Jonathan Drouin screws his former team on Saturday night.

Jonathan Drouin's tenure as a member of the Montreal Canadiens ended with significant controversy and has understandably left a bad taste in the mouths of some hockey fans in that city. That being said, should the Canadiens miss the playoffs by a single point this season, or even worse in some kind of tiebreaker scenario, Drouin could very well find himself becoming public enemy number one.

That's because on Saturday night, Drouin used some insider knowledge to help his current team, the Colorado Avalanche, secure a win in the shootout over his former team.

It was Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar who revealed how invaluable Drouin's knowledge of the Canadiens had been in the shootout, with Drouin even pulling himself out of the lineup of shooters in order to help facilitate what would prove to be the game winning goal for the Avalanche.

"I was getting ready to go with Drouin," admitted Bednar. "Drouin told me to go with [Brock] Nelson, that his move would beat [Samuel Montembeault]."

Drouin of course played with Montembeault as a member of the Montreal Canadiens for two seasons and as a result has been able to pick up some of the tendencies of that goaltender better than an opposing player normally would. Bednar confirmed that it had been Drouin's call to put Nelson into the shootout.

"The players often know a little bit more than us from watching each other," admitted Bednar. "So Drou actually made that call."

To be clear Drouin isn't doing anything wrong here by using intimate knowledge of his opponent to his team's advantage. In fact you could easily make the argument that these are exactly the kind of calls he should be making when he has that kind of information available to him, especially considering that his decision led to the game winning goal this time around. That being said, I'm not convinced that this will be viewed through that same lens by the rabid fan base of the Montreal Canadiens.

You can hear Bednar's comments about Drouin's last second call in the shootout in the short clip below: