Entering the 2025-26 season, Gourde has scored 133 goals and 214 assists for 347 points in 602 career NHL regular season games. His 201 career points with the Lightning are two points shy of tying Teddy Purcell to enter the franchise’s top 20 all-time in career scoring. He holds the fifth-most points among the NHL's active undrafted players.

If there’s one player who believes the Lightning aren’t far from returning to the mountaintop, it’s Yanni Gourde. In fact, the 33-year-old forward is banking that he’ll be able to make another celebratory moving-cart ride through the rain to christen yet another Stanley Cup championship.

When Yanni Gourde walked into Amalie Arena just 24 hours after being traded at the NHL Trade Deadline, he seemed to have picked up right where he left off. Gourde started his first media availability with the same openness he had a few years back,