[News] With the 21st overall pick Flames select C Mark Jankowski

[logan_izer10]

The best part of this pick is that we won't have to worry about him taking elbows to the head

[kirant]

Originally Posted by mrdonkey

Seems like everyone on HF and Twitter hates this move and is laughing at the Flames. As usual.

I think the only pick ever liked online was Baertschi...and it was more of a "well, they needed to pick him" feel.

[JayP]

Originally Posted by Diemenz

People on this board always comment they want calgary to take the high risk high reward type and now they have.

Personally I think Calgary is overloaded with bottom six players so drafting a player who is top 3 or bust makes sense to me. Why get another for sure moss when you can throw the dice and get a getzlaf.

I just think it's foolish when Teravainan is essentially that high upside guy and is a lot more proven. If the draft went as planned and there wasn't that huge run of d-men and Calgary was sitting at #14 with a pile of good, not great defensemen I'd like this pick a lot more.

[Swayze11]

NHL Comparsion: Jason Spezza.

Sign me up!

[flamesaresmokin]

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

So he's never even played major junior hockey? He plays high school hockey? Is that right?

That's what's mind boggling about using a first round pick on the kid......

I guess so long as he has that winning attitude nothing else matters.

[Parallex]

I don't hate this pick... I think Feaster could have traded down one more time and still gotten him but the talent is there. It's a big gamble since he hasn't been tested but the Star potential is there. I wonder if he'll go NCAA or if he tries out Major Junior... any one know who has his junior rights?

[Hammertime]

Originally Posted by JayP

I really hate statements like these.

When your assistant GM is making the call on who they're drafting after one viewing it's not a good thing. Pretty much a slap in the face to all the scouts who watch hundreds of games all year. You can't accurately scout a guy in that short a time period. I'm sure the Flames did their due diligence afterwards, but when the assistant GM is making statements like that it's going to be pretty tough to override that first impression.

It also feels abit like Feaster is dumping some of the accountability on Weisbrod in case the pick doesn't pan out. I'm sure that's not what he's thinking today, right now.. but if Jankowski is a bust, the fanbase is going to pin it on the Assistant GM.

[toquester]

The off the board pick he reminds me of is Nieuwendyk.

[Faust]

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=635275

By the time a player reaches the stage where he has a legitimate shot of being a first-round pick in the NHL Draft, many hockey fans are already familiar with his name.


That's not necessarily the case for Mark Jankowski -- but he's determined his relative obscurity doesn't last very long.


Jankowski spent the past two seasons playing forward for Stanstead College, a prep school in Quebec's Eastern Townships that has produced a number of NCAA Division 1 players over the past several years, but never someone who was this prominent on the NHL radar.


"Everyone says if you're good enough, you'll get noticed," Jankowski told NHL.com. "I always thought I was good enough and eventually I'd get noticed."

[Freeway]

Jankowski will play either at Providence College or with Saginaw in the OHL.

Or in the USHL, as Feaster suggested on TSN.

[Caged Great]

Originally Posted by Hustle

Jim Montgomery, Dubuque's Head Coach called him a 6'3 version of Johnny Gaudreau when they drafted him in the USHL draft.

That's why I'm so pleased we got him. He is basically Gaudreau, which is a pick that everyone likes, with the difference that he's 6'3" intead.

Gaudreau looks like he could develop into a quality player, and now we have a guy that's basically the same without the size problem. He'll be a great player.

[sureLoss]

Originally Posted by saskflames96

He's going the NCAA route.

Feaster says CHL is still an option. Saginaw Spirit hold his rights.

[kukkudo]

I will take Weisbrods Decision over anyone on this board. The Flames know what this player is capable of doing

[Captain_Obvious]

Originally Posted by JayP

I just think it's foolish when Teravainan is essentially that high upside guy and is a lot more proven..

Well it shouldn't have come as a surprise. If that was their guy they would have taken him at 14. When they didn't, it was pretty clear they had another player in mind.

[Manhattanboy]

The OHL, WHL and the Q are not good enough for the Calgary Flames.

[Diemenz]

People hear Feaster says let's win now.
People complain.
People want a rebuild.
Calgary drafts a player who will come in right when the older players contracts expire and the rebuild can start.
People complain.
All of a sudden people want to win now.

I'm beginning to think some people just like to complain no matter what happens.

[saskflames69]

Originally Posted by mrdonkey

Seems like everyone on HF and Twitter hates this move and is laughing at the Flames. As usual.

They laughed at us on draft day..

..now all they can do is bury their playoff hopes and dreams.

[Lt.Spears]

Originally Posted by Yakbutter

You probably never even heard this kids name before today. Your crystal ball says 4 years? Thanks for letting us know.

Just like you, but the collective CP braintrust will now claim him the steal of the draft and an excellent choice.

[JayP]

Originally Posted by icarus

Reminds me of another Weisbrod pick when he was with Boston, completely off the board at the time: Patrice Bergeron.

LMAO. Weisbrod wasn't even the GM of the Magic yet when Bergeron was drafted.

The amount of credit that guy gets for no results (yet hopefully) is ridiculous.

[flames_1987]

The Flames are in a position where if you're not picking top 5, I say you go for the high ceiling, high risk/ high reward guy. People on here complained about the Flames needing top end talent, it seems pretty unanimous among the people who actually watch these young players for a living, that this kid has an incredibly high ceiling.