are marked with an asterisk (*).

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NHL Leaders

NHL Leaders Table
Year Player GC/G
2026 Mitch Marner 0.535
2025 Leon Draisaitl 0.540
2024 Valeri Nichushkin 0.635
2023 Leon Draisaitl 0.703
2022 Connor McDavid 0.724
2021 Nathan MacKinnon 0.606
2020 Nathan MacKinnon 0.614
2019 Mikko Rantanen 0.455
2018 Jake Guentzel 0.695
2017 Leon Draisaitl 0.464
2016 Nikita Kucherov 0.489
2015 Corey Perry 0.474
2014 Ryan Getzlaf 0.428
2013 David Krejčí 0.427
2012 Claude Giroux 0.670
2011 Pavel Datsyuk* 0.457
2010 Johan Franzén 0.536
2009 Alex Ovechkin 0.622
2008 Jaromír Jágr 0.526
2007 Michael Nylander 0.505
2006 Patrik Eliáš 0.646
2004 Joe Sakic* 0.458
2003 Martin St. Louis* 0.458
2002 Peter Forsberg* 0.483
2001 Joe Sakic* 0.496
2000 Jaromír Jágr 0.578
1999 Steve Yzerman* 0.583
1998 Steve Yzerman* 0.369
  Sergei Fedorov* 0.369
1997 Claude Lemieux 0.576
1996 Joe Sakic* 0.645
1995 Theo Fleury 0.816
1994 Pavel Bure* 0.539
1993 Dale Hawerchuk* 0.646
1992 Mario Lemieux* 0.893
1991 Mario Lemieux* 0.697
1990 Brett Hull* 0.779
1989 Mario Lemieux* 0.765
1988 Wayne Gretzky* 0.780
1987 Glenn Anderson* 0.533
1986 Wayne Gretzky* 0.723
1985 Wayne Gretzky* 0.970
1984 Wayne Gretzky* 0.692
1983 Wayne Gretzky* 0.868
1982 Joe Mullen* 0.684
1981 Wayne Gretzky* 0.850
1980 Gilbert Perreault* 0.614
1979 Jacques Lemaire* 0.588
1978 Guy Lafleur* 0.579
1977 Lanny McDonald* 0.826
1976 Reggie Leach 0.748
1975 Guy Lafleur* 0.779
1974 Rick MacLeish 0.562
1973 Yvan Cournoyer* 0.661
1972 Phil Esposito* 0.595
1971 Frank Mahovlich* 0.576
1970 Phil Esposito* 0.781
1969 Phil Esposito* 0.714
1968 Bill Goldsworthy 0.461
1967 Jim Pappin 0.505
1966 Norm Ullman* 0.474
1965 Bobby Hull* 0.535
1964 Gordie Howe* 0.549
1963 Gordie Howe* 0.584
1962 Stan Mikita* 0.606
1961 Gordie Howe* 0.475
1959 Marcel Bonin 0.614
1958 Maurice Richard* 0.700
1957 Bernie Geoffrion* 0.802
1956 Jean Béliveau* 0.856
1955 Gordie Howe* 0.748
1953 Ed Sandford 0.489
1951 Maurice Richard* 0.581
1950 Pentti Lund 0.419
1949 Gordie Howe* 0.527
1948 Ted Kennedy* 0.709
1947 Maurice Richard* 0.521
1946 Elmer Lach* 0.777
1945 Joe Carveth 0.369
1944 Maurice Richard* 0.908
1943 Carl Liscombe 0.596
1942 Don Grosso 0.498
1939 Gordie Drillon* 0.564
1936 Buzz Boll 0.592
1933 Cecil Dillon 0.718
1931 Cooney Weiland* 1.086
1928 Frank Boucher* 0.756
1919 Newsy Lalonde* 1.984