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Originally Posted by Locke
I think at some point we all gave up on Backlund
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IIRC Backlund has always had his defenders on this board.
While it's fair to say that Backlunds rise to one of the stars of the team is probably a bit of a surprise to most, he was praised as "elite" defensive center by some posters pretty early on. That certain poster who suggested Backlund would be playing in the KHL was pretty generally laughed at.
To put it another way, Backlund has made it easy to be patient. All that was really required was for people to not label him useless just because he wasn't playing as well as many had hoped.
And yes, that's very much how I see Bennett too. It's hard to say how high Bennett will rise eventually, but he's already easily earning his spot on the team. For me that makes it easy to wait.