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Originally Posted by nik-
It's funny, because I see it as shiny new toy syndrome.
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That's just the nature of evaluating prospects. It's not just amongst Flames fans where Baertschi has dropped as even THN used to have him top 15 in their future watch issue dropped him to the mid 30's below Gaudreau and ahead of Poirier in their 2014 Top 50. He achieved great things in the WHL but he hasn't been amongst the best forwards on the Heat and in the NHL he has produced at a fair pace but his all around game isn't good enough to keep a spot on the roster so the honeymoon for him is over. So far guys like Gaudreau, Granlund, and Poirier haven't got to that point in their careers where they have stalled in their development so there's more hope that they will be able to make the jump more seamlessly to the NHL.
You only have to look at Ryan Johansen to see that sometimes it takes a prospect time to put it all together as a professional so it's not all bad for Baertschi. However given the Flames status as a rebuilding team that is stocking the cupboards the longer it takes him the more the chances of him being surpassed by other prospects in the system.