Shane O'Brien talked about Baertschi on the Spittin Chicklets podcast. He mentioned how much Hartley hated Sven, and went out of his way to single him out and crush his spirit in his rookie season. He said he'd never seen any player treated worse by a coach in his career
O'Brien had said that it was so bad that there'd be times Sven would nearly be in tears in the locker room. At one point O'Brien said he went into Hartleys office to confront Hartley about his treatment of Sven, and Hartley didn't give a ####. He told O'Brien he was fat and lazy (I don't think O'Brien disagreed lol) and dismissed him. O'Brien ended up on waivers a week or 2 later (he didn't say this was the sole reason, but who knows)
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