Yea, I could easily see mental health/COVID being the culprit here.
As a healthy 22-year old who took COVID itself seriously but wasn't overly worried about getting it myself, the post-COVID side effects I've been dealing with 4 months later (still problems with tiredness, and now have Parosmia, which is the worst thing I've ever dealt with my entire life), it's taken a massive toll on me mentally despite me otherwise being very happy with general life.
Lots of people just look at athletes and see the amount of money they make thinking they have it so easy and have nothing to complain about, but while they're obviously in a much better position generally than most people in the sense they don't have to worry about the financial toll COVID has caused, mental health is a serious matter.
With all that said, we don't know for sure that Drouin is dealing with mental health so it could be a completely different reason why he's taking a leave of absence.
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