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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
When did this happen? He has three NHL games under his belt and played sheltered minutes in all of those. When has he shown he can keep his head above anything in the NHL?
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This just isn't true.
His sample size is non existent, but when he did play he spent 65% of his time with Mikael Backlund and wasn't sheltered at all.
He had the lowest ice time split against bottom NHLers of any forward on the roster last year at 30.5%. His split against elite was 2nd on the team behind Andrew Mangiapane.
Only 12.5 minutes of ice time, but they weren't sheltered at all.
Nick Ritchie, Radim Zohorna, Walker Dueher, Trevor Lewis and Milan Lucic were sheltered.
Phillips wasn't.