Druken enjoyed a prolific three-year Ontario Hockey League (OHL) career, spent with the Detroit/Plymouth Whalers franchise, during which time he was named to the OHL All-Rookie Team in 1997 and OHL Second All-Star Team in 1999. His most productive season in the OHL was a 58-goal, 103-point effort in 1998–99, which was good for seventh in league scoring. He represented Canada at the 1999 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, where he won a silver medal and became lifelong friends with Roberto Luongo.\n', '

Druken was drafted by the Vancouver Canucks 36th overall in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft following his OHL rookie season. He turned professional in 1999–2000 and split the season between the Canucks and their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch. He scored 45 points in 47 games with the Crunch, earning him AHL All-Rookie honours, while also appearing in 33 games for Vancouver, scoring 7 goals.\n', '

The following season, Druken spent time with the Canucks\' International Hockey League (IHL) affiliate, the Kansas City Blades, but spent the majority of the campaign with the Canucks, a season in which he appeared in an NHL career-high 55 games and scored 15 goals and 30 points, including a hat-trick on December 8, 2000, against the San Jose Sharks. Druken ended a 13-goal scoring drought late in the season when he scored two goals in a crucial game on April 6, 2001, against the Los Angeles Kings. He scored his second goal of the game just outside the lip of the crease to beat Félix Potvin in overtime, secure a 3–2 win and a Canucks\' Stanley Cup playoff berth for the first time in five years. The Canucks finished the season as the eighth and final seed in the Western Conference and were swept in the opening round by the Colorado Avalanche. Druken contributed one assist in the series, the only NHL playoff appearance of his career.\n', '

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