JoshInFenton wrote: ↑28 Jun 2026 22:42 pm
Jack Drury had a ton of PK time and a solid faceoff percentage on the best penalty killing team in the league last year. While goals are nice, if you can do those two things really well and be a part of a great unit, you will get looks and you will get paid and you will stick around. 4.5M to me is about where 2.5-3M got you 5-6 years ago, which is a slightly overpaid 4th line center and a slightly underpaid 3rd line center.
Think guys like Drury are extremely underrated around the league. Not surprised that rather than star talent from his former team he is going and grabbing the supporting cast to help supplement a decent but aging core in Nashville.
This...
To inject a bit more perspective, of his 969 face-offs, 739 were in the NZ/DZ. He skates the hardest minutes on the ice, and it says something about a kid who consistently starts with the ice slanted against him, but still managed to be +15.
I love hockey players that draw a line on the ice and say "this line no further", like the Sunny/Barb's/Steen line in the day...
JoshInFenton wrote: ↑28 Jun 2026 22:42 pm
Jack Drury had a ton of PK time and a solid faceoff percentage on the best penalty killing team in the league last year. While goals are nice, if you can do those two things really well and be a part of a great unit, you will get looks and you will get paid and you will stick around. 4.5M to me is about where 2.5-3M got you 5-6 years ago, which is a slightly overpaid 4th line center and a slightly underpaid 3rd line center.
Think guys like Drury are extremely underrated around the league. Not surprised that rather than star talent from his former team he is going and grabbing the supporting cast to help supplement a decent but aging core in Nashville.
This...
To inject a bit more perspective, of his 969 face-offs, 739 were in the NZ/DZ. He skates the hardest minutes on the ice, and it says something about a kid who consistently starts with the ice slanted against him, but still managed to be +15.
I love hockey players that draw a line on the ice and say "this line no further", like the Sunny/Barb's/Steen line in the day...
+1 and I think it will be good for the league if contract figures are weighed more evenly between skills/attributes/contributions, so as to not be so lopsided in favor of points. There's plenty of room for argument, and I've heard it all before, but now here we have the league moving in this direction. FLA leading the way. Maybe the Blues in 2019 were a part of that was well. We can talk all day about how they won, but everyone knows the main factor was team defensive structure plus relentless checking. I don't think the current Blues GM will disagree.
