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Originally Posted by druetetective
last 2 games he's been under 50% on FO's. Anyone know if he faced strong centers or still just a work in progress? I know it's a small sample size but I thought that was one of the more polished aspects of his game? Did I read last year he was over 70% or is my mind wishful thinking?
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Not sure about 70% over the whole season, but yes he has been traditionally strong in faceoffs in the past seasons.
First 2 games he got crushed by Sean Kuraly (prospect that San Jose sent to Boston as part of the Martin Jones trade). Kuraly is known to be excellent in faceoffs, however a few times he did get away from Kuraly and won the faceoff that led directly to goals.
Not sure about the Holy Cross game, but he was much better in faceoffs compared to Miami (48% vs the ~30% against Miami)
Another thing to keep in mind was that Providence had some options other than Jankowski last year with Mauermann and Accari to take faceoffs, so if he didn't match well with a particular C, they had some other decent faceoff men.
Will keep an eye on it.