{"id":46382,"date":"2019-05-01T19:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=46382"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:33:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:33:45","slug":"montreal-canadiens-jonathan-drouin-undergoes-minor-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/05\/01\/montreal-canadiens-jonathan-drouin-undergoes-minor-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens Jonathan Drouin Undergoes Minor Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> announced on Wednesday that winger <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/drouijo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Drouin<\/a><\/strong> had undergone minor surgery. They explained that this surgery helped to fix a fractured nose, though didn&#8217;t say when the injury occurred. Drouin isn&#8217;t expected to miss any prolonged time, continuing his summer training in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Many fans were curious as to why Drouin wasn&#8217;t mentioned when <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/04\/29\/canada-2019-world-championship-roster\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Team Canada announced their World Championship roster on Monday<\/a>. This news helps hush said curiosity, though.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Medical update: Jonathan Drouin underwent surgery to repair a fractured nose.<\/p>\n<p>DETAILS \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VKXfFkzwhG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/VKXfFkzwhG<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoHabsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoHabsGo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/1123672523302940673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Jonathan Drouin Undergoes Minor Surgery<\/h1>\n<p>Drouin was able to tie a career-high in scoring this past season, netting 18 goals and 35 points for 53 points. This was also a career-high in assists and only three short of his record in goals. 2018-19 was his second season with the Canadiens since the team acquired him in June of 2017. That deal saw the Canadiens trade\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sergami01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikhail Sergachev<\/a><\/strong> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> in exchange for Drouin. There were also two conditional draft picks, one for each team, but neither were exercised.<\/p>\n<p>Since that deal, Drouin has netted a total of 99 points through 158 games in Montreal. In contrast, Sergachev has scored 72 in 154 games as a part of the Lightning defence.<\/p>\n<p>Drouin averaged just under 17 minutes of ice time each game. This was roughly a minute less than his average over the last two seasons. Towards the end of the year, he was lined up alongside rookie <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kotkaje01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesperi Kotkaniemi<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/armiajo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel Armia<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on the team&#8217;s third line.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing Drouin on the third line may come as a bit of a surprise to those looking from the outside. This demotion from the team&#8217;s top-six is the result of a handful of late-season struggles. Drouin only managed seven points through the last 25 games of the season. This number is inflated, though, by a four-point night on February 26.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about his cold-streak, <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/sports\/hockey\/nhl\/hockey-inside-out\/canadiens-jonathan-drouin-has-surgery-on-fractured-nose\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drouin showed a healthy amount of maturity<\/a> with his response. &#8220;For me, it\u2019s just to look at that stuff and make sure you\u2019re mature about it and take the good from the bad a little bit. Not just look at how bad it was&#8230; you got to find a way to gain from that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"qnw3iokLQ-Fy7FAIDgmctQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1069415710\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'qnw3iokLQ-Fy7FAIDgmctQ',sig:'IpVA1TMfEqw1P_Zjp01QAQxewV3o_Eemf7p4JNjf5_c=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1069415710',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens announced on Wednesday that winger Jonathan Drouin had undergone minor surgery. They explained that this surgery helped to fix a fractured nose, though didn&#8217;t say when the injury occurred. Drouin isn&#8217;t expected to miss any prolonged time, continuing his summer training in a few weeks. Many fans were curious as to why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1628,"featured_media":46386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[7,34],"tags":[37,5738,585,152,2569,38,955,42],"class_list":["post-46382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadiens","category-news","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-news","tag-jonathan-drouin","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-news","tag-tampa-bay-lightning"],"modified_by":"Gabriel Foley","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382","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\/1628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}