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Originally Posted by Sofa GM
At the end of the last Trade thread lots of talk of graduating up guys like Phillips, Ruzicka and Gawdin…… we have way too positive of light on our prospects. These guys are PTO fodder in the rest of the league guys come on. Gawdin is a plug, looked completely lost in the time he got into the line up. Probably need to give another brief, and very brief, look at Phillips. Everyone always compares him to other small guys such as Yamamoto or Caufield, but he isn’t in that class. He isn’t strong enough on this skates relative to those other guys so probably won’t be able to transition to the NHL. These are a group of career AHLers, let’s accept that and quit putting them on pedestals like they are the next group of saviours.
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You're not wrong, but keep in mind that after Maniapane's first 10 NHL games there were people on this board who said the similar things about him.
These kids just got their first taste of NHL hockey. I wanna see how they respond to that, and see if they can continue to grow, before I write them all off.