The NHL is no longer a play one zone and nevermind attention to detail in your own zone league.
the Canucks will be all over him for the same things.
part of the problem in Calgary in the previous era was the star players wouldn't do the detail work, and because of that they couldn't win
Datsyuk and Zetterberg, Yzerman before them, and countless others have set the bar and you can't just pick and choose where you put your work boots on.
A guy like Gaudreau will never win a Selke but the Flames have worked with him on coverage. His scoring bought him time to work on all aspects of his game and because of that he's flourishing.
The funny thing about Baertschi is that he was starting to get it and he may just get it now. But if he does it will be that stuff he doesn't like from his time in Calgary that is giving him the rope to get more confident offensively.
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