nice trade

I don't get the obsession with Drouin. He's totally unproven. However, This is a good trade from the standpoint that Mueller & Goldobin have yet to play in the NHL. I wouldn't give up a proven player for him.

We wish Drouin would be that cheap.

He would be in Deboer's doghouse almost immediately though. We play a multi-tier complicated neutral zone defensive system that Drouin would not enjoy. In the offensive zone, he would probably be happy, but ............

on the other hand, this is not Tampa. If he complained about backchecking and getting grief over his effort, Thornton would beat some sense into him. Stamkos makes as many, if not more mistakes than Drouin, so he is not exactly leading by example. Drouin had such a short leash while the leaders in front of him made way more mistakes and got a longer leash that he cried foul.

Mind you, it is tremendously immature how he is going about it. Thornton went through the same and soldiered through until he broke out

Unlike joe above me I think this is a fair deal. Drouin's value has gone down significantly over the past 1-2 years and Tampa is dealing from a point of weakness by openly shopping Drouin. I don't think Drouin is worth more than Ladd who went for Dano (slightly higher value than goldobin) and a late first round pick (roughly the same value as mueller) . Maybe you could add a player like Helewka if anything but I think it's very close to an even trade and should be excepted if Tampa doesn't receive any better options.

However, like Joe I'm not particularly excited about Drouin on the Sharks. I don't like his attitude and don't think he would fit in well with the Sharks system. We already have a player with a similar skill set that needs to work on his defensive game in goldobin but at least goldobin has a better work ethic.