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.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.14 penalty minutes a game over 43, 8th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
“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.”
“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”
“he avoids the exchanges rather than losing them.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 614 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.3%
- 72nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 58.5%
- 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: 37 for, 32 against. Expected: 28.1 and 25.6.
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 637 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 43 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 87th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.37 a game
- Distance
- 2.77 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 79.5 mph
- 18th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
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 52.3% — 0.9 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 | 55.2% | 48.3% | 60.2% |
| Cale Makar | 51.2% | 53.5% | 59.4% |
| Devon Toews | 51.5% | 53.1% | 56.8% |
55.2% together, 48.3% for him apart and 60.2% 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.