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Originally Posted by Hells Bells
I certainly won't mind if that "staged" fight leads to a momentum change in a Flames W.
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Boo. In the season after Burke made his infamous "truculance" remark some Leafs bloggers did a study to see if team scoring rates increased in the immediate aftermath of a fight... what they found was that it had zero impact, the team scoring rate remained static.
Besides even if there was a flaw in that study one would think that the "momentum" is a two-way street... that the other team will experience the "momentum" as often as the Flames would making it a wash over the long-term.
I think it's probably a nothing trade. It neither improves or depreciates the team... I mean in theory every shift he takes probably makes the team worse since he'd instantly becomes the worst player on the team but I imagine that he'll take roughly half as many shifts as the other fourthies and for the other shifts he'll be covered by another player (a better player then the one he replaces) taking the rest making it a wash in terms of talent.
Of course if Baertschi ends up assigned to Abbotsford as a result I'd like to pre-order my pitchfork and torch in advance.