Picking him over Seth Jones already cost them one cup in my opinion. It was the wrong player given what was on the board.
I will remain unchanged by that. You could have deployed Jones, Hedman and Stralman on ice for virtually the entire game.
Hedman and Jones would have been as lethal as Niedermayer and Pronger, Vladdy and Lidstrom. It had a mega wattage potential in terms of two #1's that can play together sometimes but anchor a pairing when apart and distribute the ice time to suffocating the other team for the entire game.
The bigger one with Yzerman and Drouin was he handled the rocky part of the relationship really well from and organizational perspective. That isn't all that surprising though, if there is one thing we know after all these years it is don't cross Yzerman. The guy wins all of those, sometimes immediately and sometimes eventually. Wouldn't be surprised at all if Drouin is now peddled for his worth, now that it is appropriately back up. People that feuded with Yzerman in Detroit all were shipped or lost significant power for doing it, Fedorov being the notable exception that took a long time. That seems to have carried on to Tampa as well, don't want to listen Downey you're gone, MSL here your ticket out whiner...