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Originally Posted by Bingo
And I think Mangiapane is a good example. He's bigger, but not NHL sized, did well in the AHL, and was a 6th round pick.
He got the look after basically two full seasons in the AHL and did something with it.
Phillips is on year five now, so certainly behind Mangiapane ... but also through a strange covid window of less games played.
I think he deserves a look for sure. But I think they need a top nine injury or a Ruzicka face plant to make it happen.
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That is not quite the whole story, though. Mangiapane got 10 or 12 games the season before he finally broke in, and he was completely invisible. I and others were convinced after that season that he was probably never going to be a NHL player.
I have learned since the a couple of things: for one thing, scoring in the AHL seldom translates right away to the NHL, and for some players it can take more than one or two cracks to finally make it.
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