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Originally Posted by fotze
So with Jankowski you just can't evaluate the pick for 4 years? Just ignore everything for 4 years. Can you guys let us know what day we can start evaluating it?
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In his first season, he was okay for someone making that much of a jump. He has improved his skating, physicality, offensive results, showing the ability to make high end plays and create offense by himself. Additionally, he is also getting bigger both in height and weight (he's 6-4 now, not 6-3).
With a prospect like this, all you can look at is for him to make positive steps forward and not stagnate or regress. Over the past year and a half, he has improved overall along the way and is getting better.
If you consider Monahan's skills as a 9/10, Jankowski was a 7.5-8 at the development camp. Not quite as good, but not bad in his own right, especially considering that they are only a month apart age wise. Janko still has to improve, quite a bit actually, but it is feasible that he could do that over the next two years. Just have to wait and see.
If he hits his potential, you have a 6-4 center that'll play at around 220 lbs that can be a good all round C. That's a very good piece to have if it works out properly.