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Originally Posted by BigFlameDog
I don't think trotting out his point totals for this year helps your argument. The flames suck right now and are offensively challenged to say the least. The couple of guys that may have helped him pad his stats have been injured more than healthy this year.
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How does it not help his argument?
Backlund is not a young player anymore so that BS excuse used in the past is out. The Flames are a bad team which means he has every opportunity to take a big role and get force fed top minutes and yet he still isn't good enough to do that even on this team with little to no competition.
And the word used to describe him was excellent. Excellent guys don't need other players to help them pad their stats. If he was excellent he would be able to create offense all on his own and certainly a hell of a lot more than a 35 point pace that he is currently on and would be a big career high for him.