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Originally Posted by FlameZilla
No, Jankowski is going to be the big body C who wins faceoffs and shadows the other teams' top lines out of the game. That's what he's being trained to do in Providence and he's learning the role very thoroughly in their D-first system.
The Messier/Otto rivalry was just an individual rivalry which got heated in the BOA. You're painting Joel Otto as if he was a some kind of goon; he was tough, but he was more of a sound positional player who used his size rather than an out-and-out 'destroyer.' It'll be tough for Jankowski to be as good as Otto was, but I don't see why he can't play a similar style (if he puts on 15-20 more pounds).
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I know Joel quite well and I can tell you he wishes he had had the offensive talents that a kid like Jankowski has.
He also still wishes he had calf muscles
his legs are nicknamed "out of bounds" as in the markers!
