5 Records New Jersey Devils Could Still Break This Season

2. Nico Hischier – Game-Winning Goals

Game-winning goals aren’t the end all be all we once expected. Not every game-winning goal is treated the same. An overtime goal comes at 3v3. Some game-winning goals come in a 7-1 blowout. Others come with a first-period goal in a 2-1 snoozer. Those goals are obviously not the same as a third-period goal that came with barely any time on the clock.

Still, it’s cool to see Nico Hischier coming up on the record for most game-winning goals in Devils history. It’s not an easy feat asking Hischier to score two game-winning goals in nine games. And that would only tie the record set by John MacLean in 1989-90.

Still, we’d be hard pressed not to add the captain to this list. Only MacLean and Brian Gionta (whose Devils franchise goals record appears to be safe) have more GWGs than Hischier has right now.

Hischier has some game-winners that probably aren’t very memorable. He scored the GWG against the Tampa Bay Lightning earlier this month. Nobody remembers that because Jesper Bratt scored a hat trick in that game. He also scored the overtime winner against the Arizona Coyotes. In November, Hischer had back-to-back games where he scored the game winner against Calgary with nine minutes left, then had an overtime winner against the Ottawa Senators. If Hischier can get hot again, he could at least tie MacLean’s record.