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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Sometimes I have no idea what team/players/prospects you're watching. Michael Backlund is 27 in two moths, he's never hit 20 goals, he's never hit 40 points. He's a good two-way center suitable to the 3rd line. If Backlund is playing over his head on the second line you're probably not a good hockey team.
For clarification see the current edition of the Calgary Flames.
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Yes, Mikael Backlund playing over his head and coming out of most matchups a plus for the last three full seasons is the reason we're discussing Matthews/Puljujarvi/Laine,
and he was the reason we got Sam Bennett too
I'm not going to make my case for Backlund, I've watched enough of his career to know that while he has his limitations, he definitely qualifies as copious center depth for any team with two number ones, which has no correlation to a team rolling an overmatched number two as a number one.