The discussion made me curious enough to go look up Baclklund's faceoff stats:
Code:
Season GP FOW FOL Tot FO% SHFOW SHFOL SHTot SH%
09-10 23 102 89 191 53.4 0 0 0 N/A
10-11 73 319 345 664 48.0 17 33 50 34.0
11-12 41 225 271 496 45.4 22 32 54 40.7
12-13 32 194 213 407 47.7 3 7 10 30.0
13-14 22 131 153 284 46.1 25 23 48 52.1
Avg 38 194 214 408 48.1 13 19 32 39.2
The best and worst faceoff guys of the last 15+ years are listed
here. The best win >55% of the time, the worst win <44% of the time.
Backlund seems to be middle of the pack on faceoffs, perhaps bottom third. He has a terrible track record on short handed faceoffs.
FWIW.