I don't understand some of the ruffled feathers with regards to where Baertschi currently finds himself on the roster. Rightly or wrongly the team believes it's in the hunt for the playoffs and statistically they still actually are. Now's not the time to start giving out important minutes to younger players simply for developments sake. We should be playing our best guys and so far Sven hasn't really shown why he should be taking minutes away from guys like Stempniak, Hudler, Glencross, Cammy, etc, etc.
If we've fallen out of contention later in the year and Sven's still getting reduced minutes in a bottom six role I'd understand and agree. At this point though, based on what I've seen I have no problem with where he is on the roster.
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