{"id":135636,"date":"2023-02-16T13:46:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T18:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=135636"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T18:46:32","slug":"nhl-rumours-montreal-canadiens-forward-likely-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/02\/16\/nhl-rumours-montreal-canadiens-forward-likely-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumours: Montreal Canadiens Forward Likely to Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Main photo by: David Kirouac-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for another round of NHL rumours for Thursday. We&#8217;re closing in on the March 3 trade deadline and plenty of players could be moved. However, today&#8217;s NHL rumours talks about one that could stay put. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_self\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> might be a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/02\/03\/nhl-rumours-joel-edmundson-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">seller at the deadline<\/a>, but one player may not be moved. Today&#8217;s NHL rumours talks about how unlikely a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/drouijo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-02-16_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Drouin<\/a> trade is.<\/p>\n<p>All NHL rumours come from the original source and are subject to change.<\/p>\n<h2>NHL Rumours<\/h2>\n<h3>Jonathan Drouin Trade Unlikely<\/h3>\n<p>Rumour: TSN&#8217;s Eric Macramalla said that it&#8217;s not likely that the embattled forward will be traded at the deadline. Macramalla didn&#8217;t completely eliminate the idea of Drouin being dealt, but its more of a no than it is a yes. Drouin<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/02\/04\/nhl-rumours-josh-anderson-staying\/\" target=\"_self\"> isn&#8217;t the only Canadiens player<\/a> that may stay in Montreal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m reading that Jonathan Drouin could be moved by the trade deadline. That seems highly unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Macramalla (@EricMacramalla) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricMacramalla\/status\/1625504013184827392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not been a pleasant few seasons for Drouin in his hometown since being traded from the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/lightning\/\" target=\"_self\"> Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>. The 27-year-old has yet to score a goal in 31 games this season for the Habs. His best season with the Canadiens was when he netted 18 goals in the 2018-19 season. However, injuries and other factors have caused him to struggle. He did score six goals last season, but has yet to light the lamp this campaign.<\/p>\n<h3>Could a Jonathan Drouin Trade Still Happen?<\/h3>\n<p>Drouin might see more opportunities in the lineup if Montreal does <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/01\/27\/nhl-rumours-avalanche-canadiens-sean-monahan-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">make some moves at the deadline.<\/a> His $5.5 million contract comes off the books and the end of the season and he becomes an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely a team waits for July 1 to take a chance on him with a low-risk, low-money contract. He could be an interesting reclamation project for a team that could shore their bottom-six forward group. However, he probably plays out the string with the Canadiens and moves on. A change of scenery could be just the tonic for the young forward that was the third overall pick of the 2013 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main photo by: David Kirouac-USA TODAY Sports It&#8217;s time for another round of NHL rumours for Thursday. We&#8217;re closing in on the March 3 trade deadline and plenty of players could be moved. However, today&#8217;s NHL rumours talks about one that could stay put. The Montreal Canadiens might be a seller at the deadline, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":135637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4321,4547,7,4548],"tags":[585,6126,965],"class_list":["post-135636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rumours","category-hockey","category-canadiens","category-nhl","tag-jonathan-drouin","tag-montreal-canadiens-rumours","tag-nhl-trade-deadline"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}