[Rerun]

Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle

Are you upset because Sven got benched, or because Glencross didn't? Because the two are completely un-related, but it would seem from the outside that you feel the two are linked?

That's fine if you are mad Glencross is still getting ice time, but whether Sven should or shouldn't be getting ice time has nothing to do with whether Glencross is or should. Flames Addiction spelled out how the team should be looking at this very well.

Sven's play so far this year absolutley hasn't warranted a benching if the Flames are focused on winning today. The Flames have a better chance winning with him in the line up. But given we are rebuilding and don't care about results today, it nicely allows the coaches to take one of our better players out the line up, for whatever reason, if they think it will make Sven, and therefore the Flames better long term.

Sven got benched because...

Originally Posted by Rerun

Reasons why Sven got scratched last night.:

• Hartley has a hard on for Glencross and he apparently can do no wrong so scratching Scoreface is out of the question
• Stajan is back in the lineup and Hartley expects to see magic out of the Glencross-Stajan-Stempniak line
• You have to move LW Cammy somewhere and you obviously wouldn’t put him on the 3rd or 4th lines… so voila… Cammy gets Sven’s place on the Monahan line.
• Hartley likes LW TJ Galiardi and Lance Bouma so they aren't getting scratched so Sven can play on their lines.
  
  Any other reason is BS