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Originally Posted by New Era
I don't think that is debatable at all. Ferland's growth has been superior to that of Baertschi. The team also likes his size and willingness to play any role. The team has said as much. Sven has been hot of late, but he has the same number of goals and two more assists than Ferland in 3 more games played.
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Really? It can't be debated whether Ferland or Baertschi is our top LW prospect? Also, great. Ferland can be a bottom 6 winger and be effective doing it. Baertschi is going to be a top 6 winger if he's going to be anything. Do you prefer simple likelihood of playing NHL games or probability of making an impact while doing so? I'll take the latter, and so far Baertschi has shown me flashes of game-breaking skill while Ferland hasn't. Ferland is far from skill-less, but since you're so fixated on simple stats without much context, Ferland has 1 NHL point. One. You're all about the pure numbers results, so why the love for a guy with a 0.1 PPG in his NHL career? Because he's big? Or because he has potential?
My view is Baertschi's ceiling is higher than Ferland's. On the flip side, Baertschi's floor is lower. In any case, my original point in all of this is it seems like there are people (like you, apparently) who, for some reason, can only like ONE of our LW prospects. Ferland made some good strides this year, so ship Baertschi out the door. Is that it? We can't like both?
Mystifying. If people were as hard on Ferland as they are on Baertschi he would have been traded years ago with his legal problems, conditioning issues, and what, at the time, were character flaws. We were patient. Now we have a legit prospect on our hands.
Baertschi is a legit prospect. And he is a CALGARY FLAME. Why some people are way more intent on pointing out his flaws, bad games, and bad shifts than any other of our prospects blows my mind.