NHL Player Leaders

The league's leaders, each board with its minimum stated.

Who leads the league in scoring, ice time and goaltending — and, from our own model, which skaters tilt the ice most at five-on-five?

2026-27 seasonregular season

Leaders inPointsGoalsAssistsShotsTime on ice5-on-5 impact (ours)

Goalstop 50 of 563 · at least 1 game

Evan Bouchard (EDM) leads at 4, 1 clear of Paul Cotter, among the 563 players with at least 1 game.

Goals, all situations. Players with fewer than 1 game are left off: 30% of the most games anyone has played this season.

#	Player	Pos	GP	P	G
1	Evan Bouchard	D	2	8	4
2	Paul Cotter	L	2	4	3
3	Vasily Podkolzin	R	2	4	3
4	Marco Rossi	C	2	4	3
5	Eeli Tolvanen	R	3	2	2
6	Leon Draisaitl	C	2	4	2
7	William Nylander	R	2	2	2
8	Elias Pettersson	C	2	4	2
9	Eetu Luostarinen	C	2	2	2
10	JJ Peterka	R	2	2	2
11	Artturi Lehkonen	L	1	2	2
12	Nathan MacKinnon	C	1	2	2
13	Alex Tuch	R	1	2	2
14	Nick Robertson	L	1	2	2
15	Dylan Guenther	R	1	2	2
16	Matthew Knies	L	1	3	2
17	Will Smith	C	1	3	2
18	Mika Zibanejad	C	3	2	1
19	Sean Durzi	D	3	1	1
20	Pavel Dorofeyev	R	3	2	1
21	Gabe Perreault	R	3	2	1
22	Patrick Kane	R	2	1	1
23	Mark Stone	R	2	1	1
24	Jamie Oleksiak	D	2	3	1
25	Hampus Lindholm	D	2	2	1
26	Tomas Hertl	C	2	1	1
27	Colton Sissons	C	2	1	1
28	Shea Theodore	D	2	3	1
29	Elias Lindholm	C	2	2	1
30	Rasmus Ristolainen	D	2	1	1
31	Travis Sanheim	D	2	2	1
32	Kasperi Kapanen	R	2	2	1
33	Victor Olofsson	L	2	2	1
34	Noah Hanifin	D	2	1	1
35	Connor McDavid	C	2	7	1
36	Jack Eichel	C	2	5	1
37	Jordan Greenway	L	2	1	1
38	Sebastian Aho	C	2	1	1
39	Brock Boeser	R	2	3	1
40	Ryan Shea	D	2	2	1
41	Matthew Tkachuk	L	2	1	1
42	Trent Frederic	C	2	1	1
43	Mark Kastelic	C	2	2	1
44	Logan Stankoven	C	2	1	1
45	Arshdeep Bains	L	2	2	1
46	Jonathan Lekkerimaki	R	2	2	1
47	Fraser Minten	C	2	2	1
48	Braeden Bowman	R	2	1	1
49	Max Sasson	C	2	2	1
50	Easton Cowan	R	2	3	1

How this is measured

Scoring, ice time and goaltending numbers are the NHL's own regular-season totals for 2026-27. A player traded during the season is counted once, with the crest of his last club.

5-on-5 impact is ours. Our lineup model splits every five-on-five shift into who was on the ice and the expected goals each side created, and solves for each skater's effect on both, with linemates, opponents, home ice and the score accounted for. The number is expected goals for minus against per 60 minutes that his presence adds. It is not the player's own expected goals — we do not publish a per-shooter number — and it cannot see the power play, the penalty kill, or anything that happens away from the puck and never becomes a shot. More →