Quoting: Blazingbat11
Buddy, this isn't a good deal for Drouin. You trying to compare Burakovsky to him is a far reach, and you're cherry picking stats trying to try and prove you're point. You use career stats because Bura started out pretty solid as a goal scoring prospect, but has declined over the years. If you use this years stats, you see a big difference. He's never reached 40 pts in a single season (Drouin has 3 seasons now). You seem to want to ignore PP time, as if it somehow doesn't matter in evaluating players, because again it goes against what you're saying.
You doing the "if squint hard enough, look sideways, and do a handstand, you can see if you only use career stats, only at 5 on 5, ignore PP time, Burakovsky is sorta kinda similar to Drouin in a lot of aspects!" is ridiculous...
too many fallacies my friend, try someone else to compare him to.
Compare him to someone else? Okay. Burakovsky is undervalued like Brett Connolly was when the Caps signed him as a minimum wage UFA after he didn't get a Q.O. because he had two freak injuries two years in a row, or like Taylor Hall was, when Edmonton traded him for an above average stay at home defenseman after he had three freak injuries in four years, which caused his numbers to appear to decline, while still being obviously pretty good. He's not as good as Hall, but few are. Counting playoffs he's got 4 more career points, counting playoffs, than Connolly, a former 6th overall pick who started out with the Lightning, bounced through another good team in Boston, and is almost three years older than Burakovsky, his linemate.
If I wanted to really compare him to Drouin, for what the Caps are probably after, I'd say that they're close enough, in even strength playoff points per game, until they get to the Stanley Cup Finals, where Burakovsky gets 0.80, and Drouin gets 0.00.
https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/d/drouijo01/gamelog/playoffs
But in terms of what the Habs are after, Drouin speaks French, has better draft position, makes a great face for the franchise for the next decade. He's not going anywhere.
He'd be a good fit in Washington if he were available, because he has enough power play experience to join the top unit, and let Kuznetsov move to the 2nd unit. Kuznetsov's skill on the 2nd unit would make it really effective against other teams' 2nd PK units. Burakovsky would not immediately be as good as Drouin on power plays. He should eventually be just as good, but will need time to learn how power plays work in the NHL, with good players. The few shifts he gets with Eller and Connolly aren't teaching him everything.