Eventually, this is going to look hard for Jake Guentzel.
Right?
It certainly didn’t for most of last season, as he tore up the NHL with 16 goals in 40 regular season games and a league-high 13 in the playoffs.
But this year, Guentzel will add the challenge of trying to keep up that pace — or at least close to it — over the course of a grueling 82-game NHL schedule for the first time.
“You’ve got to show you can do it over a full season,” he said. “You don’t really want to have those slumps.