can you explain the Nate and Drouin thing to me...I'm a bit out of the loop?
to be honest i am not the most well-versed on their lore, but i do know they were teammates together on the Halifax Mooseheads and won the Mem Cup together. They were best friends and really, really close and would basically gush about one another all the time. baby gays, if you will.
then they were drafted 1st and 3rd overall together.
they also later would play together on international teams and were disgustingly cute about each other then too.
i haven't followed jo's career but i know it's been riddled with injuries and obviously hasn't gone as well as nate's. so for nate to advocate for him even after he's struggled is...a lot. especially since it's been a while since they've spoken about each other/interacted together publicly (as far as i'm aware). this podcast interview from 2020 (around the 21-28 min mark) with nate might've been the most recent time they've talked about one another? not sure tho.
(side note: nate talking about draft rankings bothering the shit out of him but him going 'but it never affected me and jo, we always supported eachother, even at 17'............hello???).
so, this year should be interesting.
here's a tag with some of the stuff i've reblogged recently (not sure if/what i tagged anything before then) that has some old clips/quotes and stuff.
oh also of course: a halifax teammate kissed jo drouin on the lips in celebration one time. so there's that.
if anyone has links/info/lore for this lovely non, feel free to add!
Yea he gets fired up, a little too much sometimes with the refs. I try to calm him down but if you know Nate you're gonna say the right thing in the right moment or he's gonna go off on you. So yea, he's a very fiery guy, he's in the game; coming out of the box for sure he's got the fire in him.