Recalled/Assigned: Mark Jankowski recalled

[Skobel24]

I actually really liked the Cervenka signing, and if he hadn't been injured for training camp, I think he'd have been a 40-50 point guy. (Edit: In an 82 game season, of course)

 

[SmellOfVictory]

Feaster had some decent drafting. That's really it. For all his faults, the mark Sutter left on this team is still much bigger and better than Feaster's all these years later.

Sutter did leave a big mark on the team, but it was very mixed. His worst moves were failures of cap management, I think; he traded for Jokinen (which was a terrible idea from day one) which ended up screwing up the Flames' cap management for the end of that year and forced them to play with a short roster - not to mention how awful he was with the Flames overall. He then completely overcompensated for that by moving Phaneuf in an alleged cap-spreading move and got back a return that culminated with a bottom six centre.

His penchant for guys with no puck skills (Sarich, Jackman, Ivanans, and so on) to fill out the bottom end of the roster was also really unfortunate.

 

[Unlimited Chequing]

Cool video about Jankowski's grandpa

 

[Lunatik]

A fan bought those sticks specifically for Janko? That is awesome.

 

[Unlimited Chequing]

Yeah I thought that was a really cool gesture