For my money I'd rather have the Flames risk now than the Canucks.
Calgary needs to turn a 2nd round pick into something, and the timeline on that something is in the range of 5 years. Could be a good selection or a package to move up. If Baertschi fails then the pressure to turn the pick into something drops off the map.
The Canucks have to get him mentally capable of winning a job and staying in Vancouver and they only have 6 weeks of a hockey season left to do it. If he isn't ready and they send him down they lose either by Baertschi getting claimed or by him not getting claimed meaning he has zero NHL value. This all comes to bare in this calendar (before Xmas of 2015)
Had Calgary not dealt him for a good return that would be the Flames timeline.
It no longer is.
Calgary can succeed regardless of what Baertschi does if they use their pick wisely.
Vancouver needs one specific outcome and it has to happen in the fall.
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