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Originally Posted by kehatch
If he was drafted in 2013 he would have been the same age with similar experience to that draft class. Where would he have went in that draft class?
The fact that he was young and inexperienced when we drafted him is irrelevant now.
Burke would almost certainly trade him for any of the guys the Flames passed on. The other teams almost certainly wouldn't accept that trade.
Time to stop thinking of him as a special case. He was. He isn't now. And at this point in time drafting him appears to be a big mistake.
Exactly. All of these guys claim on one hand they didn't drink the Feaster Kool-Aid than claim on the other that Jankowski some how has a higher ceiling than the rest of the draft class.
Two years from now people will be hiding in the bush whispering '' any time now'' waiting for him to reach this hypothetical ceiling to be the '' best player in the draft'' (sip, sip, gulp, gulp)
Jankowski might be an NHLer. But so might Teravainan. Many of his draft class already are. It was an unnecessary gamble at a time the Flames couldn't afford to gamble and so far it looks like it isn't going to break even let alone payoff.
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Why are you speaking in certainties on matters we don't know about.
We have no idea if Burke would trade him or not for one of the players they passed on.
More importantly just because someone has a different opinion then yours doesn't mean you need to dismiss it as "drinking the koolaid". We have far more intelligent posters on the site - they don't just take one comment from a GM and base all their future posts on that one comment.
I think there are valid points to both sides of this argument so I don't know why people have to take such extreme view points.
It is pretty clear by your post you aren't taking much of an effort to read or understand what others are saying.