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Originally Posted by Steve Bozek
I am amazed at the lengths CP posters will go to, to find a way to vilify Mark Jankowski in seemingly unrelated threads.
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Fine, a league where Jake Virtanen is a first line winger. My point was average players were 2nd liners in the 70’s and current AHLers and ECHLers were 3rd and 4th liners. In 74/75 there were 33 teams between the WHA and the NHL and they more or less took players from one country, with a side helping of the USA and a bit of Europe. I suspect if you took the top 66 point producing centres from that year, 60 were from Canada. Last year Jankowski would have easily been in the top 60 Canadian centres in the nhl, so if the talent distribution was the same today, he moves up to a second line center. Ovi would have scored many more goals against such a diluted league. It was not meant to be a shot at Jankowski.