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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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Ya I know they don’t. My point being he’s just about on the same pace DESPITE that, which tends to be an outlier. You keep talking about him as if he’s having some bad down season. He’s currently in a cold streak, that’s about the worse I can say about his season. People love to point to his lower goal total as if they have more value than assists but then would turn around and take Crosby over Ovechkin any day, so I don’t care for that argument. Points are points. Backlund is a little behind last years pace and it’s pretty clearly because of his outlier shooting percentage. Whether you want to dismiss that is your own prerogative but it is a quantifiable fact. And I’m not saying you can’t dismiss it, you can do whatever you want. Plus/minus is also quantifiable and I completely dismiss it as rubbish.
And speaking of ‘ifs’ not counting, you are literally pointing to rumor and speculation as proof that Backlund was plan B. What an argument that is lol.