Posts About "Yanni Gourde"
Lightning: Will Gourde Continue to Evolve His Game?
September 30th, 2019 Few players in the NHL will experience a career trajectory quite like that of Yanni Gourde. After going undrafted, he led the QMJHL scoring race during the 2011-12 season, bounced around the San Jose Sharks' ECHL and AHL affiliates for a few seasons before finding a home with the Tampa Bay Lightning. While it took a few years for him...
Lightning: Worst Contracts for the 2019-20 Season
August 17th, 2019 As the Tampa Bay Lightning developed a core of highly talented players over the course of the last decade, they consistently found ways to keep these stars around. By signing players to long-term contracts, they were often able to trade immediate cap hit for security, avoiding overpaying for their core. This has created a somewhat...
Devils Need to Add a Top-Six Winger
July 6th, 2019 The New Jersey Devils addressed some big-time needs this offseason. They acquired a top-four defenseman in P.K. Subban and added center Jack Hughes through the Entry Draft. They also signed unrestricted free agent (UFA) right winger Wayne Simmonds, who'll add some physicality to the lineup, to a one-year deal worth $5 million. Wayne...
Gourde Signing Is High Risk, High Reward for Lightning
November 6th, 2018 Yanni Gourde has a unique story. After putting up 124 points in junior, he didn't have the impact people expected. He nearly gave up professional hockey but decided to give it one more shot with the Kalamazoo Wings of the ECHL. From there, Gourde was promoted to the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL and now, in his second full...
NHL News & Notes: Gourde, Tkachuk & More
November 2nd, 2018 In today's News & Notes, Yanni Gourde has signed a big contract extension, Brady Tkachuk is approaching a return and both Alex Formenton and Evan Bouchard have been returned to the London Knights of the OHL. Related: NHL News & Notes: Ryan Donato, Jesse Puljujarvi & More Gourde Signs Contract Extension The Tampa Bay...
Gourde Signs Contract Extension With Lightning
November 2nd, 2018 The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed forward Yanni Gourde to a six-year contract extension worth $31 million, the team announced Friday. Gourde is in the second year of a two-year deal that he signed with the team in 2017. He'll be seeing a sizeable increase in annual salary as his current deal pays him $1 million per season while his new...
Lightning's Contract Conundrum With Gourde
October 22nd, 2018 In the quest to capture the Stanley Cup, every team will inevitably bleed talent as they attempt to retain franchise faces while staying under the leagues' hard cap ceiling. If handled improperly, a franchise can be forced to trade a keystone player for pennies on the dollar or get nothing out of one of their former stars...
How Deep Are The Lightning?
September 22nd, 2018 The Tampa Bay Lightning have become one of the NHL's best teams over the last five seasons. Sure, it helps to have generational players like Steven Stamkos, Nikita Kucherov and Victor Hedman, but there is more that goes into a deep playoff run than three players. The Bolts dropped their first two preseason games — both to the Carolina...
Lightning Need to Solve Scoring Slump
March 30th, 2018 There's no doubt that the Tampa Bay Lightning have been an offensive juggernaut throughout the 2017-18 season. With a team that features scoring superstars like Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos, it felt like they could score at will. Not only are the Lightning ranked first overall in goals for per game and goals scored, they have done...
These QMJHL Overagers Deserve Deals
March 28th, 2018 Each season there are countless overage players skating in their final year of Quebec Major Junior Hockey League eligibility while doing everything they can to catch the attention of an NHL franchise. These players want to show scouts that they were overlooked during their draft years and deserve an opportunity to play...
The 2018 Calder Trophy Race
March 10th, 2018 The 2018 Calder Memorial Trophy race has a much different feel to it compared to the last few seasons. In 2016 and 2017, there were generational players making their career debuts who dominated the Calder conversation. This season, however, there is a crop of high-talent rookies who can all make a serious case to win the Calder. No one...
History Says Yzerman Will Sell at Deadline
January 24th, 2018 Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman is known to be a shrewd businessman when it comes to making trades. Part of how he has turned Tampa Bay into a contender is by making smart trades that benefit the team in the long term rather than for short-term gain. Since taking over as GM in 2010, Yzerman has rarely parted with future assets...
Tampa Bay Lightning's New Secret Weapon
January 12th, 2018 Once upon a time, a small, undrafted player signed with the Tampa Bay Lightning and went on to play in the NHL. Sound familiar? It's happened a few times with the Lightning organization. See: Tyler Johnson, Cory Conacher, Jonathan Marchessault, and some guy named Martin St. Louis. Yanni Gourde is another one of those diamonds in the...
