- Who
- Mats Sundin, David Legwand, Alex Ovechkin, Andreas Athanasiou, William Nylander
- What
- 6 second(s)
- Where
- Not Applicable ()
- When
The fastest overtime goal scored in an NHL match is 6 seconds, achieved by five players: Mats Sundin (SWE) on 30 December 1995, David Legwand (USA) on 9 March 2006, Alex Ovechkin (Russian Federation) on 15 December 2006, Andreas Athanasiou (Canada) on 3 January 2018 and William Nylander (Sweden, b. Canada) on 24 January 2018.
Since the 2015–16 season, overtime has been contested by teams reduced to three skaters per side.