{"id":611505,"date":"2017-01-23T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=611505"},"modified":"2017-01-23T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:00:42","slug":"woodward-jonathan-drouin-comes-full-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/woodward-jonathan-drouin-comes-full-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodward: Jonathan Drouin Comes Full Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"
Since arriving in Tampa shrouded in a\u00a0whirlwind of buzz<\/a>,\u00a0Jonathan Drouin<\/a>‘s road to NHL success has been anything but a straight and narrow path. In fact, it’s been paved with many twists and turns during the three and a half years it’s taken for his journey to come full-circle.<\/p>\n As the highest drafted Lightning player since captain\u00a0Steven Stamkos<\/a>\u00a0landed in the Bay area in summer 2008, Drouin was penciled in as number 91’s future wingman and eventual replacement for\u00a0Martin St. Louis<\/a>\u00a0from the moment he was selected. The widespread expectation was that he’d\u00a0be competing for a role with the Lightning immediately.<\/p>\n