who has scored the most first goals in the nhl this season

Nathan MacKinnon and Morgan Geekie are tied for the most goals this season, with 17 scored.

	NAME	G	SEASON	TM	GP	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Nathan MacKinnon N. MacKinnon	17	2025-26	COL	22	20	37	+23	12	5	4	0	0	2	0	94	18.1	228	470	48.5	18	16	5	34	21:45
2	Morgan Geekie M. Geekie	17	2025-26	BOS	24	6	23	-7	8	4	3	0	0	2	1	65	26.2	37	86	43.0	44	10	6	15	17:43
3	Leon Draisaitl L. Draisaitl	14	2025-26	EDM	24	14	28	+6	6	7	5	1	0	1	1	59	23.7	219	385	56.9	13	7	9	39	22:30
4	Bo Horvat B. Horvat	14	2025-26	NYI	23	11	25	+13	20	3	5	1	0	3	0	79	17.7	246	416	59.1	14	6	5	26	20:23
5	Macklin Celebrini M. Celebrini	14	2025-26	SJS	23	20	34	+5	12	4	8	0	0	3	2	67	20.9	174	357	48.7	13	16	10	35	20:32
6	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	13	2025-26	PIT	21	10	23	-3	24	6	2	0	0	1	0	46	28.3	227	424	53.5	17	11	7	23	19:10
7	Dylan Larkin D. Larkin	13	2025-26	DET	23	12	25	+11	22	3	2	0	0	3	1	78	16.7	269	476	56.5	9	10	4	21	20:42
8	Brad Marchand B. Marchand	13	2025-26	FLA	21	12	25	-6	18	2	6	0	0	1	0	60	21.7	1	5	20.0	15	8	5	21	18:11
9	Sam Reinhart S. Reinhart	13	2025-26	FLA	22	8	21	-8	2	4	4	1	0	5	0	63	20.6	22	68	32.4	21	18	5	19	21:03
10	Kirill Kaprizov K. Kaprizov	13	2025-26	MIN	23	14	27	+1	6	6	4	0	0	1	1	77	16.9	0	1	0.0	8	9	5	33	22:10
11	Martin Necas M. Necas	13	2025-26	COL	22	15	28	+19	16	3	4	0	0	0	0	46	28.3	7	13	53.8	22	8	5	45	21:06
12	Jason Robertson J. Robertson	13	2025-26	DAL	22	15	28	+9	2	4	7	0	0	1	0	96	13.5	0	1	0.0	15	11	11	34	20:21
13	Matt Boldy M. Boldy	13	2025-26	MIN	23	12	25	+3	12	5	6	1	0	2	0	75	17.3	13	33	39.4	14	14	6	26	21:04
14	Cole Caufield C. Caufield	13	2025-26	MTL	21	9	22	+9	8	1	5	0	0	3	3	59	22.0	2	5	40.0	18	5	9	16	18:29
15	Logan Cooley L. Cooley	13	2025-26	UTA	23	8	21	+5	20	3	1	1	0	1	0	48	27.1	110	273	40.3	24	10	9	29	18:34
16	Cutter Gauthier C. Gauthier	13	2025-26	ANA	22	13	26	+13	12	3	2	0	0	2	1	97	13.4	14	34	41.2	17	8	7	20	17:58
17	Connor Bedard C. Bedard	13	2025-26	CHI	22	18	31	+9	22	4	6	0	0	2	0	72	18.1	106	211	50.2	7	12	11	29	21:07
18	Jake Guentzel J. Guentzel	12	2025-26	TBL	22	10	22	+4	6	3	3	1	0	2	1	64	18.8	56	104	53.8	10	13	8	17	20:45
19	John Tavares J. Tavares	12	2025-26	TOR	22	15	27	+3	6	2	2	0	0	1	1	66	18.2	227	373	60.9	22	5	5	19	18:35
20	Tom Wilson T. Wilson	12	2025-26	WSH	23	11	23	+11	52	4	2	0	0	1	0	52	23.1	7	14	50.0	64	12	7	22	19:30
21	Tyler Bertuzzi T. Bertuzzi	12	2025-26	CHI	19	7	19	+2	22	6	4	0	0	1	0	44	27.3	20	39	51.3	20	1	4	19	18:04
22	Tage Thompson T. Thompson	12	2025-26	BUF	22	9	21	-3	10	2	3	0	0	0	0	85	14.1	98	197	49.7	29	11	11	23	18:55
23	Kiefer Sherwood K. Sherwood	12	2025-26	VAN	23	4	16	-5	16	3	2	1	0	1	1	42	28.6	5	15	33.3	98	12	8	25	17:44
24	Kyle Connor K. Connor	11	2025-26	WPG	21	14	25	+5	6	1	5	2	0	1	1	76	14.5	0	0		9	2	8	19	20:35
25	Alex DeBrincat A. DeBrincat	11	2025-26	DET	23	14	25	-2	4	6	3	0	0	2	1	88	12.5	4	10	40.0	11	8	8	23	18:00