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Originally Posted by Beninho
Obviously he's been lucky to play with 2 excellent 2 way players but honestly Tkachuk is a massive reason why Backlund and Frolik are having the years they are having. I say this with no disrespect to Frolik but Tkachuk is already the superior player. I would have no problem using him on the PK. I agree that Tkachuks development will be very intriguing and gets me so excited. I've said it a lot on this thread but if his skating improves... wow. We got very very lucky.
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Several times he has flipped the puck to Backlund in confined spaces for goals.
To do it in traffic at the spur of the moment at a high rate of speed is impressive. On one play I recall he gets pushed down behind the net, gets up with a guy draped on his back and still passed the puck to an open player. He takes the hits, make the plays and instinctively heads to the net even to jump on his own rebounds.