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Originally Posted by New Era
Well, except for be one of our best penalty killers and providing any level of threat on that 4th line. Hard to produce with 6-8 minutes of ice time. We'll see if he's in the pressbox or not come game time, but if he's sitting it confirms a concern about Peters.
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It doesn't confirm any concern about Peters. It establishes a meritocracy is all it does.
You earn your ice time. You aren't given it.
There's nothing wrong with sitting a young player to kick start him. It's not like Peters lives in some vacuum and doesn't know who Jankowski is. It's not like Treliving and Conroy aren't telling him about Jankowski's potential. If we know about Janko, Peters knows about Janko. It's funny how posters sometimes think that they have more information than coaches.
Hartley sat Gaudreau after he did nothing in his first 6 games. It didn't mean that Hartley didn't know Gaudreau's potential.
Derek Ryan hasn't been great in the preseason and first two games, but he's been better than Jankowski. He's contributed more than Jankowski; however, marginal that is. He's been effective in faceoffs and that is useful for a coach that preaches possession. That is the problem though, Jankowski should be significantly more impactful a player than Derek Fricken Ryan. It shouldn't even be close. The fact that Ryan has been more impactful and useful than Jankowski shows just how bad he's been.
Some posters are just too eager to coddle young players and ignore their poor play.
I'd love to see Jankowski be the second line centre on this team but the fact is Jankowski hasn't deserved more ice time. It's as simple as that.