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Originally Posted by Parallex
It's different. Jankowski is a gamble for multiple reasons...
A: He was drafted out of a league even lower then Junior A,
B: lacked an NHL body due to rapid height growth without the accompanying mass,
C: Was a 2nd round projection
Chucko played in a well-scouted college feeder league, had an established NHL sized body, was considered 1st round talent by scouting organizations. If Chucko was a greater gamble then you usually find in the 20-30 slots it was only slight. Chucko wasn't close to the gamble that Jankowski is. Drafting Kris Chucko in my mind had about as much risk as drafting JT Compher would this year, and I don't think any of the TSN draft guys would call us drafting JT Compher a legandary pick.
The Flames reached for Jankowski... they didn't reach for Chucko.
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That Chucko was less of a gamble than Jankowski, doesn't mean he wasn't a gamble. There was lots of questioning after the Chucko pick. It was hardly a consensus pick. IIRC Chucko, on most lists, was rated to go in the second round, same as Jankowski. One thing that worries me is that we had hints that Darryl was looking at Zajac and Chucko just as we have hints that Feaster is looking at the Russian. I'm tired of these gambles.
Compher is rated as a first rounder, he played for a good US national team. I don't think Chucko got a smell of our national team.
I take it that your ignoring of the other players I rated as gambles, you now agree were gambles.