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Originally Posted by keenan87
Personally, I would rather have Hoffman than Backlund going into this next season.
Gaudreau-Monahan-Hoffman
Tkachuk-Lindholm-Mangiapane
As per your point, why are you talking about current unsigned players when the expansion is next year .. you know with a whole new crop of Free Agents?
As for Tyler Johnson.. I think they are similar players with similar values. By no means do I think Backlund is a clearly better player than Johnson.
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Hoffman crossed my mind, but I would be very leery of removing a player with Backlund's defensive capabilites and replacing him with a player with Hoffman's defensive limitations. McDavid and Driasatl would feast on Hoffman, for example.
My point is about replacing Backlund. You can't get equal value in trade, so you would be giving up premium assets to upgrade him. He gets paid market value right now.
I know the context here is the expansion draft, so IF Bennet takes a huge step, and IF someone (Lindholm) steps up in a two-way center role, and IF someone else can replace Lindholm on the Right wing, then exposing Backlund has some merit.
But for now, any talk of addition by subtracting Backlund or freeing up his cap space for the sake of the cap space is silly IMO.