Sutters comments regarding Phillips sounded a bit personal which is odd, either way they weren't encouraging.
It's interesting in sports that we rely on scouting for choosing players and quite often find that scouts are proven to have been wrong once the player is given some NHL icetime.
Yet knowing the system is imperfect it is often relied upon to decide who will become an NHLer from the AHL and who won't, often without giving the player any meaningful NHL icetime.
While it is likely the system is more often right than wrong, it will at times be wrong and begs the question of just how many players could have had NHL careers but never made it out of a specific teams farm?
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