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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
If's don't count. What if the Flames had a better home record? They don't so it doesn't matter. He's going to be slotted in a 3rd line spot in the coming years and his production will drop accordingly the moment he's not playing with Tkachuk. There's no question that signing Backlund was plan B for Treliving as he was trying to improve on the position by acquiring Turris or Duchene. Those didn't materialize so he was kind of in a situation where he kind of had to keep him but it's pretty obvious the GM realizes that this position that needed to be upgraded.
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IF that is at all true then Burke and Trevling need to be fired.
An older better paid Backlund is not going to be an upgrade on the current Backlund just the same as this year's Backlund is not an upgrade on last year's Backlund.