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Originally Posted by Red Menace
The ironic thing is that if Jankowski develops to a point where he decides it's in his best interest to become a UFA, 80% of these posters defending him today will turn on him instantly and say he was never that good to begin with.
The same way Sven has been re-branded by the mob.
As always, I hope for the best and would love to see him Flames colours one day.
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Jankowski and Baertschi along with Reinhart were re-branded by Monahan, Gaudreau, Bennett, Jooris, Brodie and Bouma.
When Baertschi and Jankowski were first drafted by the Flames they were basically the only prospects in the organizations. The Flames fans were accustomed to low expectation and a long slow development process for prospects ending in failure. Chucko, Pelech, Neimicz, Boyd, Breen all were supposed to have painfully long development processes before they blossomed into legitimate Flames.
Then along came Monahan, Gaudreau, Bennett, Jooris, Brodie, Ferland and Bouma and they spent at most a full season in the AHL and on to their NHL careers.
It is very rare that the 5 year plan ends up with NHL stardom.
Even a relative slow developer like undrafted Giordano only spent 2 years in the AHL and played 48 NHL games when he was 22.