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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I like Backlund but you are way, way overrating him and basically attacking anyone who disagrees.
You said a few pages back we should sign him to ANY term length if he takes $5m per. That's madness.
We need to manage our assets better than that.
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This is a sensible post. But I will say that while Ashasx may be guilty of over-rating Backlund a little, the insistence by a number of other posters that he is nothing more than a really good third-line centre is utter nonsense. Backlund ranks #53 in production among centres over the course of the past four seasons. Over the past three seasons, he is ranked #37.
Of course, he is a second line centre. And the numbers would indicate that he is actually a very good one.