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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

...Burke simple said Bärtschi was good, but needed to be better in a few more words.

I don't think you've read the interview. It was way stronger and harsher than that.

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Burke, president of hockey operations, had not pulled punches earlier when asked about the Flames’ first-round pick from 2011.
“All I’ve seen so far are flashes of brilliance . . . (which) are fine if you’re working in a university, but they’re not much good to people in an NHL building,” he said. “There are three zones on the ice surface in this league. I don’t see that he’s learned to compete in two of them. He’s got to learn there’s a clock in this league and there’s so many minutes in a game and you have to compete through all of them. I see this as a guy right now who’s focusing on one area — and, even then, sporadically.
“So I don’t know what we have. I’m not ready to quit on the young kid. I’m not ready to throw him under the bus and rip him, but I think you can tell from my comments that I see big holes and a lack of commitment that’s not going to get him anywhere in my books.”
Okey dokey.
Burke did point out that Baertschi is green — he turns 21 on Saturday — and far from a writeoff.

Feaster agreed.
“Sven is still very much a work in progress,” Feaster said. “There are times when you watch Sven and say, ‘Boy, that’s so exciting,’ and you smile with anticipation about what could be. And then there are other times — and I think Brian’s right — when you look in the other two zones and you say, ‘Oh boy, we need to work on that.’ He’s still trying to figure out how to be a good pro, how to prepare every day.
“I met with Sven over the weekend and I told him, ‘We’re going to help you. You need to trust us. You need to do the things the coaches are asking you to do. But we’re going to get through this together.’ ”