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Originally Posted by puckedoff
I may be drunk, but I think with the way that Jankowski can pass the puck and be in the right spot, he could hang on the wing with the Monahan/Gaudreau
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What Monahan/Gaudreau have needed and do need is a power forward who can win board battles, get them the puck, crash the net, pot some garbage goals. A Tkachuk, a Brouwer, a Ferland (if he develops more) is the type of player they need. They don't need a playmaking winger who isn't strong on the boards.
Jankowski is a big, playmaking centre who is good on face-offs. You don't move that type of player to the wing, doesn't make any sense. Big playmaking centres are hard to find and valuable.
If the Flames were to move any of their centres to the wing (Backlund, Monahan, Bennett, Jankowski) then Bennett is the one who's game most suits the wing position. He is strong on the boards, feisty, has outside speed to burn some defensemen. I'm not advocating moving Bennett to the wing but his game suits the wing position a whole lot more than Jankowski's game does. Jankowski is clearly a playmaking centre.