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Originally Posted by transplant99
So you are suggesting that the Flames are biased, (irrationally at that) against small players?
The same team that runs out Gaudreau, Mangiapane, Dube, and Ryan on a regular basis....that is the bias showing in this team?
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The same team that can find more games for names like Buddy Robinson, Byron Froese, Josh Leivo and Brett Ritchie, than they can find for Phillips.
The same team that put Paul Byron on waivers so they could keep a roster spot for the likes of Joe Colborne and Brandon Bollig.
Yeah, let's pretend the heights of those players had no bearing on those decisions.
When the Flames put smaller players into the lineup, they do so
reluctantly. Just because they
ultimately find themselves
forced to do these things does not erase the blatant preferential treatment of bigger players.
I don't doubt Phillips can fight his way onto this team's roster, but he's not going to be given the same opportunity that an inferior, bigger player like Ruzicka or Gawdin or Pospisil will inevitably get.
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OK then.
Tell me more how Bennett should be the #1 C on this club too please.
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Things I haven't said in like five years.
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Originally Posted by 868904
Bad word I used. Not emergence like a top 6 player, I mean emergence as a guy who can play as one of the 12 forwards.
I think he's more useful than Leivo and Simon and think he should play ahead of them.
Ideally, I think he should be on that 4th line with Ryan and Bennett. And try Phillips with Gaudreau and Monahan.
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Brett Ritchie has shown nothing that isn't reflective of a tweener. Leivo, for all his warts, still drives shot differentials. Ritchie is all style and no substance.