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Confirmed Trade: [CAR/NSH] Mark Jankowski for 2025 fifth round

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I would say he has played more often at wing than center for the Preds, although sometimes he comes in for draws over younger guys (Novak, Svechkov, etc).

Whatever his underlying numbers, I'm just glad the Preds jettisoned at least one of these tweeners with term. Would have been nice to clean house and see McCarron and Smith move too, but getting Jankowski out the door is at least one more slot opened up for a younger player.

It's not that he's terrible per se... whatever the underlying numbers... he could be a serviceable hard-working depth forward. The problem for us in Nashville is that we've been employing way too many of these kinds of guys in place of the younger players we should have been devoting opportunity to instead. He'll be ok as a #12/13 forward, you just don't want to have 5 versions of the same guy in your lineup every night.
 
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Porter Stoutheart said:
I would say he has played more often at wing than center for the Preds, although sometimes he comes in for draws over younger guys (Novak, Svechkov, etc).

Whatever his underlying numbers, I'm just glad the Preds jettisoned at least one of these tweeners with term. Would have been nice to clean house and see McCarron and Smith move too, but getting Jankowski out the door is at least one more slot opened up for a younger player.

It's not that he's terrible per se... whatever the underlying numbers... he could be a serviceable hard-working depth forward. The problem for us in Nashville is that we've been employing way too many of these kinds of guys in place of the younger players we should have been devoting opportunity to instead. He'll be ok as a #12/13 forward, you just don't want to have 5 versions of the same guy in your lineup every night.
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Our young guys are way more unpolished than Nashville's are, and unlike you guys, we're still contending. Jankowski's a much better fit here.
 
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Still remember Jay Feaster saying this guy was going to be the best player from that draft.

Or something like that wasn't it? lol
 
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Flames placed undue pressure on him because of that. If he had went where projected (3rd round) he would be the exact player he is now.
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Most projections had him in the 2nd round and there have been multiple reports saying other teams were planning to take him in the 1st round. But Feaster 100% should have kept his yap shut.

Most forwards taken in the mid-1sts are more often than not bottom six forwards too, which is exactly what he is. That draft was also wildly unpredictable in hindsight, almost half of the guys taken in round 1 aren't in the NHL anymore, or never really were, only 5 or 6 2nd rounders are NHL regulars... and the top 2 players taken in that draft were goalies.

Seems like the perfect draft to take a wild swing, even in retrospect.

I always liked Jankowski and think he'd have developed into a solid 3rd liner that was a PK specialist if Bill Peters hadn't buried him when he was with the Flames. After that, he never looked the same for us and it's taken him a bit to get back to being an NHL regular.
 
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