{"id":88664,"date":"2020-10-09T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=88664"},"modified":"2020-10-09T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T18:51:00","slug":"mark-jankowski-signs-with-pittsburgh-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/10\/09\/mark-jankowski-signs-with-pittsburgh-penguins\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Jankowski Signs with Pittsburgh Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/jankoma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Jankowski<\/a><\/strong> has signed a one-year deal worth $700,000 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/penguins\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> on Friday. This deal will carry him through the 2020\u201321 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One year at $700,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rd7laNBR3j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/rd7laNBR3j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNBobMcKenzie\/status\/1314635457829965827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pittsburgh Penguins Sign Mark Jankowski<\/h2>\n<p>Jankowski was a fourth-line centre on the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/flames\/\" target=\"_self\">Calgary Flames<\/a>, and was not too impactful offensively. In 56 games played with the Flames last season, Jankowski had five goals and two assists for seven points. This last season was a large drop off from his 14 -goal, 18-assist, and 32-point season last year. The Corsi percentage for Jankowski&#8217;s play was 48%, with a relative Corsi of -3.6. His faceoff percentage was 44.8% last season, a large drop from the 52% in the 2018\u201319 season. Over his four year career, he has scored 36 goals, had 28 assists for 64 points. His career Corsi percentage is 50.4%, with a relative Corsi of -3.3. He has about 60 penalties in minutes in his four years.<\/p>\n<h3>Looking to the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Mark Jankowski, 26, signing with the Penguins is a questionable move, considering he is essentially useless offensively and is very poor at the dot. With the Penguins in a difficult spot, they are looking to get some younger pieces for their re-tool.\u00a0 Even though he is signed at league minimum, this is not a great move for the Penguins. This roster spot could have been taken by a prospect who could prove to be their next 30-goal scorer. Jankowski was likely given this deal based on his performance the previous two years as opposed to this last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins are hoping he can bounce back to his 15-goal past self, providing them the scoring boost they need. Trading away <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hornqpa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Patric Hornqvist<\/strong><\/a> has left a hole in the Penguins&#8217; offensive capabilities, so they are hoping Jankowski can partially stem the bleeding. Looking at the Mark Jankowski signing as a whole, it is not a miserably terrible signing, but a roster spot that could end up backfiring on the Penguins management.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"RYHp2ZyqQlBLgxOnXmyXUQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1194560070\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'RYHp2ZyqQlBLgxOnXmyXUQ',sig:'UKFQ9QiZgyFMPTL7HwZ_10NGJkk5-zQycONQcDJbHY8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1194560070',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Jankowski has signed a one-year deal worth $700,000 with the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday. This deal will carry him through the 2020\u201321 season. One year at $700,000. https:\/\/t.co\/rd7laNBR3j &mdash; Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) October 9, 2020 Pittsburgh Penguins Sign Mark Jankowski Jankowski was a fourth-line centre on the Calgary Flames, and was not too impactful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":88675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,22,4547,4548,12],"tags":[1423,662,44],"class_list":["post-88664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-flames","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-penguins","tag-mark-jankowski","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-pittsburgh-penguins"],"modified_by":"Nik Kowalski, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}