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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Highly unlikely. Phillips has Europe written all over him. You should just acknowledge there are AHL star players and Matthew Phillips' size makes him nothing but that. Phillips would be the smallest player in the modern era - and save all the crazy roster listings that inflate what he really is. Compare him to Pelletier, and he's clearly 2-3 inches shorter than the 5'9" Jacob Pelletier, and measurably slighter in his stature. The guy needs a milk crate to look most of the female reporters in the eye let alone staring an NHL defenseman in anything but the middle of their chests. Phillips is an AHL player. His size makes him that. The odds of him earning a one-way NHL contract are about the same as the Flames drafting Connor Bedard. Not zero, but so unlikely it it is not worth discussing.
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A whopping 1 inch shorter and 5 lbs lighter than Gaudreau.
If his size really is as big of an issue as you say it is, and the team always had its mind made up that he was never going to be an NHLer, why have the Flames kept him in their system for as long as they have?