Jake Guentzel's difficult to decipher, certainly on the surface. As Zach Aston-Reese would word it for me late Wednesday night at PPG Paints Arena, "He's just so low-key. Like, you know what I mean?"
I did, but I'd hoped to hear more.
"Like, you don't really know. You see him off the ice, and he could a computer science major at Carnegie Mellon, for all you'd know."
Oh, man.
Turning serious, Aston-Reese added, "Really, you look at how tough he is, what he plays through ... he takes a beating, and nothing puts him out.