Believe it or not, both these statements are true. Drouin is supposed to be part of our primary offence, which means he needs to score and/or directly set up goals. On the surface, 11 pts is good, but his contributions have mostly been secondary and passive. And no matter how you parse it, one goal isn't nearly enough.
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i have seen on this forum a fan (one of the same group that are on the back of Drouin and Danault) accusing Ribiero for a Habs defeat. It was the same kind of narrative, the player played this and that wrong way...In fact, that game, Ribiero didn't play at all. He was out that night, but the accusations were still there, and it was because of him that the Habs lost the game.
Your defence of Drouin & Danault would carry more weight if they'd scored more than one goal combined. As of today, they deserve to be criticized.
Hey, I can certainly appreciate we can watch the same game, and see different things. Opinions are just that....I am not seeing him playing well early in the season at this point.
Overall, I agree that as long as the team wins I don't care about individual players. But like you said, we need everyone playing up to their capacity when games are close and for the playoffs. That's when chronic underperformance is unacceptable. Unfortunately, a few of our regulars are in that category.
Then where are all those critics of KK ; he also just score one goal ? you are so funny
He's not invisible, you don't see him because you're blind
Kotkaniemi has plenty of critics. He's also 20. Drouin/Danault are well into their prime.
When i was playing hockey. Coaching staff were saying an assist is as much valuable than a goal. When martin st-louis was playing minor hockey. His father gave him 5cents every time he had an assist. No cent when he made a goal. He said. He was all the time trying to make a pass, and his fun was to producing his worst line mate. So yyour affirmation about he doesnt score is irrelvelant imo, as long Drouin is able to producing overall. I dont care if he ends up the season with 6 goals and 40 assists on 56 games
I agree but I don't expect Toffoli,Anderson or Gallagher to end up with 40 goals each. They gotta produce a bit more.
There's a huge gap between criticism and hating. I'm pointing out facts without adding any personal editorial. Drouin gets credit for improving his two-way game, however 1 goal won't cut it for a forward playing middle-six minutes and being paid 1st-line dollars. 10 assists is good, if he keeps up that pace I'll revisit my opinion, but Drouin has built a reputation for underperforming. The onus is him to change that perception, not on fans to give him unlimited rope.
