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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
I doubt there's any team in the league that would call up "the AHL's leading scorer" and insert him directly on the first line.
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Teams put prospects in positions to succeed immediately all the time. Cole Caufield. Alex DeBrincat. Hell, Cale Makar was right out of College when he immediately replaced Tyson Barrie on the Avs. We do not lose the Avs series if the Avs had a double standard for prospects.
The way the Flames have handled Ruzicka, Kylington, Bennett, Phillips, etc is pretty isolated to the Flames. Just double standards applied for their mediocre favourites versus guys stuck in an endless cycle of "can't prove it until you prove it but not allowed to prove it because you have not proven it"
And don't give me that BS about Phillips being an older prospect. He's been deserving better since his initial callup back in spring 2021. And that's only because he had a major injury in 2020 just as he was earning a callup.
The Flames refused to play Phillips and Kylington in meaningless games because the Flames did what the Flames do, which is value Nikita Nesterov types for no justifiable reason and write books on players who have never had a chance to even fail.