The notion that the contract is bad because the team hasn't won anything is flat out ridiculous. Just silly.
Some of you talk like 29 teams should rebuild every year.
The idea is to get better. To continue to improve. Hard to get better if you let some of your best players go, or keep trading everyone for picks. And getting better isn't linear, it requires patience. It requires ADDING to the core, not subtracting from it.
If you want to argue that Backlund isn't worth the contract, go ahead. But arguing the team isn't good and therefore we shouldn't sign him is some pretty horrific logic.
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