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Originally Posted by SebC
Once each, and no.
Luckily we live in an age where we have access to scouting reports and statistics, so I can have an opinion without having to personally watch QMJHL and NCAA games.
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So you can tell how a player stacks up against another through a scouting report? You can tell how far along a player is against another through this same scouting report?
What do these scouting reports have to say about Jankowski's development over the past season? The previous reports said the biggest knocks against him were his size and adjusting to a much superior league. Jankowski is now about the same size as Monahan. Disaster averted. Jankowski adjusted quite well to the college game and has a great second half of the season, finishing only six points off the team lead and finishing top four, trailing players three to five years his senior, while playing four less games. In fact, Jankowski's performance and production was superior to that of Corbin Knight when he was a freshman, so it seems his adjustment was quite successful. Disaster averted again.
All this hand wringing over Jankowski is completely blown out of proportion. The kid is a whole month older than Monahan and appears to be at the same skill and developmental level based on the prospects camp. All this stuff of him being 4+ years away is a bunch of BS dreamed up by the talking heads who were left looking stupid on draft day a year ago. They didn't know this kid, hadn't seen him, and decided that he was an off the board pick that needed years of development, and that narrative has stuck with joe fan. This is why I like to judge these kids based on what they do after their draft year and how the development of their game is. Monahan, Poirier and Klimchuk were just at their first camp and were told what they have to work on. Let's see what improvement they make in their respective games before we call them our best prospects. Your best prospects are the ones who have shown continued growth and success each and every year, not the ones who just had their name called. The new guys hold promise, but have to live up to that promise to prove worthy of their draft position.