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Originally Posted by theoforever
Are you the part of Hackey that does all the thinking?
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Cute quip, but incorrect.
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Fact is that Burke should not have gone to the media, nothing good was going to happen.
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No, that is your opinion.
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Sven did try to change but for the Flame organization it was too little and too late, apparently.
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Three years of no noticeable improvement? Yeah, that would be too little, too late for most teams.
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If Feaster was still GM, Sven would have been playing for the Flames, probably well too.
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Feaster was fired for several reasons. His excessive attachment to Baertschi may have been one of them.
You want facts? Here are some:
The Flames are a much improved team this year. They have done this, most games, with Baertschi out of the lineup. When he was in the lineup, he played minimal minutes and produced very little offence, and he is not known for being a defensive player. The previous two seasons, when Baertschi played in more games and got more ice time per game, the team was substantially worse.
From all these facts, I don't see how one can conclude that Baertschi was treated unfairly. I conclude that the team improved because a number of better players were brought in, and there just wasn't room for Baertschi in the improved lineup. If he isn't good enough to play even 50% of the games for a 25th-place team ('12-13) or a 27th-place team ('13-14), it's not surprising that he isn't good enough to be a regular on a 15th-place team. Even if he has been improving, he hasn't improved as fast as the team. He simply got left behind.
Which leads up to another fact: His waiver exemption is about to run out. If you're not going to play him, you have to move him or lose him.
I say that moving him is preferable to losing him on waivers (or to free agency because he refuses to re-sign). This, I grant you, is an opinion, but it is one that I think most people would agree with.