No big surprises with the cuts, but a few things of note:
1. I know there are diverging opinions on him, but I do not think Phillips was given a fair shot. It seems to be suggest that the coaches simply do not believe in him and weren't interested in providing him a comparable opportunity to a guy like Eakin, Ruzicka, or Milano. Disappointing from my perspective. Hopefully he gets a chance somewhere else.
2. Zary going down seemed inevitable since he missed a ton of development time, but I thought he might get a couple more games. I get this one, though. I wonder what they told him because he had a great camp.
3. The Flames went through a ton of turnover this off-season and I understand them wanting to trim this thing down early to start building chemistry. Smart move and I think Sutter did say early on that the last 3 games would have rosters close to starting day line ups.
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