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Immediately after acquiring him, the Canadiens signed him to
a six-year, $33 million contract, according to multiple outlets.
Montreal also received a conditional sixth-round pick in the
2018 draft from Tampa Bay in exchange for blue-chip defense
prospect Mikhail Sergachev and a conditional second-round pick
in next year's draft.
Drouin enjoyed his best season of his young career in 2016-17,
collecting 21 goals and 32 assists in 73 games with the
Lightning.
Drouin has 29 goals and 66 assists in 164 career games since
being selected by the Lightning with the third overall pick of
the 2013 draft.
All was not rosy in Tampa Bay for Drouin, who refused an
assignment to Syracuse of the American Hockey League in 2016. He
was suspended without pay for nearly two months before
eventually accepting the demotion to the AHL.
Sergachev, who was the ninth overall pick of the 2016 draft,
recorded a plus-1 rating while playing in four games for the
Canadiens this past season. The 18-year-old Russian also played
in 50 games with Windsor of the Ontario Hockey League, scoring
10 goals and setting up 33 others.
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