Ben Kuzma: How asking for trade proved Baertschi’s best career move

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Sven Baertschi’s boldest career move came off the ice.
It wasn’t that the Vancouver Canucks winger was acquired in a trade with the Calgary Flames for a second-round pick nearly three years ago, it’s the fact he asked to be dealt.
At age 22, that took some stones because Baertschi had no control over his destination. He could have been thrown an anvil instead of a life preserver.
It proved the latter because he was reunited with his former junior coach T