from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

Jake Guentzel looks like the kid next door, only younger.

He can’t grow a playoff beard. “Terrible,” his father Mike calls it. “Just terrible.”

What he can do is score.

He scored on his first NHL shift.

He scored in his first Stanley Cup playoff game.

He scored the winning goal in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final and the first two goals, including the winner, in Game 2 of the final.

He scored, impressively, when he played with the great Sidney Crosby. And more impressively, he has scored playing away from Crosby in the Stanley Cup playoffs. On Wednesday night, Guentzel scored his 11th and 12th goal of the playoffs, two away from Dino Ciccarelli’s rookie record of 14 from 1981: The game winner in Game 2 was his fifth of this playoff season. No rookie has ever done that before.

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