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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
If you haven't moved past the bolster and bravado of Feaster and Weisbrod you're doing yourself a disservice. It's best to throw away any and all (even your own) expectations and just allow a player to develop. Matt Stajan, Mikael Backlund, Joe Colborne a few of many names that don't live up to draft hype and expectations but end up being serviceable key cogs to their teams.
Kari Ramo was one of two best goalies outside the NHL Jay Feaster wax poetic about. Kari Ramo was not a world beater and didn't live up to such lofty levels but he did have a good year and playoffs as a 1a/1b option.
Throw away the chains of expectations or you'll forever be their slave.
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Well you need to have some expectations otherwise why would you draft the player. What I take umbrage with is the over the top expectations of a player, such as currently writing Jankowski in our line up as a sure thing, we just need to wait, just as there were many who took Weisbrod at his word at the time of the draft.
Sure let Jankowski develop to see what we've got but that has never been the way around here and as for taking away all expectations that's just another sign of the downgrading that you have done for Jankowski.