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Originally Posted by Textcritic
So, are you suggesting that you expect Baertschi's potential to be comparable to Backlund's? I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this, and I think you need to elaborate. Furthermore, I am not clear on how you draw this comparable between a second-year WHL player and a player who played his whole juniour career in Tier-2 SEL, with only a brief stint in Canadian Juniour. Please elaborate.
At present, I am cautiously optimistic that Baertschi's ceiling is and always has been a lot higher than Backlund's. I really like Backlund, but he lacks the sorts of intangibles in his game that have many projecting Baertschi to be a star.
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Agreed.
Baertschi and Backlund have totally different games from what I've seen. Backlund isn't nearly as giften offensively as Baertschi, but he has great defensive awareness. He is really looking like more of a 2nd line centre type player. I would put Backlund's max potential at Daymond Langkow type player.
Meanwhile Baertschi is pure first line scoring. Whether or not his game translates into the NHL is another thing, but Baertschi looks mokre like a ....well a player the Flames haven't had a in very long time.