The size, the skill, the hockey sense …
All impossible to miss during Mark Jankowski’s eight-game appetizer last spring with the Calgary Flames’ top affiliate in Stockton, Calif.
Other traits, though, weren’t so immediately apparent.
“The one thing that I’m starting to see a little bit more of that I didn’t necessarily see last year is he’s a really competitive young man,” said Ryan Huska, groomer of Calgary’s up-and-comers as head coach for the American Hockey League’s Stockton Heat. “In practice, it comes out a lot. In games, it comes out a lot. And I think that’s one of the reasons, too, why he has found some of that offensive success.