Drouin needed to outplay one of Kucherov, Palat, Killorn, Callahan, Namestikov and Marchessault to break into the top three lines. That's how deep Tampa is on the wing and the thing is, he didn't outplay them. So Drouin's problem is not really to do too much with him but rather how deep Tampa is and that he's still very young and the greenest forward budding for ice time.
Can you really blame Yzerman for having ridiculous depth? Yzerman has no real need to trade Drouin either because he wants that depth. Drouin really only has one option here and that's play better and force Yzerman's hand to either play him or trade him. As it stands right now, he doesn't need to do either for Drouin.
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