[MisterJoji]

I admit I didn't see the game tonight but I'm starting to worry about Baertschi's situation. I defended Hartley at first as giving top minutes to high potential yet relatively unproven players like Sven isn't necessarily the best way to develop younger guys and honestly I don't think a night or two in the pressbox will hurt (except for ego). But the last few games Monahan has looked average and I'm not saying that he should be scratched, but he isn't playing any better than Sven was before he was scratched. There has to be some other factor going on. Why a plug like Jackman is playing every night, when we have a skilled young guy just sitting eating stale popcorn every night is baffling.

I had fully resigned myself to the fact that the Flames would be a bottom feeder this year, but after a solid start I mistakenly started thinking about playoffs. But now that the losses are piling up, we really need to give some of your young guys some development time. To reiterate I'm not saying Sven should get spoon fed top 6 minutes or even PP time but at least let the guy play with some skilled line-mates and give him a little breathing room. He needs to be able to make mistakes and learn from them. Not get stapled to the bench after one errant pass or losing a board battle. How can you expect him to learn if he has to play a flawless game or he's out. If this trend continues, it actually really does worry me about Gaudreau's future. I just pray that this isn't coming from Burke because he isn't a prototypical Burke player. I think Feaster and Weisbrod have done a phenomenal job aquiring young skilled prospects and Jay really needs to back "his" players.