What am I Missing With Phillips

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Created by: WranglerWranglin

Team: 2022-23 Calgary Flames

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 2, 2022

Published: Dec. 2, 2022

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I understand the clamoring for Phillips as he's coming off the AHL player of the month and leading the league in points but a call up right now isn't the right thing to do is it? After Salim Valji asked Sutter point-blank about it today he essentially got told that as it stands Phillips doesn't perform at an NHL level.

https://twitter.com/salimvalji/status/1598752486663553024?s=20&t=_czEQzqMpkuOcSlgxgosuQ

If that's the case then why would there be a call up? If he comes up and the Jack Adams winning coach that is on his 3rd decade in the league just happens to be right then what is the move with him? He sits in the press box or goes on waivers and the wannabe talking heads like WinColumn, Gould and Adler on Flames twitter have another collective meltdown.

Pelletier or Zary make more sense to slide into the left wing on the third line no? Waiver exempt, sheltered by Backlund and Coleman, better option than Ruzicka or Lucic.

Other AHL league leaders in points over the past few years and where they are now:

24yo - Matthew Phillips - 1.444 points per game - 25% shooting percentage

27yo - Andrew Poturalski - 1.423 - 14.2% - Career AHL
29yo - T.J. Tynan - 1.581 - 15.4% - Career AHL
26yo - Sam Anas - 1.111 - 12.6% - Career AHL
26yo - Reid Boucher - 1.264 - 13.7% - 9 min/night in Vancouver
23yo - Carter Verhaeghe - 1.079 - 16.7% - Middle 6 NHL
21yo - Jeremy Bracco - 1.053 - 17.1% - KHL

Verhaege is the outlier here, not the norm. Scoring in the AHL is great but let's not get tunnel vision on one thing. There are obviously holes in Phillips game or other teams would have grabbed him on waivers at the start of the year. 2021-22 he had 68 points but was only +14 on a team that had the least goals against and one of the best goal differentials in the entire league. It doesn't take a real deep look to find where the holes in his game are. The ask from Flames fans right now is to call up an undersized, below average defensive player with an unsustainable shooting percentage to fix all their problems.

Sorry if this post isn't appropriate here and should be elsewhere, just trying out a new forum as opposed to the horrid Flames Twitter cult.

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$72,775,833	$0	$200,000	$9,724,167

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Huberdeau, Jonathan $5,900,000$5,900,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Lindholm, Elias $4,850,000$4,850,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Toffoli, Tyler $2,125,000$2,125,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Mangiapane, Andrew $5,800,000$5,800,000 RW, LW UFA - 3	Kadri, Nazem $7,000,000$7,000,000 C NMC UFA - 7	Dubé, Dillon $2,300,000$2,300,000 LW, RW, C RFA - 2
Zary, Connor $863,333$863,333 LW, C RFA - 3	Backlund, Mikael $5,350,000$5,350,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Coleman, Blake $4,900,000$4,900,000 RW, LW NTC UFA - 5
Lucic, Milan $5,250,000$5,250,000 LW, RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1	Ruzicka, Adam $762,500$762,500 LW, C UFA - 2	Ritchie, Brett $750,000$750,000 RW UFA - 1
	Rooney, Kevin $1,300,000$1,300,000 C UFA - 2	Lewis, Trevor $800,000$800,000 ($200,000$200K) RW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Hanifin, Noah $1,237,500$1,237,500 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Andersson, Rasmus $4,550,000$4,550,000 RD UFA - 4	Markström, Jacob $6,000,000$6,000,000 G NMC UFA - 4
Weegar, MacKenzie $3,250,000$3,250,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Tanev, Christopher $1,125,000$1,125,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Vladar, Daniel $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1
Zadorov, Nikita $3,750,000$3,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Stone, Michael $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1
Mackey, Connor $912,500$912,500 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Kylington, Oliver $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 2

Dec. 8, 2022 at 8:42 p.m.

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WranglerWranglin

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Quoting: KingofRnR

I get it, you're mad cause you're the supposed "Hockey Expert" and yet, my Calls & Recommendations are the ones they're going with. I Win! Better Luck on the Next One!!!

What would I ever be mad about?! None of this effects anyone in any way… you know that right?! Your calls and recommendations?!? Hahahah who’d you call? It’s not even that you’re dumb it’s that you’re genuinely so so strange with the way you talk like you’re helping. You’re a weird kid!

And like a traditional feelings hurt denialist you’ve just again ignored hard tangible facts to pat yourself on the back. What do they say about simple Jack in Tropic Thunder? Whatever it is you’ve gone well past full blown!

Try defend the Stone point, you literally can’t.
Try defend that Phillips is the right call up for the 4th line with numbers instead of your baby poop soft feelings.
Even the analysts on the radio on the way home thinks it’s a weird call up at this time. I’m sure everyone else is wrong except you!

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