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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Yeah I know what a tweener is. I find it really disingenuous to qualify him as that before he's played a single NHL game. Kolanos got 151 NHL chances.
Phillips is ridiculously talented and I think could easily make many of the same impacts that Mangiapane makes. Expecting him to come in and be a Johnny clone is unreasonable. But he's the best distributor on the team by a mile and he doesn't shy away from anyone.
He's 22. Very, very early to be speaking in steadfastly negative terms about anybody, particularly as this league continues to shift smaller.
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Who do you take out of the lineup to get Phillips into the game? Remember the roles that players are assigned. You can't randomly identify someone and say Phillips in for Nordstrom, failing to recognize their roles are dramatically different and responsibilities in different areas of the game. You put Phillips into the game who comes out?