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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Nugent-Hopkins is certainly an upgrade on Backlund offensively, but definitely not in terms of overall game. However, I do think he'd be better-suited to the 2C role than Backlund.
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You can never say never with the Oilers but trading RNH for Backlund would be a preposterous trade for even them. RNH is younger and has more offensive upside. Backlund's 6 goals would simply make their secondary scoring issues far worse.