Yeah, I'm a fan of Copp's. I think he's a solid player. But you don't want to pay 3rd line wingers significant money in general. I suspect he falls back to being a 25-30 point player and everyone feels he is overpaid. Its not a massive overpayment (not like people would blink if he was paid say 2.9 mil). I do think he has a lot of leverage with that season he's coming off though and no more RFA years, so you may be stuck paying it. I do like limiting the term to 4 years. I don't have a lot of faith he'll keep it up forever given his style of play. This takes him to 30, which seems pretty good for locking in prime years.

Really curious to see what the Savards of the NHL get this summer.

I feel like Drouin was overrated early in his NHL career/early Montreal career for his junior work, and underrated now because he has been a whipping boy in Montreal.

He is an average second line winger who has put up about a 45-58 point pace in the last 4 or 5 years. Admittedly his production has dropped a bit the last couple years, but frankly Montreal's centres are not very good...

I guess if you think he is declining he is a cap anchor. If you think he is still a 50-55 point player, which I do (again I think those centres suck), then he's probably worht high 4's. Yeah and overpay but not an anchor.

Yeah, I guess it's all personal preference with him. I really liked him in junior, but since then everything that has gone wrong with him is his own doing.

For me, Drouin at 26 is what he is, isn't likely to improve and is getting to the age when players start to drop in production. A 5.5 cap hit for 2 years with a modified NTC and the headaches and baggage he brings with him far outweighs any positive he might bring if absolutely everything goes right for him.

Fair enough. Honestly before posting my last comment I thought he had been more a 50-60 point player not a 45-55 point one and hadn't realized his last two were his worst years. .
That being said I think I mostly responded to cap anchor. It's probably semantics but to me he's more a bad contract than an anchor. Anchors are a level worse than him at least in my head

8 years ago?? Is this Jonathan Duncan Keith