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Jonathan Drouin Is PPG

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Danarqhy said:
This dude was supposed to be out of the league not that long ago. He was labeled as lazy, terrible defensively, weak physically and super fragile mentally. His team even went to the Stanley Cup finals while he was rehabbing whatever he was rehabbing that year.

He then gets reunited with his BFF Nathan MacKinnon who probably put him on the chickpea pasta diet in Colorado and is now taking off like he has a rocket strapped to his bumhole, playing probably the best hockey of his NHL career. And he's doing all of this as he's about to turn 30.

Crazy turnaround for a player that was basically worth less than nothing not that long ago.
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The talent was always there. He just was a mutt on the effort scale especially playing 2 way hockey. Moving to center was always a really bad strategy too. For his sake I hope he figured it out.
 
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dirtydanglez said:
lehky went from bottom 6 to top 6 with colorado. drouin was expected to be something he wasn't in montreal, he's not a center and he's not the star player. he's a lot farther down the depth chart in colorado.
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Lehky played top 6 in our 2021 playoff run.

He was good here too. Avs had a much better team to insulate him in
 
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Frank Drebin said:
well I would love to see that for the avs but not likely to happen
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I dunno.... There's a pretty good argument to be made tbh. Rantanen is proving this year he cant carry a line on his own and on the flip side Mackinnon has proven he can produce pretty much no matter who's next to him.


Really hard to believe Rantanen is actually a $14M player and the Avs could do a lot of good things to their depth if they spread that money out just a little bit.


I ultimately dont think it will happen, I bet the Avs sign Mikko(Though I really hope its for $12.5M or less, I'd hate to give him $13M+ honestly)... But I also definitely think there's some solid merit to letting him walk. Plenty of people criticized Tampa for letting Stamkos walk and they look incredibly smart now to do so and go after Guentzel instead.
 
He's been a PPG since last January for those not paying attention. He's also one of the Avs most complete and consistent forwards, being sound defensively and always making smart plays.

Agreed he's always had it in him, and it's nice to see it come to fruition. Hope for his sake he is able to stay healthy more consistently, but I'm not complaining if it saves the Avs some $$ on a long term extension
 
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Danarqhy said:
This dude was supposed to be out of the league not that long ago. He was labeled as lazy, terrible defensively, weak physically and super fragile mentally. His team even went to the Stanley Cup finals while he was rehabbing whatever he was rehabbing that year.

He then gets reunited with his BFF Nathan MacKinnon who probably put him on the chickpea pasta diet in Colorado and is now taking off like he has a rocket strapped to his bumhole, playing probably the best hockey of his NHL career. And he's doing all of this as he's about to turn 30.

Crazy turnaround for a player that was basically worth less than nothing not that long ago.
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Only 14 games into the season. Could have sworn that his team had played 47
 
A strong 14-game sample isn't unusual for Drouin. A strong full season is. He's been great for short bursts, then something happens. Until proven otherwise, expect another 'something' to derail his season and/or playoffs.
 
Lshap said:
A strong 14-game sample isn't unusual for Drouin. A strong full season is. He's been great for short bursts, then something happens. Until proven otherwise, expect another 'something' to derail his season and/or playoffs.
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He’s been strong for about a full season’s worth of games for the Avs. Not 14 games. This idea of ‘something’ being anything other than injuries is clearly a veiled and outdated poke at his attitude or consistency or mindset during his time in Montreal. I mean the injuries are a concern - but you can just explicitly state ‘injury proneness’.

I don’t think Avs fans can stress enough how much better the team is when he’s in the line-up. Keeping him upright and healthy has been the issue. Certainly everything beyond that has been extremely positive. Him being healthy and in the line-up is absolutely critical to any chance the Avs have of going on a run this Spring.
 
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BKarchitect said:
He’s been strong for about a full season’s worth of games for the Avs. Not 14 games. This idea of ‘something’ being anything other than injuries is clearly a veiled and outdated poke at his attitude or consistency or mindset during his time in Montreal. I mean the injuries are a concern - but you can just explicitly state ‘injury proneness’.

I don’t think Avs fans can stress enough how much better the team is when he’s in the line-up. Keeping him upright and healthy has been the issue. Certainly everything beyond that has been extremely positive. Him being healthy and in the line-up is absolutely critical to any chance the Avs have of going on a run this Spring.
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FYI: The "Something" I referred to was the unknown issue Drouin faced three years ago. Not an injury, it was psychological and serious enough to keep him out of the lineup for months, but since it remains undisclosed I won't speculate. I wish him success, but he's dealt with more than run of the mill injuries.
 
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BKarchitect said:
He's got 76 points in 93 games in an Avs sweater...agreed that too early for "PPG talk" but he's a legit 65-70 point offensive creator who actually competes hard in all zones in a non-small sample size in Denver.
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This is so cool as I won’t lie I didn’t even realize he was still playing hockey 🤣

RoyIsALegend said:
Since his healthy scratch last season:

41 P in 37 GP last season
3 P in 3 GP in playoffs
14 P in 14 GP this year
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Shows what type of talent he is that he can go that long being considered a write off then start to turn it around at 30.
 
a mangy Meowth said:
It's honestly pathetic the way so many habs fans act towards this player who is so clearly loved by his teammates on the Avs. Glad he got out of that swamp
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he was with our team for 5 years. He was loved and respected in the community from what I could tell. Not a player our team could count on. At all.
 
Oryxo said:
His main problem, even in his final seasons in Montreal, is that he can't stay healthy.
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He hasn't been the same player since being run over by ovheckin and breaking his wrist a few years back.

He had to reinvent himself a little bit after that because his shot was noticeably weaker, but yeah, the injuries never really went away.
 
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