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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
That is the telling quote for me.
Baertschi feels like if he has a few bad shifts, he loses ice-time (because that is exactly how Hartley treats him)
No one can play well in those circumstances - especially a creative, offensive player.
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Yeah I don't get the tough love approach from Hartley on Sven but outside of Monahan he's been pretty consistent in treating rookies like this. It looks like Horak will never play for the Hartley's team and it will be interesting to see how he handles Breen when Gio comes back. Maybe this is the way he's going to do things to keep the team competitive until they are totally out of the playoff race like last year when he finally let the kids play. Hard to say if he's doing things right or wrong because we have seen up north that just handing out ice time to kids deserved or not hasn't yielded complete players that can play a team game.