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Originally Posted by kyuss275
Haha. I’m a bigger fan of Phillips than most and there is no way he deserves to date ,a 10 day tryout with big club. I do however thought he deserved another pre-season game and go from there. It is what it is , and I won’t lose any sleep over his demotion.
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I think Sutter saw all he needed to in the last game. I know the assist on Stone's OT winner in the split squad game has really played well here, but that was a unicorn point. Not many times you're going to see a 4-on-3 PP where there was so much ice for a player to exploit. In the last game played for Phillips he was a non-entity for two of three periods, getting scored on twice, one where the primary assist came from his man where he had poor gap control, and the other with the Flames on the PP and he showed little hustle to try and get back defensively. Sutter is all about play on both sides of the puck and play hard every shift. Phillips had the up hill climb and did himself no favors in his appearances IMO. He needed to stand out for good reasons and he never really did in the way he needed to. I think if they were going to give him another game it would have been in the Edmonton game.