Wanted to share an insightful post from that other board
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Anglesmith:
I just watched Hartley's interview myself, and picked up on some things a little differently than just from reading the assessment in the post in this thread.
His first way of breaking the news of Sven being scratched was that he explained that with Stajan and Jones returning, we were pretty 'loaded up' for forwards
When asked about basically how he felt Sven was playing, Hartley said nothing about his defensive play. He said that he thought he was okay, and was creative with the puck, but that they wanted more. That doesn't sound like the kind of response where he's played his way into the press box. It's certainly much different than Burke's comments.
His comment about three zones was taken completely out of context. The reporter asked if the scratch was down to defensive-zone play, and Hartley said it was more overall, that they wanted more out of him in all three zones.
Just some more perspective. It really does sound like he didn't want to sit anyone else, and so he sat Baertschi. I'm not sold that there is a concrete reason for scratching Baertschi other than numbers in his position. I'm not sure whether this is a more or less acceptable reason for Hartley.
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Does anyone have a link to the actual interview? From this is definitely doesn't sound as extreme as the tweets implied.