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Originally Posted by T@T
Seriously?
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“Best player on the team,” Amerks forward Cody McCormick said. “Best player on the ice.”
"[Girgensons and Larsson] were probably our best forwards from start to finish in this series" - Chadd Cassidy, Amerk's head coach
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he scored 3 insignificant goals while they were getting crushed in a 1st round sweep.
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Just so I'm 100% clear on what you're saying... a game-tying goal in a playoff elimination game, a game that then goes to overtime, is a meaningless goal? That's what you're saying?
The other two goals were his team's first goal of the series, and the second was also a tying goal. Yes, the Amerk's got crushed and swept, they only scored 5 goals in a 3 game series. 60% of them were scored by Girgensons. And contrary to being meaningless goals, every single one of them was "clutch" (a series opener, and 2 game-tying goals)
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Girgensons potental is most likely a 3 line center and you would trade both Jankowski and Seiloff for him? 
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Guess how many full-time NHL defencemen drafted in the last 15 years had worse major-junior production than Sieloff? Well, if Mark Fistric finds another NHL job (after being flipped for a 5th rounder and then not renewed by the *Edmonton Oilers*), then the answer will be... ONE. If you can think the game at the level needed to be an NHLer, you can put up points in juniors. Historically, the chances of any player with Sieloff's box stats ever becoming an impact player in the NHL are approximately 0%.
I have never heard anyone outside of CP mention Jankowski without using words like "high risk", "long-term project", etc.
The consensus on Girgensons is that he is a virtual lock to be an NHLer, probably on the middle two lines. I think he will most likely be a 2nd or 3rd liner.
Nobody has ever said that Jankowski is a lock to be an NHLer. In fact, he was considered a riskier-than-normal pick at a draft position that has a 50-60% chance of landing any kind of NHLer. Meaning that he "most likely" wont even stick in the big show. And he's done nothing spectacular since then to suggest he's beating the odds (yet, he still has time of course). Thats the whole reason why he's considered high risk. Because he "most likely" wont be a 1st or 2nd liner. If he was "most likely" to be a 1st or 2nd liner, he wouldn't be high-risk, he'd be a blue-chipper.
I think Jankowski is most likely to be a replacement-level NHLer at best.
I think Seiloff will most likely never see the NHL full-time.
I think Girgensons will most likely be a 2nd or 3rd liner.
So yeah, I would gladly make that trade any day of the week.