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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I never figured out exactly what Feaster's logic was in going off the board with Jankowski. Not only that, but Feaster adamantly believed he would be the best player drafted that year.
He seems like a good sized player and a fringe NHLer but Feaster thought he was a superstar. In 10 years, Feaster predicted, “Jankowski will be viewed as the best player in the 2012 draft,”
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Well, it wasn't so much Feaster as it was Weisbrod, although, the scouts all appeared to agree with him (also remember that Craig Button also had him ranked as a mid-first rounder, and the Button brothers apparently don't talk about prospects).
However, the logic as it was explained by Feaster is that they were looking for a top end player, a potential legitimate #1 centre (something Calgary hadn't had in nearly 20 years).
Although they knew that there were other prospects in that range with a higher low-end, they believed that Jankowski's high-end potential was significantly higher than the other players who were available and worth taking the risk that he'd bust out for the chance to have him if he developed as they hoped he would.