Confirmed Signing with Link: [NSH] F Mark Jankowski signs extension with the Predators (1 year, $775k)

[MMC]

Click to read more...

 

[BonMorrison]

Warm body mostly, he's been fine in a 4th line role.

 

[herzausstein]

Fine 13th forward or bottom line grinder pay. As long as he doesnt get played higher than he should be, ive got no issues.

 

[Flgatorguy87]

Solid cheap bottom line veteran to help give some experience to our lineup. Not much to dislike about this.

 

[DEANYOUNGBLOOD17]

Quote Jay Fester the GM of Calgary Flames after trading down from 14 to pick 21 to select him @ 2012 draft!!!

” In 10 years Mark Jankowski may be the best player chosen in the 2012 draft”

1 year in 2023 $775k……… sounds like good value

Calgary could have drafted Hertl / Tom Wilson or T.B Goalie Vasilevsky@ pick 14


Good for him for still being able to collect a pay check 11 years later playing a game we all love! ( I’m not going to make $775 k US next year Playing hockey)

 

[biturbo19]

Quote Jay Fester the GM of Calgary Flames after trading down from 14 to pick 21 to select him @ 2012 draft!!!

” In 10 years Mark Jankowski may be the best player chosen in the 2012 draft”

1 year in 2023 $775k……… sounds like good value

Calgary could have drafted Hertl / Tom Wilson or T.B Goalie Vasilevsky@ pick 14


Good for him for still being able to collect a pay check 11 years later playing a game we all love! ( I’m not going to make $775 k US next year Playing hockey)

As much as it's fun to poke at the Flames for going way off the board with the complete "mystery box" in Jankowski...that range of the draft had a lot of other guys who ended up being busts, or journeymen at best. As well as some guys who only found their stride after being given up on by their original drafting team. The "hype" for what Jankowski could become makes it a lot funnier, but other teams did worse in the same area of the draft.

It was a pretty weird draft overall in retrospect. A lot of really bad decisions made by a lot of teams. Plenty of "safe" slam dunks that went completely sideways. And a lot of the most "questionable" decisions at the draft table that year, ended up being the best decisions in the end.



But anyway...nice that Jankowski has managed to carve out a decent journeyman depth player career for himself. Sometimes you get a Tage Thompson. More often you get a Jankowski or a Poehling or worse.

 

[Michoulicious]

What a deal for the best player in his draft!

Jay Feaster must be real jealous.

 

[heretik27]

As much as it's fun to poke at the Flames for going way off the board with the complete "mystery box" in Jankowski...that range of the draft had a lot of other guys who ended up being busts, or journeymen at best. As well as some guys who only found their stride after being given up on by their original drafting team. The "hype" for what Jankowski could become makes it a lot funnier, but other teams did worse in the same area of the draft.

It was a pretty weird draft overall in retrospect. A lot of really bad decisions made by a lot of teams. Plenty of "safe" slam dunks that went completely sideways. And a lot of the most "questionable" decisions at the draft table that year, ended up being the best decisions in the end.



But anyway...nice that Jankowski has managed to carve out a decent journeyman depth player career for himself. Sometimes you get a Tage Thompson. More often you get a Jankowski or a Poehling or worse.

Yep, just look at Calgary's needs at the time.. their best center prospect was maybe Nemisz who was putting up around .5ppg in the AHL with Backlund looking like he'd fill a bottom six defensive role in the NHL. Calgary drafted Jankowski, Monahan and then Bennett with their first pick in three consecutive years trying to draft someone that could fill that #1 C role. The only center in that 2012 draft that's even remotely capable as a top 6 center is Hertl, and he had years of sheltered development. So yeah, better picks could be had, but that draft stunk.

 

[GeeoffBrown]

Meh he's still in the league and the #1 pick from that draft isn't

 

[glenngineer]

Quote Jay Fester the GM of Calgary Flames after trading down from 14 to pick 21 to select him @ 2012 draft!!!

” In 10 years Mark Jankowski may be the best player chosen in the 2012 draft”

1 year in 2023 $775k……… sounds like good value

Calgary could have drafted Hertl / Tom Wilson or T.B Goalie Vasilevsky@ pick 14


Good for him for still being able to collect a pay check 11 years later playing a game we all love! ( I’m not going to make $775 k US next year Playing hockey)

I still hate that Poile traded down to pick Pickard at 18 when he could've stayed put and gotten Karlsson. Different draft and the same concept. He later picked Josi in the second. If he had done that, he would've had two drafts, 5 years apart that he selected an entire top pairing for his D.

 

[Nemesis Prime]

Flames legend

 

[CraigsList]

Ridiculous value for the best player in the 2012 draft, bar none

 

[McSuper]

As much as it's fun to poke at the Flames for going way off the board with the complete "mystery box" in Jankowski...that range of the draft had a lot of other guys who ended up being busts, or journeymen at best. As well as some guys who only found their stride after being given up on by their original drafting team. The "hype" for what Jankowski could become makes it a lot funnier, but other teams did worse in the same area of the draft.

It was a pretty weird draft overall in retrospect. A lot of really bad decisions made by a lot of teams. Plenty of "safe" slam dunks that went completely sideways. And a lot of the most "questionable" decisions at the draft table that year, ended up being the best decisions in the end.



But anyway...nice that Jankowski has managed to carve out a decent journeyman depth player career for himself. Sometimes you get a Tage Thompson. More often you get a Jankowski or a Poehling or worse.

Or you could get a Yakupov and a Puljujarvi at 1st OA and 4th OA