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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
If they go with:
Lindholm
Backlund
Ruzicka
Phillips
down the middle, they are a bubble team
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Aren't they currently the top team in the Pacific with those same top-six centres? Didn't Ruzicka play a significant stretch at 3C on this top team?
Really the only significant difference there is going from Lewis/Monahan to Phillips, which I agree is weird because Phillips has almost exclusively been a RW as a pro. If you shifted Phillips to wing and signed a younger upgrade on Lewis to play 4C for less than a million, though ... you're probably just fine.
And the only way for Phillips to prove he's anything in the NHL is to actually play in the NHL (although I agree, not at centre). He's earned a shot with his AHL production. In this thread already we've seen people slot a far inferior player in Walker Duehr onto the roster...