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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I hate this argument because it ignores the AHL season.
He’s proven it for three seasons at the AHL level with no NHL games or real call ups. That’s not a real shot.
He was perfectly fine this training camp and the best player in the Seattle game, got sent down anyways. He deserved to stay in camp more than Eakins, Ruzicka, and Milano ImO as they were all worse than he was in camp but they got to the end of camp to find their game.
Let just say what it is. He’s 5’7” and the coach is too stubborn and old school to take a shot on a 5’7” forward that isn’t already a proven star. So the team finds any excuse they can to justify that the coach just won’t play him.
Gotta keep running Lucic, Rooney, and Ritchie out there.
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That’s just not true. If he was nhl ready for three years he’d be gone on waivers.
Marchessault played 4 nhl games, with 3 years between games 2 and 3 before he was 25/26 years old. Yanni Gourde played 2. It’s the only path to the NHL for small players who are nothing special til their mid 20s. Across the league.
this is not unique to Sutter or the Flames or Phillips.
You can argue the whole league is misguided this way if you want, but there’s a reason he’s not had a shot or been picked up by another team across 6-7 pro years, different coaches, and training camps. It’s not Sutter. It’s because he has not been good enough.
Maybe he kicks down the door this year and explodes with an opportunity somewhere else next year. Odds are he will not.