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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Text, I question your recollections as much as I question Bingo's stats.
Matthew Phillips played a grand total of 12:23 of even strength hockey for the Flames last year. A total of 5:41 on the PP. He played 9:21 (1:34 of PP time) in 5-4 loss to the Leafs on December 10th (generating 1 shot on goal) and then 8:43 (4:07 of PP time) in a 2-1 loss to the Canadiens on the 12th (taking a penalty and going goose egg across the board).
Hard to generate such gaudy stats and make such an impact to someone's recollection of the game when a player was hardly on the ice.
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Yeah, the sample size is small enough to be basically meaningless, but from the very sparse amounts that Phillips has played in the NHL, I remember him not being a liability on the ice. That's it.
Whereas you asserted this:
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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
He has three NHL games under his belt and played sheltered minutes in all of those.
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...which is demonstrably false, based on the available data.