The New York Islanders have signed free agent winger Jonathan Drouin to a two-year contract, the crew introduced Tuesday. Based on The Athletic’s Chris Johnston, the contract has a median annual worth of $4 million. The Islanders are Drouin’s fourth group since being picked third total within the 2013 NHL Draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The 30-year-old Québecois winger spent his final two seasons with the Colorado Avalanche, scoring 30 objectives and 93 factors in 122 video games with the franchise for a median of 0.76 factors per sport. Colorado can be the place Drouin posted a career-high in factors (56) throughout the 2023-24 marketing campaign, when he additionally scored 19 objectives. Drouin added three assists within the Avalanche’s seven playoff video games this spring. Drouin has 107 objectives and 374 factors in 607 profession NHL video games with Tampa Bay, Montreal and Colorado.
Drouin was ranked ninth on Chris Johnston’s latest free agent board on Tuesday. The winger was projected to signal a three-year take care of an annual common worth of $5,094,494, based on numbers compiled from AFP Analytics and CapWages.
How does Drouin match with the Isles?
Drouin took one-year, low AAV offers the previous two summers to each go to and keep in Colorado, the place he discovered success with former junior teammate Nathan MacKinnon. He had 93 factors in 122 profession video games with the Avalanche, typically enjoying within the crew’s prime six. After two years of taking reductions, the 30-year-old will get a few years of safety whereas additionally securing $8 million ($4 million AAV). Colorado didn’t have the cap flexibility to comfortably deliver him again.
Drouin is a robust offensive participant and passer. He ought to match properly into the Islanders’ prime six. The Islanders nonetheless have $7.1 million in cap area, per PuckPedia.
We’ll see how a lot work that “offensive problem” adjustment is doing. However this looks like an affordable wager for the Islanders to make. Drouin was nice in Colorado. pic.twitter.com/jBPhI6SE6O
— dom 📈 (@domluszczyszyn) July 1, 2025
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