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Originally Posted by dying4acup
While it's not likely, I still see no evidence from the limited viewing I have seen, and arguments I have heard, that Jankowski can't become a top line centre.
He is big. He is fast. He has good hands. He has good hockey sense. He is good/great defensively. He is good/great on faceoffs.
That doesn't mean he will live up to that. It means that we don't know anything yet. It means we need to wait and see.
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Yup. You look at this prospect without any of the draft-day context or Feaster Kool Aid and he looks pretty damned solid:
-Centre
-6'4"
-200lbs and growing (according to him and his Twitter)
-great skating
-very intelligent, especially defensively
-soft hands like butter
-great on faceoffs
-NCAA Champion
One of the only prospects in the 2012 draft who still has some offensive upside. Though we have recently acquired two marquee centre icemen via early draft choices, it's easy to forget that this type of player does not grow on trees.
The haters just want us to keep their opinion fresh in our memories so that they can post celebratory Gifs if/when Jankowski busts out. What a pathetic existence as a sports fan. Trolls gonna troll.