I don't pretend to know exactly how the current Flames management values Jankowski. However, I do feel strongly that if they draw a line in the sand on playing a couple of games this year and burning a year off his ELC and don't budge it gives us a pretty good idea. If that is the hill they choose to die on then we know that there evaluation of the player is only slightly more than a second round pick in this draft.
Maybe they feel that the extra second, which would give us 4 in total (likely Dallas isn't a top 4 team) has as much value as Jankowksi. You could certainly make some moves with 2 firsts and three seconds or one first and 4 seconds.
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