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Originally Posted by joe_mullen
Scratching youth could also be very detrimental to their development. No way to know how it will affect Sven. Lots of 20 year olds need to be coddled. I for one have no faith that our coaching/management team will make the right decision. Hopefully I'm proven very wrong.
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So where is Horak, Reinhart, Hanowski, Backlund, Bouma and Brodie's coddling?
They are all young 20's and they seem to be responding okay to what they have been told to do and how to do it. And the coaching staff have made some pretty big requests of them (i.e. Reinhart switch to wing, Hanowski to drop some weight). They don't seem to need "special" rules because if they are scratched or sent down it will hurt them. They are professionals.
Heck, I'll even go so far to say if Baertschi recieved ANY of the same treatment Horak has so far from the Flames (continously being sent up and down with being waiver exempt as the reason), he would be in the fetal position in a corner crying for his mother.