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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
You can't give players meaningful minutes if they aren't earning them. End of story. If Sven can't outplay Hudler he shouldn't be ahead of him on the depth chart. The Flames are rebuilding here and part of that is to build a solid team nucleus of young players. You can't have a solid nucleus when players are allowed to freelance and not commit to a team game. There's nothing wrong with what the Flames did after the deadline last year giving the kids lots of ice time but you don't start game 1 of an 82 game NHL season running your team like that.
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totally agree..
I want to see Baertschi (and Backlund) get a chance to fail.
Hudler and Stempniak have gotten top-6 minutes and PP time and have failed miserably. When are they going to be called out and told to get better or get out.
Last year Horak and Begin and Comeau and Cervenka got more minutes of Ice-time than Baertschi.
It is not like Baertschi has been awarded top-6 minutes. He has shown more talent in very limited opportunity than anyone in recent history.
As for not ripping it up in exhibition games .... Schremp may be the best exhibition player in the history of the league.
Is there a deeper problem with Baertschi? Was he told to train a certain way and not done it? Came to camp out of shape? at the wrong weight? He got benched in the first game in Penticton. He has not had the red carpet rolled out for him.
I think that the problem with Baertschi is that the Flames loaded up on so many smallish skilled forwards...
What hole did Feaster think that Hudler solve when he signed him as a UFA?