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Originally Posted by Textcritic
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.
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THIS.
If we're being really honest here, and REALLY evaluating these prospects based on what has happened historically in this event, then chances are Baertschi goes on to be successful while Granlund barely cracks the NHL. Career AHL guys dominate this event every year. It's not because they're better than a Baertschi (or in terms of 2011, an RNH) but because they HAVE to dominate this tournament. People confuse this tournament for something much more serious than it actually is. For guys who have something to prove, yeah, 3 games means a lot. For a guy who has potted 13 points in 25 NHL games? This tournament is literally meaningless.
In 2011 Baertschi had 2 goals. He played a whopping 3 NHL games that year.
In 2011 Brodie had 0 points and was a -2. He's played in over 100 NHL games since.
Brodie was about the same age as Baertschi is now. But I guess by the logic of some Brodie CLEARLY showed he was incapable of performing in the NHL.
You know... except for the fact he played 54 NHL games that same season.
And 47 this past year while putting up modest point totals.
Yeah, incapable....