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Originally Posted by AustinL_NHL
There's a ton in this post that I could respond to, but I'm gonna keep it nice and short because it's bed time for me.
The difference between Backlund and Brouwer is that they're complete polar opposites. Backlund plays the most important forward position. Brouwer doesn't. Backlund is a possession God. Brouwer is a 100lb anchor. Backlund is an absolute defensive monster. Brouwer makes a pylon look like a Selke candidate. Backlund has hovered around the 48-53 point mark the last 3 seasons. Brouwer has never come close.
In short, Backlund is currently an elite two-way player. He's among the elite of the elite defensively while providing close to 50 points a season, if not more.
He's still on pace for 48 points despite being incredibly unlucky this season by all accounts (S%, oiSH% and PDO are all the lowest they've been in 7 years) and continues to absolutely obliterate his opponents night in and night out despite being matched up against opposing teams' top lines every night and being buried in defensive zone starts.
Anyone complaining about his contract is just looking for something to complain about because his contract, by all accounts, is fantastic. 90% of the hockey world (100% of the analytics world) figured he'd get more than what he did.
The only comments in this thread should be praising Treliving and bowing to Backlund for taking a hometown discount. So many negative posters around here who are posting nonsense without any sort of evidence to back up their claims.
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While most posters won't like it ,"New era" post had facts and well thought opinions. Your rebutal post was basically how much you think Brouwer sucks. It also only covered how good Backlund is now and nothing about what he might be like in 6 years.
Basically new era had a good post and yours was crap.