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6 hours ago, Alflives said:

Ran out of money paying Torts?  

Who’s knows. Maybe Greens been a temp this whole time haha. I know it doesn’t mean much but I’ll continue to support him while he’s behind the bench. We will just see what happens over the next year. He’ll be back next year if they make the playoffs. We’ll see what happens Alf. In the meantime we should be cheering our team on instead of expecting or wishing for a change behind the bench.

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I could see a rebuilding team like LA take him off our hands for a possible draft pick. 
I think Sven’s chances of rejoining the Canucks are worse this fall than last fall. 
Nice guy from what I can see, but he doesn’t fit on an elite NHL team.

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Just now, Slegr said:

I could see a rebuilding team like LA take him off our hands for a possible draft pick
I think Sven’s chances of rejoining the Canucks are worse this fall than last fall. 
Nice guy from what I can see, but he doesn’t fit on an elite NHL team.

I wouldn't mind this Madden kid they just sign as a return :lol:

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20 minutes ago, Slegr said:

I could see a rebuilding team like LA take him off our hands for a possible draft pick. 
I think Sven’s chances of rejoining the Canucks are worse this fall than last fall. 
Nice guy from what I can see, but he doesn’t fit on an elite NHL team.

Canucks tried to move Baertschi instead of Schaller's expiring contract in the Toffoli deal but LA wasn't interested.  

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On 3/5/2020 at 12:42 AM, DownUndaCanuck said:

I would rather see Baertschi right now in our bottom-6 than Roussel. People forget he's pretty solid defensively, and while he won't be able to crack our top-6, he'd be a great fit alongside Sutter and Gaudette.

We need Roussel's grit than another finesse skilled winger.

 

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On 5/11/2020 at 7:51 PM, UticaHockey said:

Nothing but class from Sven which we have grown to expect in Utica.

 

He has been a very good soldier for the Canucks.  

I always felt that he should have remained on the NHL roster.

 

High skill, high IQ, works hard on his 2-way game, doesn't just play the perimeter game anymore... yet potentially just 1 hit away from ending his career (and causing even more cap issues with the Canucks).  

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26 minutes ago, AK_19 said:

Seems determined to make the show. It'll be good to have a motivated Baertschi to call on if the injury bug hits our top 9 in the playoffs. (ya know... assuming they happen). The writings been on the wall for him since being cut out of camp, and the progression of our forward prospects as the season progressed, but a full(ish, not his fault), strong AHL season, and if he does get a chance and runs with it, it makes him a more tradeable chip to a rebuilding team. Not saying we'll get much out of it, but at least we'll be able to clear out some cap.

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8 minutes ago, Jimmy McGill said:

tbh I don't really know what happened here. Does anyone have a clear, simple explanation as to why Sven fell out of favour with Green? 

He doesn’t play a style that Green values. Too soft on the puck.

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but didn't he play a harder style in Utica? 

He did, but I think Green just preferred other players like Pearson, Leivo, and Ferland in the top 9. Hell even Eriksson was a more favourable option to him.

 

Hard to change a coaches opinion once he has one formed of a player.

 

 

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Just now, DeNiro said:

He did, but I think Green just preferred other players like Pearson, Leivo, and Ferland in the top 9. Hell even Eriksson was a more favourable option to him.

 

Hard to change a coaches opinion once he has one formed of a player.

 

 

true. Every coach seems to have a guy or two like Baer that they give up on, and one they like too much as well. 

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I'm honestly still surprised that Eriksson had a place on our roster and not Baertschi. Baertschi may not have been as hard on the puck as Pearson, Miller, and maybe Roussel, but I saw no downside in him compared to Eriksson. Baertschi has shown good offensive chemistry with Hovat in the past and is a good defensive player as well. He played on our previous shutdown line well when he was paired with Horvat. Furthermore, it was more important to showcase Baertschi to be able to trade him whereas Eriksson was already a hopeless cause. Virtually nothing he was going to do was going to change the impression he was a pure cap dump. 

 

Perhaps there is something to Alf's theory that there is a hand shake agreement for Erikkson to retire after his July 1 bonus and the Canucks are trying to keep him happy by not sending him to the AHL or making virtually any negative comments about him to the press. For a player as bad as him, it's amazing the amount of positive feedback we get from the coach, management, and fellow teammates. 

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13 minutes ago, Jimmy McGill said:

but didn't he play a harder style in Utica? 

 

10 minutes ago, DeNiro said:

He did, but I think Green just preferred other players like Pearson, Leivo, and Ferland in the top 9. Hell even Eriksson was a more favourable option to him.

 

Hard to change a coaches opinion once he has one formed of a player.

 

 

Baertschi doesn't have the durability.  His play from when he first arrived to pre-concussion was night and day.  Buzzing around the net, trying to play the body more, etc... he's supposed to be part of the core going forward.  

 

One major problem is that his salary is a bit too high and if he sustains a major injury, that amount will be on the books.  While he can just go on LTIR, when they have to re-sign players in the off-season, his salary is still factored in as a team can only temporary exceed the cap by 10% or something at any time.  

 

I would personally prefer him over Josh Leivo (both are the same age and same weight)... but Sven is being paid 3 times as much.  If Sven was just being paid $2.5 million, his injury issues may be ignored.  But since the Canucks are tight against the cap, they need to have as much flexibility as possible.  

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