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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Did Kylington spend the entirety of camp playing with Tanev? I honestly don't remember, but I don't think that is right. My recollection is that he played in almost every preseason game, which means that he was on several different pairings through camp.
Well, that is not exactly true. Ruzicka centred the Flames top line in Edmonton, and was underwhelming. After a very good game in Vancouver Phillips lined up with Kadri at practice. I suspect that there are things the coaches see in practice that we all miss, or don't get the chance to see at all, which factor heavily into their lineup decisions for preseason games. Kylington played so much last year in large part because he had such a great camp. We are seeing much the same from Vladar this year.
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Kylington was underwhelming to start camp last year, until he was put in a position to play with NHL caliber players.
Also its preseason, and Sutter has said so himself you can use a game to try some guys in offensive positions. In Edmonton he just kept rolling out Ruzicka with Huberdeau and Toffoli when he was doing nothing, he could have tried some new lines to mix it up.
It doesn't matter now anyways we have 3 preseason games left, and the team needs to get ready for the season opener the time to mix and match is coming to an end. They decided before camp started that Eakin was making the team regardless of performance and here we are.