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Could be Darryl trolling the media who have been wondering about Phillips.

Let's wait and see what happens in the last two games.

Ruzicka just played his first game last night and he was even called up earlier when the Flames were still in the battle.

Darryl's got a pretty good eye for young talent that he's actually seen up close (can't say the same about the draft and young junior prospects though). In his career, I can't think of a young prospect who left his teams (San Jose, Chicago, Calgary, LA) and broke out. I remember we were pretty upset when he traded Saprykin and that was a guy who played regularly in the playoffs and scored one of the bigger OT goals in franchise history.

By all accounts, Phillips is one of the hardest working guys so the "earned part" doesn't make sense. I can't see Phillips not busting his ass in practice.