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Originally Posted by Bingo
Personally I don't take Sutter seriously in press conferences.
I think his hostility towards being asked a question sometimes results in an attack on the subject matter when really it's an attack on the person asking the question.
Phillips comes up and he takes it as "how dare you tell me who to call up!"
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Interesting thought. It's a possibility. It doesn't make sense to take the run he did if he liked the guy. You don't crap on your prospects that way if they are in your immediate plans. I also look at his performance in camp and his contract status and don't see a player that incentivizes the team to make an investment of NHL time. Stranger things have happened, but I see Phillips as a player on his way out of the Flames system and not one they're going to give NHL time to. There's just no long-term benefit for the club. They'd be better off bringing up a number of other players and giving them opportunity of experience and development time IMO.