Great points, which were getting lost in all of this.
You can see over time what's happening as far as players getting bumped down or out. Even way back when Corrado got bumped by Hutton. Then we see Hutton get bumped out. Same with Granlund, now Baertschi. It just means we're getting better and moving on from players who helped get us to this point.
It's interesting to see the emotion attached to certain players. The danger in that is when fans get so emotionally invested in certain players, those players can become our ceiling because we don't want to let them go.