The latest four-goal comebacks in NHL history.

“Rally began” means the clock on the goal that cut the deficit from four to three. The team must then have tied the game before regulation ended. A larger deficit earlier in the game still counts.

Scores put the comeback team first. On a small screen, scroll the table sideways to see every column.

Shorter bars mean less time remaining. All bars use the same 10-minute scale. Playoff games were included in the search; all five leaders happened in the regular season.

Winnipeg was still scoreless when Tyrel Bauer began the rally. Morgan Barron followed, then Kyle Connor scored twice to make it 4–4. These are the times remaining in the third period; scores are Winnipeg–Montreal.

1. 2:39Tyrel Bauer1–4
2. 1:57Morgan Barron2–4
3. 1:00Kyle Connor3–4
4. 0:33Kyle Connor4–4

Overtime Dylan Samberg scores at 3:30. Winnipeg wins 5–4. [1]

The distinction between latest and fastest matters: 2:39 is how much regulation time remained when the rally started; 2:06 is the time between Winnipeg’s first and fourth goals. This ranking measures how late a team was still four goals behind.

Winnipeg began 3:38 later than Calgary’s 1989 rally, and 4:35 later than the previous winning comeback, Los Angeles against Dallas in 2007. The NHL’s widely reported record concerns comeback wins. Counting ties still leaves Winnipeg on top.

This ranking covers NHL regular-season and playoff games from 1917–18 through November 3, 2026. Preseason and exhibition games are excluded. Winning is not required: a team qualifies as soon as it erases the deficit during regulation, even if it later loses.

1. Find every possible late rally. Screen the NHL’s historical period-scoring records for teams with at least four third-period goals and a score that could have placed them four goals behind during that period.
2. Reconstruct the score. Check each goal in order. Record the latest goal that reduces a four-goal deficit to three, then confirm that the same team subsequently ties before regulation ends.
3. Rank by the clock. Convert that goal’s elapsed time into regulation time remaining, and sort from least to most. Count each team once per game.

The screen produced 322 candidate team-game sequences. All were checked, with scoring sequences reconciled to the NHL’s period totals. Historical season coverage and period-goal totals also reconciled. The resulting top five all began inside the final ten minutes, so earlier-period rallies cannot displace them.

This is Deep Hockey’s calculation from available NHL scoring records, including historical scoring summaries beyond our locally indexed play-by-play. It is a dated snapshot, not a live leaderboard.

The NHL scoring records provide the goal times used in the calculations. Box scores and reporting provide additional context.

1. Winnipeg at Montreal · November 3, 2026
   NHL scoring record (JSON) · NHL game recap
2. Calgary at Quebec · October 17, 1989
   NHL scoring record (JSON) · Hockey-Reference box score
3. Dallas at Los Angeles · November 10, 2007
   NHL scoring record (JSON) · Hockey-Reference box score
4. Buffalo at Pittsburgh · March 10, 1976
   NHL scoring record (JSON) · Sabres historical notes (PDF)
5. Philadelphia at New Jersey · November 6, 1986
   NHL scoring record (JSON) · Hockey-Reference box score

Historical screen: NHL regular-season period-scoring data (JSON) and playoff period-scoring data (JSON). Source endpoints may update; the article’s cutoff is November 3, 2026.