One of the last guys you'd ever want to take ANY advice from tbh but he's kinda right.
The Official Jonathan Drouin Thread - Part 4
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One of the last guys you'd ever want to take ANY advice from tbh but he's kinda right.
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I really hope he can just suck it up and get back to Syracuse. I feel like the problem with that is that if he goes back there's the risk of getting injured and not getting traded at all. However if he doesn't play, his value is going to go down even more which decreases the chances of him getting traded as well. That said he could go to Syracuse and play very cautiously trying to avoid getting injured, but if he goes ahead and plays 20 games without scoring points it's going to hurt his value just as much if not even more than just not playing.
The best case scenario would be for him to just suck it up, get to Syracuse, play as well as he can and just hope for the best in terms of not getting injured. It's pretty obvious that the last time he was in Syracuse he didn't really give a **** and just played not to get injured while waiting for a trade. I do think that if he's giving it all he's got he would be putting up multi point games pretty much every game. If that happened I could even see us going as far as bringing him back up especially when someone inevitably goes down with an injury.
Just sucking it up and playing is pretty much what he has to do in order to make sure that he'll get traded. If he sits out for the rest of the season I really doubt many GMs will offer Yzerman anything even remotely close to what he wants even in the offseason. I do think that there is still a chance (admittedly a very small chance, but still a chance) of him staying with us. It's been cleared in the past that both the NHL and the AHL team would be willing to welcome him back to the roster any time which is why it's all up to himself. With Stamkos almost certainly leaving we're one star offensive player short next season so he'd definitely have room in our team. The only question is, is he willing to suck it up or is his ego too big for his own good.
The best case scenario would be for him to just suck it up, get to Syracuse, play as well as he can and just hope for the best in terms of not getting injured. It's pretty obvious that the last time he was in Syracuse he didn't really give a **** and just played not to get injured while waiting for a trade. I do think that if he's giving it all he's got he would be putting up multi point games pretty much every game. If that happened I could even see us going as far as bringing him back up especially when someone inevitably goes down with an injury.
Just sucking it up and playing is pretty much what he has to do in order to make sure that he'll get traded. If he sits out for the rest of the season I really doubt many GMs will offer Yzerman anything even remotely close to what he wants even in the offseason. I do think that there is still a chance (admittedly a very small chance, but still a chance) of him staying with us. It's been cleared in the past that both the NHL and the AHL team would be willing to welcome him back to the roster any time which is why it's all up to himself. With Stamkos almost certainly leaving we're one star offensive player short next season so he'd definitely have room in our team. The only question is, is he willing to suck it up or is his ego too big for his own good.
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Drouin should just own up to his mistake and go back and play. Stop being a brat, be the superstar you can be!!
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Hopefully the lure of joining a playoff team is enough for him to return. It seems like a no brainer to me. Watch playoff hockey from your house or try to earn an opportunity as a black ace? Some players go their whole life without sniffing the cup, so why not try your hardest to get back on a team that could go the distance? There's no guarantees, but if I were him, I'd do everything I could in Syracuse to put myself in a situation that could get myself back in the lineup. Work your way to the top of the list. Things can change fast in the playoffs. Injuries happen, coaches change things up...never say never. Blair Jones probably never thought he'd make it into the 2011 ECFs or JAM last year.
Never burn your bridges, Jo.
Never burn your bridges, Jo.
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What mistake is that ?
It was Yzerman's mistake telling Drouin he was close to being traded while playing in the AHL. Even though he shouldn't have been sent to the AHL in the first place he was still playing games until he was told a trade was close
Yzerman said that he never told him he was close to being trade. Yzerman would have had no reason to say that and notoriously keeps his cards close to the vest.
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Yserman just lost is 3rd overall pick for nothing, Drouin will play 1 year in Europe putting over a PPG and will receive a RFA offer from others teams. Sorry but your GM is a jerk. He wan a top defenseman signed not UFA for a guy who's not ready to play in the NHL ???
Um if he does that we will get compensation because it would have to be an offer sheet. If it's low enough we just match and keep him longer.
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Oh no! We suck again!!
Heh all this proves is that Allen Walsh is full of ****. It took 2 months to find out Yzerman wasn't going to trade ugly at all. Whatever, he can sit at home.
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Why would Drouin come back to play for the team when they didn't make a move at the deadline? I'm sure if they would have made a move at the deadline he would have come back to play....
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So many things wrong with your comment. If SY WAS close to a deal, then that means he was accommodating Drouin, and Drouin did the absolute #1 worst thing he could possibly do in the interest of finalizing a trade by SKIPPING WORK!
Let's say for the sake of argument that SY did advise them he was close to a deal.
"Then can I sit until the trade is finalized?"
"no"
That should be the end of it, but he decided not to show up for work! How is this even remotely on SY? You're the only one in the whole damn world who thinks that, much less is saying it.
If they thought they were close to a trade and that he was an injury risk, TBL would have made that decision, not the 20 year old diva.
LTIR Trickery
Plz stop pucks
That never happened. Allan Walsh isn't a very good agent. People seem to forget the Havlat ****show he created years ago.
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I think trading him today was best for our team in my opinion! How are the offers going to get better in the offseason?
There's no sense trading him for scraps. All the "asset management" posts in the world aren't going to change the fact that the absolute worst outcome for the Lightning is to trade him for scraps or lose him for nothing (somehow) and having him light up the league for someone else.
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Because teams like Anaheim might want their guy for the playoffs (Vatanen) but would be willing to part with him in the off-season...
Because if he's getting only offers of picks and prospects then he'd just get those same offers again at the draft along with a window of opportunity for Drouin to raise his value or suck it up and play again.
He didn't get a roster player that'd help us for the playoffs, trading him or not trading him today has no effect on the Lightning anyways.
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