For people saying Drouin isn't a proven NHL player-
He put up 32 points last year in 70 games while playing 4th line minutes. Sam B does that playing top 6 mins this year and we have to be pretty happy.
Also when comparing him to players in his draft year it's important to remember that 4/5 of the players drafted directly after him were late birthdays (Jones,Monahan,Lindholm,Risto) so they had an extra year of junior at that point.
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