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Originally Posted by blankall
it's a huge factor. Making the NHL as a bottom 6 player is considerably easier than cracking a top 6 role. For bottom six roles, you're competing against guys like Lewis and potentially Lucic. For the top six role, the competition is much stiffer. At it's easiest you need to push a guy like Coleman out of that role, but even then Colemen brings more grit and can do things like crash the net, so Coleman has more potential top 6 roles he can perform.
Basically a player like Phillips has the role of high end playmaker available to him, and that's about it. So he has to out compete all the other high end playmakers, and probable be noticeably better than them at playmaking as he has little versatility.
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That's exactly what I said