JAKE GUENTZEL - Left Winger - 24 - $6MM Cap Hit - UFA in 2024-2025
LAST UPDATED 8/20/19
After a strong three seasons in the NCAA and a great professional debut in the AHL, Jake Guentzel was promoted in the 2016-17 seasons, and he immediately fit with 1C Sidney Crosby, who helped Guentzel have one of the greatest rookie playoff campaigns in NHL history. Guentzel didn't follow up that playoffs with the most impressive season, but the tools were always there and in this past season Guentzel finally exploded and became the winger we all thought he could be. Guentzel isn't the biggest winger, but he has a ton of skill. He can burn slower defenders on the rush, deke past them thanks to his soft hands, or simply pick off a corner of the net from the top of the circle with his absolutely lethal shot. Guentzel is an elite shooter with perennial 40 goal upside playing with a good playmaking center like Crosby. Guentzel isn't a play-driving playmaker, but he isn't totally dependent on strong linemates and has the intelligence, speed, and skill to create by himself. He won't create as much, but it speaks to his skill that he'd still survive. Defensively, Guentzel is too offensively aggressive to be able to make a real impact, and given his size and desire to generate offense on every shift, he's a defensive liability. But that's fine, because he scores as much as he does and he plays with a defensive machine in Sidney Crosby. Alone, Guentzel is probably just a 30 goal, 20 assist winger who struggles to score as much as he probably could because his shot tool is so far ahead of everything else he has, but with a playmaking center, especially with one like Crosby, Guentzel becomes a true first-line sniper with the capability to score 40 goals with consistency.
After a strong three seasons in the NCAA and a great professional debut in the AHL, Jake Guentzel was promoted in the 2016-17 seasons, and he immediately fit with 1C Sidney Crosby, who helped Guentzel have one of the greatest rookie playoff campaigns in NHL history. Guentzel didn't follow up that playoffs with the most impressive season, but the tools were always there and in this past season Guentzel finally exploded and became the winger we all thought he could be. Guentzel isn't the biggest winger, but he has a ton of skill. He can burn slower defenders on the rush, deke past them thanks to his soft hands, or simply pick off a corner of the net from the top of the circle with his absolutely lethal shot. Guentzel is an elite shooter with perennial 40 goal upside playing with a good playmaking center like Crosby. Guentzel isn't a play-driving playmaker, but he isn't totally dependent on strong linemates and has the intelligence, speed, and skill to create by himself. He won't create as much, but it speaks to his skill that he'd still survive. Defensively, Guentzel is too offensively aggressive to be able to make a real impact, and given his size and desire to generate offense on every shift, he's a defensive liability. But that's fine, because he scores as much as he does and he plays with a defensive machine in Sidney Crosby. Alone, Guentzel is probably just a 30 goal, 20 assist winger who struggles to score as much as he probably could because his shot tool is so far ahead of everything else he has, but with a playmaking center, especially with one like Crosby, Guentzel becomes a true first-line sniper with the capability to score 40 goals with consistency.
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