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Originally Posted by Matty81
I like Hartley's system but the handling of Baertschi is criminal so far this year. You are a rebuilding team and you bench your 20 year old top prospect for a bunch of 30ish slugs after destroying his confidence in the media?
And to boot, he hasn't even played badly - he's one of the only plus players on the team and has 4 points in limited icetime.
Trying to turn him into a crap disturber like Gallagher is pointless and hardheaded - it's not and has never been his game. Would have expected this out of a Sutter maybe. Wouldn't think of firing Hartley but Feaster has got to step in and tell him to get the kids in the lineup in a year like this or the rebuild is going to take a decade. Unfortunately Burke seems to hate Baertschi as well.
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They don't hate him. You read waaayyyyy to much into the comments.
And where did they ever say that they want him to be a crap disturber as you put it. They want him to work hard in all three zones... no shifts off. Just because they say work hard, doesn't mean, be an idiot.
Gallagher was used as a reference with how he skates all the time, and plays bigger than his size.
And anyone that thinks a pro athlete doesn't need to learn how to play in all 3 zones is completely and utterly stupid.... look how well it's working up north with talented players only focusing on playing in 1 zone.
They sat him because they want more from him, they know he can do better. If they hated him, pretty sure they wouldn't care what he does as they'd just get rid of him. Fact is they know he has the ability to be better, they want him to be a part of the future and they are being hard on him because they want to see him succeed.
And sitting in the pressbox isn't a bad thing for a kid, he gets to see the game from above and see where the open spots are and you learn how to see the game. Hence why most people on here think they know more then everyone else by watching the game on tv. Easy to see everything when your looking down on the game.