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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Hartley made Sven cry? How?
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I don't think anyone knows, or even if it is true. Shane O'brien said that Hartley was really hard on Baertshi and at one point he felt compelled to stand up for him in front of the team. Hartley called Shane "fat and terrible", and the next day Burke put him on waivers. There was another rumour that Baertschi called his mother in Switzerland crying saying he wanted to go home. Whether that was related to the same story, I don't know.
Thing is, O'brien didn't actually have a great reputation as a person or hard worker himself and didn't like Hartley on a personal level, so I take anything he says with a grain of salt. Tanguay defended Hartley and said he can be really hard on people, but also gave him the best advice in his career. In the end, I just don't think Baertschi had the mental strength or character to deal with NHL coaches period. To be fair, I probably wouldn't either.