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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Do you think that’s a pattern with Backlund though?
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He doesn’t like physical play and the Ducks are physical. He took a lot of penalties last year, and was the worst player in the team in plus minus.
A trend? Who knows. but he gets a pass far too often when he seems to coast out there a lot more. Tonight it was just s lot more blatantly obvious, but still shielded by people who can’t see past Smith. Mike Smith also just gave up one referee aided 5 on 3 goal two starts ago against the high powered Leafs and people are now running him out of town and he’s trending poorly.
The bigger puzzle with Backlund tonight is why Peters kept throwing him out there when he was having a shocker and really wasn’t engaged at all, and making egregious errors, against a team he doesn’t like playing against to begin with.