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Originally Posted by New Era
No one is speaking in certainties, but I do find it interesting that what you are complaining about something teams do all the time. Look at Howse for example. I also fail to understand why certain prospects shouldn't be expected to perform to high levels, especially when they are supposed to be heads and tails better than others?
Baertschi has played 25 games in the NHL, and now he doesn't have anything to prove? Frankly, Baertschi has more to prove than anyone at this tournament. If he wants to carry the mantle of the club he needs to do it in all situations, not just the ones he choses. He was saying he wants to be a positive example for the young guys coming in, then prove it by playing hard every shift. what we're seeing so far has been a pretty poor example. If this is the attitude he has now how long until he decides he's saving it for the post-season and doesn't need to show up for the first month or two of the season?
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I understand critical, and as fan you are more than entitled to express your opinion about how well or poorly a player performs. But that is not what you are doing here. You quite frankly don't know anything about what Baertschi needs to or needn't do to be successful. You don't have the foggiest clue about if or why he is under performing in this tournament, and you cannot speak cogently about his or any other prospect's future from what you have seen in the course of two days in the first week of September.