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Originally Posted by RyZ
Very few players ever play "above" the competition, and young players even less so. Thats the stuff of all stars, etc.
When has Joe Colborne, Paul Byron or even Glencross or Stajan played "above" the competition? Same goes for probably 16 guys on every 20 man roster. They are there because they can play with the competition. Sometimes they win and sometimes they lose. Only the all star type players end up above the competition frequently rather than "at" the level of competition. That's how I see it anyway.
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I think he meant competition within the team, not the opposing team. In order for Baertschi to be on the opneing roster he had to beat Glencross, Hudler, Raymond, Gaudreau, Jones, Setogutchi and the bottom push of guys like Granlund, Ferland, Reinhart, Jooris, etc...
I think you can make a case for Setogutchi and Jones, but I think it's safe to say that both are probably gone before the end of the season, and I would say Jones for sure (would have to bring in some cap space some how).
From what I saw, he didn't outplay any of those players except for maybe Setogutchi. And even then, I don't think he outplayed Seto as much as he was about the same. Baertschi had to show himself above those players in order to earn their jobs, because those players have past performance to extrapolate from, Baertschi really doesn't.
But he just didnt outplay them. If there should be crying over anyone being cut, it should be Jooris and Ferland. They played better than any of the other options. But their not 1st rounders, so apparently it's not as much of a problem.