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Originally Posted by Flamesfan05
Ok maybe bust is the wrong word but do you really think Jankowski was a success?
I am not arguing for the hockey news but Jankowski is not a good example to use for your drafting skill.
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Honestly it was.
If you look at the back half or third of the first round for say 2005-2010 you'll see a bunch of players play 500-600 games and a bunch play 100 ... he's played 350 to date and would pretty much count as an average result in that time frame.
At 6'5" and soft hands ... he had a chance to be a home run. Didn't happen, but it wasn't a whiff.
I just wish they would have acquired say Columbus' 2nd round pick instead of taking him at 21. Montreal was apparently set to take him in the second from some reports at the time.
The players selected between 21 and Montreal's pick at 33 included some NHLers that are similar to Jankowski, but not many that blow him out of the water (Maatta, Matheson, Skjei and Pearson are the only NHLers).
It really wasn't that much of a fail, especially since they got a 2nd rounder out of it.