‘Not an easy thing’: Matthew Phillips explains decision to depart Flames

Flames fans are now worried this homegrown hopeful will be the next one that got away. They will point out their favourite squad is starved for production from the right wing, and this guy just happens to specialize in that.

While the Flames offered a new contract, believed to be a two-year deal, Phillips figured the future looked better in D.C.“I’d be lying if I said that it was an easy thing to turn the page here,” said Phillips, who racked up 236 points across his five winters with the Flames’ farm club and was rewarded with a grand total of three appearances in The Show. “I’ve loved playing in Calgary this whole season for the Wranglers and all my time here, doing different camps and my time with the Flames.

“I’ve said this before — that’s my goal every summer and going into every training camp is to make the NHL team and to play in the NHL,” reiterated Phillips, who averaged upwards of a point-per-game in his past two minor-league campaigns. “I feel like hopefully I have a decent chance to achieve that in Washington. By no means is it something that is going to be handed to me. It’s something I have to work for. You have to beat guys out of jobs. But I’m excited for that challenge.

The Capitals called before any other suitor. Spencer Carbery, now bench boss in Washington, personally reached out. He“I had a good handful of teams that were pretty serious about me,” Phillips said. “I just think Washington, they checked a lot of boxes and they seemed to like my game and what I can bring. That’s what you’re looking for when you hit free agency is a team that wants you and you want to go there. So I’m excited for it.

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