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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

Habsy said:
Drouin is still a sublime passer. Threads the pass smartly. I think he'll do ok there. He needed out of the spotlight and for under 900k? That's a lot of talent for that price.
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Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see how he does there. Seems like his time in Montreal was the perfect storm of pressure for a guy who was particularly ill-equipped to handle it.

Young, hometown Francophone player expected to be a star, immediately handed a big contract, traded for a young stud defenseman who almost immediately blossomed into a top pair guy.

Now he’s anonymous in an American city and on a cheap-O contract with zero pressure.
 
zeke said:
It's good for him to have some anti-leafs articles in his back pocket tho.
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It's not gonna look good when he comes back in September saying that the Leafs have improved. Easy fodder for the anti Leafs brigade to reference this article.
 
zeke said:
I figure they got Drou to reunite with Nate.

I doubt it works but i'm sure they'll try it. And maybe it does work ok given how good Nate and Rants are.
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I think Drouin is going to have a good year back with his buddy Nate and out of the Canadian media spotlight.
 
Drouin pulled an Agassi and admitted he hated playing hockey.....maybe his love gets re-kindled but I think it's a coin flip at best

still had a nice assist rate 5 on 5 last year....but he rarely shot the puck, and his SH% was sub 3.0 so that should triple
 
Preston said:
It's not gonna look good when he comes back in September saying that the Leafs have improved. Easy fodder for the anti Leafs brigade to reference this article.
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Eh he's screwed on the season preview either way. I'm guessing the Leafs come out #1 or #2 behind carolina.
 
Wayward DP said:
substance use issues vs. mental health issues?
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…also, as far as we’re aware, Drouin doesn’t hate black people, doesn’t have connections to the Russian mob and has no interest in the vivisection & murder of women & children.

Some definite points in his favour vs Gally.
 
Maybe.

Galy getting the 2nd line chance with us was a 15gl/40pt type at Even Strength alone. I don't know that Drouin could do any better.

Galy also has better career stats iirc.
 
I'm gonna pull a LOF here, but I got watch Drouin play a lot in junior, and the guy certainly had all the physical tools to succeed. so I think it will all depend on what's going on in his head.

and I do think getting out of Montreal will be really good for his head. but we'll see, he could be done.
 
Junior was a decade ago.

Since then he's played 485gms at a 10gl/31pt EV pace (with very cushy usage), with another 3gl/16pt PP pace on top of that (while getting plenty of PP time).
 
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