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Originally Posted by bigbadboss101

Monahan got lucky. If Backlund was playing with Johnny he would be the $6M guy. Not a fan of Monnny.

yup. Scoring 22 goals as a 19 year old rookie (while Johnny was still in college) was pure luck.

nice article in the Herald about Jankowski. The kid certainly has a great attitude:

“If he loses the puck battle, for instance, in practice, I usually have a comment for him — a quieter comment, sometimes — about how he’s going to need to be harder or stronger on his stick,” Huska said. “And I don’t want to say his eyes go back, but the next time he does something, he makes sure he’s hard on pucks. It’s like he wants to prove people wrong, at times. That’s where I’m seeing more of that competitive side come out.

“If you show him why and show him what we’re hoping to get him to accomplish by doing these things that we’re asking him to work on, and if he doesn’t do it and you call him on it, he gets mad. I think he gets mad at himself. But he also has a bit of that attitude like, ‘Fine, I’ll show you.’ And the next time, I think he’s a better player because of it.”

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“For me, I don’t really worry about points that much,” Jankowski said. “I go into every game just thinking I’m trying to do whatever I can to help the team win, whether it be a goal or an assist or a blocked shot. The points are coming right now, so obviously that’s great. But as long as I’m playing a good 200-foot game and helping my team win, I think that’s the important thing.”

http://calgaryherald.com/sports/hock...-an-extra-edge