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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Actually, I disagree. I agree he doesn't have a two way game, but neither does his homey Kessel. If you're saying he was good the last 5 games two years ago and the tail end of last year, you're only saying he wasn't good for the few games at the beginning of the season. He seemed to do well in Abby too. When was he lousy again?
Is that normal for young players to struggle? If so, how does embarrassing a 20 year old kid help him learn and grow?
This only is a reasonable response of Sven had an attitude
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Well, like I said before, Burke has only been here a few months and seems to suggest the only time he's seen of him was when he was in junior (while watching another prospect), and his impression from the last couple months. Yes he is and has been a GM in the league for a long time, but that doesn't mean he knows specific details about our prospects before getting here. He was asked a question about Baertschi and responded with what he know's. "I don't know" is a perfectly fine response. People want to give a context of "I dunnnoooooo..." but really Burke doesn't actually know. He knows what he's seen thus far and for him to not be overly impressed seems pretty logical to me.
I have no problem waiting through the trials of dealing with young players, and people can debate how to deal with them all they want, but I think to suggest that they haven't brought up these issues with Baertschi perosnally before it was mentioned here is off the mark. And again, he was asked a direct question to evaluate Baertschi at this point. If you were new to an organization and have been watching the camp, would you be impressed with Baertschi? I wouldn't. He said he is immensley skilled but has a lot to learn about the rest of the game. Is that an unfair comment?
I want the kid to do well and succeed, but he won't do that with the effort level he's been giving thus far this season. It's been especially dissapointing given what we had seen from him in terms of work ethic before.