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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
Yes but show me where it says jooris was ever pumped up to be a top prospect? It's hardly a twisted perspective to ask for any sort of offensive progression in a first round pick. Go ahead and blame it all on the system though and see where that gets you. I'm certainly not asking for ppg plus numbers here.
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I dont think the point was that Jooris was ever pumped up to be a top prospect. The point is that a player in a defensive system with mediocre numbers in college can be productive offensively in the NHL; as Jooris has been.
At this point I am cheering for Jankowski a bit more than any other prospect of ours. Mostly because I cant wait for all the impatient negative 'fans' who have doubted him since the beginning to eat their words. He is a good player and has progressed about as good as we could hope in terms of gaining size, learning how to play a 2 way game and even consistently upping his scoring production since his freshman season. I dont know what some people want?
Maybe this is all because in retrospect people feel like we should have taken someone else in the draft like Maata, but who knows? Dont forget we got Sieloff in that trade down and he and Jankowski still need time before we can even say that was a bad move by Feaster.
This kid doesnt get a fair chance from a lot of fans because he is to them, only ours as a result of a wiesbrod and feaster screw up. Not fair to Janko - he is a good prospect!