Overall, Jake Guentzel’s second season with the Tampa Bay Lightning was one of the best of his career. He set new career highs in multiple counting stats and was a consistent threat for Jon Cooper on a nightly basis.<\/p>\n
Games Played – 81 – Guentzel missed just a single game during the regular season. He surpassed the 80-game threshold for the fourth time in his career.<\/p>\n
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Goals – 38 – The second most on the Lightning, trailing just Nikita Kucherov. The fourth most goals in a season for Guentzel.<\/p>\n
Assists – 50 – Once again, the second most on the team trailing just Kucherov. A new career high for Guentzel.<\/p>\n
Points – 88 – Another career high, surpassed his previous career high of 84 points during the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n
Shots – 220 – Three more shots than the prior season, the fourth most in a season in Guentzel’s career.<\/p>\n
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Shooting Percentage – 17.3% – A 1.6% drop from the prior season, however still 1.4% higher than his career average.<\/p>\n
Time on Ice – 20:15 – He averaged 15 seconds more ice time per game than in his first season with the Bolts.<\/p>\n
Game-Winning Goals – 5 – He scored five game winners for the second straight season, the fourth most on the Lightning.<\/p>\n
Plus\/Minus – +13 – Tied for the third-highest tally in his career.<\/p>\n
Giveaways – 73 – Tied for the fifth-most giveaways on the Lightning, the second most of his career. Prior to joining the Lightning, his career-high was 48 and now he has surpassed the 70-giveaway threshold twice.<\/p>\n
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Takeaways – 23 – The fourth-most takeaways for the Bolts, the lowest takeaways-per-60 rate of his career.<\/p>\n
Goals – 2 – One of only three players to score multiple goals in the Lightning’s playoff run. Tied for second on the team trailing Brandon Hagel who scored six times.<\/p>\n
Assists – 6 – Led the team.<\/p>\n
Points – 8 – Tied for the team lead with the aforementioned Hagel.<\/p>\n
Hardest Shot – 83.05 MPH – Guentzel’s hardest shot during the season was roughly half a mile per hour slower than the league average.<\/p>\n
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Max Skating Speed – 22.26 MPH – Guentzel’s max speed was just over league average, as he placed in the 51st percentile.<\/p>\n
Total Miles Skated – 252.15 – Over the course of the 2025-26 season, Guentzel covered more ice than almost anyone. He ranked in the 96th percentile.<\/p>\n
The 2025-26 season was certainly one to remember for Jake Guentzel. He found ways to contribute on a nightly basis while setting career highs in assists and points. Even more importantly, he was one of the Bolts’ top performers in the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overall, Jake Guentzel’s second season with the Tampa Bay Lightning was one of the best of his career.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[97,13918,5,1331,189,4,1335,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":["post-576035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-brandon-hagel","tag-career-highs","tag-hockey","tag-jake-guentzel","tag-lightning","tag-nhl","tag-nikita-kucherov","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaylightning"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116582001132244374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}