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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
The evaluation has to go beyond points, which is where you assess if you give a guy more time or not. Nothing I saw from Gawdin or Ruzicka told me that they are going to be anything more than a tweener. Good at the AHL, not good enough for the NHl.
if they are going to call someone up, I would give someone else a crack (Phillips or Pelletier)
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I think if Ruzicka could demonstrate he could play at the pace that Sutter insists on he'd get a longer look, production or not. To date he hasn't. Guessing they are working with him in practice on that.
Gawdin in the early games this year just seemed behind the NHL speed when it came to making decisions.
With that said I'm all for giving Philipps a look, just not sure now is the time with the team finally having the top nine forwards on the top three lines and Phillips not really suitable for the fourth line.