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Montreal Canadiens: Matchups were a problem for Jonathan Drouin

Fansided | July 9, 2018

Related Topics: Montreal Canadiens, Nathan MacKinnon, Aleš Hemský, Jonathan Drouin

There were several questions to be answered in the ‘Jonathan Drouin at centre’ experiment for the Montreal Canadiens.

  1. Can he do it?
  2. Can he do it well?
  3. Can it last?

When a player is stepping into the centre position for the first time in the NHL, the coaching staff tends to shelter them a little bit. A quick example is Nathan MacKinnon, who didn’t play centre full-time until the 2016-17 season. His first two years in the NHL saw him on the wing with the likes of Paul Stastny, Ryan O’Reilly, and Matt Duchene.

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