This stings because of the promise he once showed, because it's our most bitter rival and because there is a slim chance that he really turns it around and burns us for years to come. The odds of the latter scenario playing out are incredibly long.
This is good asset management -- something that Flames fans have pined for for years. We used to let contracts expire for nothing. We used to burn draft choices for veteran depth and then recoup worse picks by trading down in the draft. This represents a complete reversal: sober, analytical thinking. You get consecutively less value for Baerschi with each passing day. He's not going to play on this team, get what you can and move on. Sucks it's Vancouver though -- no way around that.
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