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Originally Posted by Ashasx
Can you post the sources of these facts?
Baertschi missed a little under 2 weeks while with the Flames.
He would have missed around 2 weeks while at the WJC.
Where are you getting that he missed 14 games as a direct result of injury?
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He had a hip injury early that year. That may be what you are missing.
I think all the talk of what he did as a junior is pretty irrelevant. Junior isn't the AHL, and the AHL isn't the NHL. Unless the player is a real phenom, they need to play at AHL speed before they can try NHL speed (I'm not just talking skating speed here).
One of the scourts said of Sven in junior "if he ever stops going to the middle of the ice, he's worthless". That was obviously a harsh comment, but interesting looking at his style play right now.