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Originally Posted by Moneyhands23
Yup. Why draft a player, then invest in him and watch it pay off only to never give him a ####. So dumb
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I'm all for giving Phillips a shot, it's a good story.
But NHL teams draft 7 players a year, sign 4 or 5 of them, send most of the 4 or 5 to the farm and then recall one of them on average if they're lucky.
The whole point is to invest in players that may never get a shot. They don't all earn it.
Has Phillips? I would think so ... body of work of being a solid contributing AHL hockey player, good team guy (organization guy), and now leading the AHL in scoring.