Ben Kuzma: Can Sven Baertschi get it right winging it to fill Canucks’ big roster hole?
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I’ll be fighting like hell,’ says the veteran who spent much of last season at AHL Utica. I’m still really confident in my abilities and I know I can be relied on in a day-to-day basis’ In an odd year, Sven Baertschi could find himself in an odd roster spot. The Vancouver Canucks’ left-winger, who cleared waivers and was assigned to the American Hockey League affiliate Utica Comets in October of 2019, and then opted out of the 2020 NHL post-season in June, was upbeat this week when reached at his off-season home near Portland.
I’m still really confident in my abilities and I know I can be relied on in a day-to-day basis.
And the Canucks did calculations to see what they’d save if Baertschi was in Utica again on the final year of his deal that carries a US $3.66-million cap hit.
If anything, the emotion of it all forced Baertschi to be a player and mentor in Utica. And if he needed any levity, he got it after clearing waivers again in late November of 2019 and bumping into Nikolay Goldobin in an airport.
I’m still really confident in my abilities and I know I can be relied on in a day-to-day basis.
And the Canucks did calculations to see what they’d save if Baertschi was in Utica again on the final year of his deal that carries a US $3.66-million cap hit.
If anything, the emotion of it all forced Baertschi to be a player and mentor in Utica. And if he needed any levity, he got it after clearing waivers again in late November of 2019 and bumping into Nikolay Goldobin in an airport.