I liked that Janko pick a lot too, he was such a fun player to watch develop with how far he came and the consistent improvement for about 7 years.
When he put up 32 pts and was a positive corsi player, positive +/- in 18/19, after a 17 goal season in 17/18 - I actually thought he was tracking towards 2nd line center territory, he had improved every single year before that and with another step or two saw him becoming a good two way 40-50 pt a year guy.
Then his game just collapsed in 19/20 and he's never really played at that same level again. You wonder what happened there - sometimes there are off ice issues or injuries we don't hear about but looking at his career trajectory there was a clear fork in the road that season. Whole team was bad that year and so maybe he was just sheltered in previous years and couldn't stand up to tougher matchups?
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