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Originally Posted by bob-loblaw
Sven is acting like Mila Kunis stole his pet chicken. You'd think that someone would have tried teaching him better media skills by now instead of letting him bringing up issues when he's in front of a microphone. It looks like he likes embarassing himself.
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Let's be clear here:
The stuff I posted above was NOT from an interview with Baertschi, nor from any public statements. Tomlinson was relaying things he had heard, and spinning his beliefs about what Baertschi should be feeling into a story about a successful outcome for the Canucks in tonight's game.
I tend to think that some of it is probably accurate, but there is still a lot in what Tomlinson said that is nothing more than desperate grasping at invisible straws.
But the real story here is not so much about Baertschi's fragility and purported entitlement. The real story is the almost stunning unrealistic expectations being foisted upon him by a city and its media who appear to have already lost any tangible hope for the Canucks to win this series. It's the only explanation for why they can be clutching so tightly to these pipe dreams about a borderline NHL player.