Respectively, Adam Klapka and Matthew Phillips are the tallest and shortest players remaining at Calgary Flames training camp.
Twelve whole inches separate the two players in height. They’re 80 pounds apart. It’s not exactly the same as Nathan Gerbe lining up next to Zdeno Chara, but it’s close.
But Klapka and Phillips also have some things in common. They’re both right-handed wingers, and they both entered the Flames’ system as relative afterthoughts — Phillips was a sixth-round pick in the same draft class as Matthew Tkachuk, Dillon Dube, and Adam Fox; Klapka was an undrafted free-agent signing from the Czech Extraliga this past spring.