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Originally Posted by Fan in Exile
You have been on here post after post stating that management does not have "established criteria" and the fanbase reads too much into their slogans and statements about competition, spots being open, et cetera.
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Not exactly. I have meant to say that we are not privy to management's established criteria.
But I will agree with you that Baertschi seems to have been possibly confused about how he ought to interpret what the team was telling him. However, I doubt it. I suspect most likely that Baertschi has failed to recognise that he is not the only player who was making the same—or in some cases even more impressive—advancements.
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Originally Posted by Fan in Exile
...So go ahead and put it all on him. Maybe you're right. But I think you should acknowledge that there is also a risk that we have been and continue to mismanage him as a prospect and we see him blossom into the player he could have been here somewhere else.
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This would require me to concede that the Flames have "mismanaged" Baertschi's development in the first place. If they did, it was probably early on when he was groomed in the media spotlight to be the team's saviour. If he is struggling now, it might have something to do with how the previous management foisted expectations upon him that he was not yet equipped to satisfy.
Of course, in the end we may never know...