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Originally Posted by Karl
As bad as the bottom 6 has been and as awful as Bennett has been, Janko is far and away the biggest problem on this team right now.
He needs to not play NHL games for now.
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Jankowski hasn't been great, no question. But fans need to relax there as well. So far this season - a whole 5 games in - the Flames haven't been firing on all cylinders, and haven't been winning enough. SO fans want to lay blame. But the fact is that there have been a lot of players that haven't been great so far:
Jankowski
Bennett
Backlund (was better last game, which is incouraging
Lucic (and Neal has been hot, so people are angry about that)
Ryan
Frolik
Mangiapane has been inconsistent
Tkachuk has been inconsistent
In other words, the Flames haven't been great so far. But people need to relax with the finger pointing and the 'this guy isn't an NHLer' refrain.
It's been 5 games. They are a deep team and none of the players listed above are as bad as some fans are currently trying to make them out to be.