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More on that in a moment.

But first, back to Huska’s comment about his competitive streak.

It’s not that anyone was questioning Jankowski’s give-a-hoot when he arrived in Stockton at the end of March, having just completed his senior campaign with the NCAA’s Providence Friars and with the ink barely dry on an entry-level contract with the Flames.

It’s just that you could tell the youngster was anxious to simply blend in, soaking up everything he could learn about the business of professional puck.

You know, eyes and ears.

And as he has settled in …

“If he loses the puck battle, for instance, in practice, I usually have a comment for him — a quieter comment, sometimes — about how he’s going to need to be harder or stronger on his stick,” Huska said. “And I don’t want to say his eyes go back, but the next time he does something, he makes sure he’s hard on pucks. It’s like he wants to prove people wrong, at times. That’s where I’m seeing more of that competitive side come out.

“If you show him why and show him what we’re hoping to get him to accomplish by doing these things that we’re asking him to work on, and if he doesn’t do it and you call him on it, he gets mad. I think he gets mad at himself. But he also has a bit of that attitude like, ‘Fine, I’ll show you.’ And the next time, I think he’s a better player because of it.”

A seven-game point streak at the minor-league level won’t silence the doubters who figure the Flames’ past regime was really reaching when they selected Jankowski in the first round of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, but it’s an encouraging sign nonetheless.