Geoff Ward can't say enough about the swagger of Mikael Backlund and his Selke level play these past two seasons.
https://twitter.com/NHLFlames/status...06012856373250
I feel confident in saying that Backlund will be one of the Flames seven protected forwards in the Expansion Draft.
Matthew Tkachuk
Mikael Backlund
Elias Lindholm
Dillon Dubé
Andrew Mangiapane
Sean Monahan
Johnny Gaudreau