Quote:
Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
Personally I think he lacks the offensive skill to play on a good top pp unit. He's pretty good defensively but offensively he is run of the mill. I think there's lots of players that would put up 40+ ESP playing with Tkachuk.
He got 2 ppp all season playing 1:39 of pp time per game. Sure it wasn't on the top unit but jeez, that is bad. Good player but ideally a 3C on a contender.
|
He put the same number of points with Frolik and Bennett before Tkachuk arrived. This idea of Backlund being propped up by Matthew just isn’t supported by the facts of Backlunds career. Backlund himself has been shown to give players a bump much more than Tkachuk has.