I watched this game. I wrote a rather verbose and mostly tongue-in-cheek game summary on FlamesNation. The skinny is Green Bay was horrible and Phillips had a mostly rough outing with some good moments sprinkled in.
The score does not do justice to how bad the Gamblers were. They had seven shots on goal. Total. Muskegon was half-asleep and still made them look like a pee wee team.
This was my concluding bit on Phillips' performance:
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over all, I have to say it wasn't a banner evening for our hero. For the most part I'd say he knew where to go and what to do (though there were occasions where he could have taken another stride or three to establish position and completely shut things down, but instead coasted and awkwardly reached in with his stick; at least one of these occasions I'm pretty sure he was worried about flattening his own goalie, though)--but it was his hands and feet that let him down. He was very slow to close gaps, and while he didn't quite hot potato the puck, his puck skills were definitely lacking with exaggerated and slow motions. IMO he was much stronger on the PK, despite the fact that he was oddly lining up on the right side (he played both sides at even strength, but mostly the left). There was also one shift in the third where he kind of just wandered around lost in a very Joni Jurmo like fashion.
Just one game, but not one where I thought he put his best foot forward. Though, in his defense, Green Bay as a whole was awful. Like, comically bad. You got the impression that none of those guys had ever seen each other before, much less played together.
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