EDMONTON, Alberta — To hear Jonathan Drouin tell it, there’s nothing to see in a goals drought that hit the two-month mark Wednesday.
“I’m old enough to just play the game. If I score, I score. If I don’t, I don’t,” Drouin told The Post before he went scoreless again in the Islanders’ 1-0 win over the Oilers on Thursday night. “I’m not one of those guys that’s gonna start shooting 10 on net just to get one in and get that out of the way. A lot of guys will try to shoot nine on net cause they haven’t scored in a month or two months. I just play the game that’s in front of me, and if there’s a play, make a play.”
Drouin has never scored more than 21 goals in a season, and wasn’t signed for that reason, but however positive his attitude, 24 games is a long time for anyone to go without scoring. And though the Islanders haven’t gone as far as to take him out of the top six, let alone sit him for a game, Drouin also has just six assists in that time frame — and was dropped both from the top power play unit and the top six on Thursday.
And though the Islanders haven’t gone as far as to take him out of the top six, let alone sit him for a game, Drouin also has just six assists in that time frame.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
