The first two seasons of Jonathan Drouin in a Montreal Canadiens jersey were mediocre. He’s been called everything up to and including “overpaid,” and though he certainly isn’t overpaid with his $5.5 million cap hit in today’s market, not all of the criticism was without merit. He wasn’t living up to his billing.
Though he put up respectable point totals, he often looked bad away from the puck, tried to do too much with it, and was at times a defensive liability. There were flashes of a brilliant hockey player, but fans of the Tricolore were left wanting much more out of him.