Jonathan Drouin
New York Islanders Left Wing
37 points in 43 games in Colorado at a point-per-game rate he had never previously held, signed here in the summer.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | TBL | 70 | 4 | 28 | 32 | +3 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 5.3 | 13:14 |
| 2015-16 | TBL | 21 | 4 | 6 | 10 | +1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 16.0 | 14:27 |
| 2016-17 | TBL | 73 | 21 | 32 | 53 | -13 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 183 | 11.5 | 17:42 |
| 2017-18 | MTL | 77 | 13 | 33 | 46 | -28 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 164 | 7.9 | 17:36 |
| 2018-19 | MTL | 81 | 18 | 35 | 53 | -8 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 190 | 9.5 | 16:56 |
| 2019-20 | MTL | 27 | 7 | 8 | 15 | -6 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 51 | 13.7 | 15:42 |
| 2020-21 | MTL | 44 | 2 | 21 | 23 | -8 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 2.6 | 16:05 |
| 2021-22 | MTL | 34 | 6 | 14 | 20 | -9 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 9.7 | 17:06 |
| 2022-23 | MTL | 58 | 2 | 27 | 29 | -18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 2.9 | 14:54 |
| 2023-24 | COL | 79 | 19 | 37 | 56 | +12 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 127 | 15.0 | 18:11 |
| 2024-25 | COL | 43 | 11 | 26 | 37 | +4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 56 | 19.6 | 18:11 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 607 | 107 | 267 | 374 | -70 | 219 | 28 | 0 | 19 | 1079 | 9.9 | 16:33 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
43 games with Colorado, 11 goals and 26 assists for 37 points at 18:11 a night, on 56 shots at 19.64 per cent. 6 penalty minutes. Plus-4. He signed with the Islanders in the summer.
A 0.86-point-per-game rate is the best of his career by some distance and it came alongside a shooting percentage that will not repeat. He has now missed significant time in five of the last six seasons.
The Finesse Game
The passing is the whole player and it is genuinely excellent — patient, deceptive, delivered late and into space rather than early and onto a stick. 26 assists in 43 games from the wing is a legitimate first-line rate.
The hands are very good in traffic and the release is quicker than the shot volume suggests. 56 shots in 43 games is the standing problem: he looks for the pass first, second and third, and a defender who knows that can cheat toward it.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 189 and he is not a factor physically in any direction. He does not go to the net front, he does not win pucks along the wall, and he avoids the exchanges rather than losing them.
6 penalty minutes in 43 games. Everything he does requires time and space, and he does not create either for himself.
The Intangibles
The 3rd overall pick in 2013, a decade of injuries and unmet expectation in Montreal, and two genuinely productive seasons in Colorado alongside better players than he had ever had.
He is 30. The question this signing asks is whether the last two years were Colorado or him, and the Islanders have considerably less talent to surround him with than the club he just left.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 614 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.1%
- 72nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 58.4%
- 97th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 25 for, 23 against. Expected: 26.9 and 24.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 51 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 67 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with COL · 614 minutes at five-on-five
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2024-25
- The club
- COL took 53.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.1% — 1.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 614 minutes at five-on-five — 23rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan MacKinnon | 53.7% | 49.7% | 59.8% |
| Cale Makar | 49.6% | 55.0% | 58.7% |
| Devon Toews | 50.1% | 54.2% | 56.7% |
53.7% together, 49.7% for him apart and 59.8% for MacKinnon apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with MacKinnon and did not follow him.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
87 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.