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Originally Posted by Pierre "Monster" McGuire
I love how civil this thread is now that all the reactionary, immature little kids are gone.
Now we can have intelligent disagreements on whether this was a good or bad pick without name calling and multiple "#" signs.
Personally, I like the pick. I'm cautiously optimistic about Jankowski. He's a year younger than everyone else and he's only just going to the USHL now while everyone else is leaving it.
Feaster and co. are gamblers. No doubt about it.
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in my opinion you have probably the best evaluation on AHL players on CP and you have seen plenty come and go and the AHL is full of skilled fwds with good vision that are being held back from the NHL because of primarily a few inchs of height and a few lbs of wieght.
Size, skating, speed, hockey sense and heart are JMO what makes an NHL player.
From all accounts Jankowski has height, speed, hockey sense, skating and skill.
But he is unproven at a level of competition that the other 1st round picks have proven they can alredy and have been competing at.
I would have been happy with a gamble pick like this in the 2nd or 3rd.