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Originally Posted by cannon7
I have to say, I don't think Burke could've been more discouraging to a young player. I don't know what Burke's intentions are towards Baertschi. It's clear Baertschi is lacking confidence, typical of a 20 year old.
I'm sure Ward is doing his best, but by the time Baertschi was sent down, he was already discouraged knowing Burke had his sights on him. I am wondering if Baertschi even sees a future in this organization. Hell, I'm wondering if Burke sees a future for Baertschi, too.
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Sure he could have been discouraging. There's an old saying that "that's life in the NFL". I'm sure that behind the scenes there were conversations with sven with Bob Hartley and conversations with Sven with Burke, at least he got it straight.
There's a certain amount of mental toughness that has to be there to play this game or any other at the highest level. Its become apparent that Sven needs 10% less hugs and sunshine up the butt and about 50% more reality check, you aren't playing hard enough to be here.
If Sven losing his confidence this badly every time things don't go his way to the point of basically vanishing on the ice and shying away from doing anything, then he's not much good to the Flames is he, and no coddling and spoonfeeding is going to change that.
In other words, Sven needs to find some mental toughness.