First round draft pick gets first NHL call up after very strong start in the AHL.

Three wins below .500 is not where the Calgary Flames expected their club to be at this stage of the season and now they are starting to make significant moves to attempt to turn things around. The big announcement on Friday was that former 2012 first round pick Mark Jankowski has been called up to the National Hockey League for the first time in his professional career.

He was a controversial pick of general manager Jay Feaster at the time but it seems that Jankowski's strong start in the American Hockey League, where he has three goals and nine assists in 13 games with the Stockton Heat has earned him a chance to strut his stuff at the NHL level.

The Flames currently have the worst goal differential in the entire National Hockey League with an ugly -18, a number that's made even worse when you consider the fact that it's only taken them 22 games to get there. The hope obviously here seems to be that Jankowski will give them a solid depth option up the middle and perhaps show an ability to set up his teammates the way he was in Stockon this season.

Here's Jankowski talking about his first NHL experience.

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