I generally liked Jarnkrok in Calgary, but he just didn't click offensively at all. Not sure if it was Sutter's system (some players simply perform better in one system over another), or maybe didn't gel with linemates - but it wasn't like he didn't get his offensive chances. He just couldn't bury them.
My comparable for how his time was spent in Calgary was much like the other photoshoot of "3 Fishing Buddies" - the one with Norstrom instead of Jarnkrok. Funny how that worked out. Jarnkrok was a slower, less physical and better passing Nordstrom in his time here. Kind of forgettable, but definitely not awful. Just didn't click. You expected them both to click (and quite honestly, I thought Nordstrom started to look much better under Sutter when Sutter took over, and I expected him to re-sign actually).
Hope Jarnkrok does well in Toronto. He just didn't seem to have any success here at all (decent defensively though).
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