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He won't be the top player, but he will probably have a long NHL career and be a great 2 way center, which isn't bad for a 22nd or whatever pick he was... people will be eating crow though.
Slow your role bro...
I like Janko as much as the next guy, but I'd be ecstatic if he turns into our 3rd line C for the future, he's got top 6 potential though for sure.
And once again, Feaster didn't say that.
#freemonahanIt really doesn't matter if Vasilevskiy, or Murray, or Parayko, or Lindholm, or Filip Forsberg have whatever success they have. Jankowski is the best Center in the 2012 NHL draft with only Tomas Hertl in a distant 2nd. He is at the very least a similar type of talent to Scheifele or Couturier which anyone would gladly take without a 1st overall pick, and maybe even with. Finding talented centers without McTanking is borderline impossible. With Bennett, Jankowski, Backlund, and Monahan we finally have four natural centers who all belong on a good team's top 6 forward group. That's a tall order.
29 whole days younger!! Never mind that as an 18 year old he was more filled out than Jankowski was at 20, or that he took a coventional route to he NHL playing multiple years of major junior and then getting handed a comfy NHL spot with superstar Gaudreau for the rest of his career to date.
Scores 2 goals in a game
“Is Jankowski now the best player from his draft?”
It's kind of a ridiculous thread for his first NHL season. It's far too early to tell what kind of player he is.
It's equally obnoxious to start using points as a comparison to similarly drafted players as Jankowski didn't go the traditional route of major junior.
However looking at the draft year, I wo nder by the end of.the year if Oiler fans wished they would have drafted Jankowski instead of Yakupov.
Pretty sure the Oilers already wish they'd drafted one of the top pairing D or solid 2nd pairing D over Yakupov.It's kind of a ridiculous thread for his first NHL season. It's far too early to tell what kind of player he is.
It's equally obnoxious to start using points as a comparison to similarly drafted players as Jankowski didn't go the traditional route of major junior.
However looking at the draft year, I wo nder by the end of.the year if Oiler fans wished they would have drafted Jankowski instead of Yakupov.
My comment about the Oilers picking Jankowski instead of Yakupov if they had a time machine was tongue in cheek.
It builds on the ridiculousness of determining a player's worth after 10 games.
I hate the race car/'I'm a superstar' number on him and soooooo many other borderline NHLers. Other than that he's looked fine the past couple games.
He was 10 in college and 17 in the AHL. It's pretty common for players breaking in the league to use a higher number, then get a lower one after they assert themselves in the league.
pretty sure the OP is not a Flames fanKnew the brag thread was coming after last nights performance,
Thread was not posted by a Flames fan, so it's not chest thumping. I took it as a guy pointing out Janko had a 3 point night while mocking Feaster for his comments at the same time.There's a player that literally has 200 more points than Janokowski from that draft class right now... and 4 points total/one multi-point night is all it takes for the chest thumping?
He's got a LONG way to go to be at the top of this class.
Slavin?
In 2012 Jay Feaster said that in 10 years Jankowski will be viewed as best player of 2012 draft. And he got laughed at and very soon after fired.
Fast forward and after 5 seasons of busting his ass in the minors, Jankowski finally is the NHL and has 3 goals, 4 points in last 2 games, including this beauty tonight
It is early, but Janko is looking like he might just be bringing back the ghost of Feaster and proving him right. What will Janko's future hold and look like?
There is an echo chamber somewhere on the deep web where flames fans congregate and come up with this stuff.
True story.