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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
Never quite understood the lack of respect for backlund?
While he is never going to be the scorer we hoped for, he is a solid defensive player. Hrudy was mentioning on the broadcast the other night how either the NYR or NYI scouts or coaches raved about how good backlund was...
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I don't think it's a lack of respect, but we have 11 bottom 6 guys and 3 top 3 guys on the team. Sure he's good defensively, but so are 70% of our forwards. At some point, we need to move out the defensive guys for some scoring help up front.