Islanders’ Jonathan Drouin out day-to-day with lower-body injury
New York Islanders forward Jonathan Drouin is out day-to-day with a lower-body injury and did not dress for Sunday’s game against the Florida Panthers.
Drouin, 30, has three goals and 20 points in 53 games with the Islanders this season. The 5’11” winger is under contract through the 2026-27 season at a $4 million annual cap hit.
In Drouin’s absence, fellow winger Anthony Duclair returned to the lineup for the Islanders after missing the previous three games as a healthy scratch. The 30-year-old winger has 12 goals and 26 points in 54 games with the Islanders in the 2025-26 season.
#Isles Player Update: Jonathan Drouin is day-to-day (lower body injury). Anthony Duclair will play.
The Islanders originally signed Drouin to a two-year contract as an unrestricted free agent on July 1. The Sainte-Agathe, Quebec product has not recorded a point in his last 14 games played.
The Tampa Bay Lightning originally selected Drouin with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2013 NHL Draft. Drouin spent the first three seasons of his NHL career with the Lightning, helping the club reach the 2015 Stanley Cup Final, before being traded to the Montreal Canadiens in 2017.
Drouin played the next six seasons of his career in his home province, although he never quite lived up to his billing as a top draft pick — particularly compared to Mikhail Sergachev, who went the other way in the trade and won two Stanley Cups with the Lightning.
As a free agent in 2023, Drouin signed with the Colorado Avalanche to reunite with former QMJHL teammate Nathan MacKinnon. He experienced his greatest NHL success to date in Colorado, scoring 30 goals and 93 points in 122 games over two seasons.
In 660 career NHL games over parts of 12 seasons with the Lightning, Canadiens, Avalanche, and Islanders, Drouin has collected 110 goals and 394 points. He’s added six goals and 27 points in 43 career playoff contests.