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Originally Posted by fleury
re: Backlund, because the quote button isn't working, if you look at the championship calibre teams, where would he fit in with Boston, Toronto, Colorado, Tampa, Las Vegas, etc? I do think offensively last year he punched above his weight, but skillset wise, he's not up there IMO.
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His 45 points would have had him tied for 2nd on the Avs forwards for points. Now that is because some of them had injuries. But he'd probably be filling the Burakovsky or Kadri role on that team and produces at a similar level.
On the Bruins he'd replace Krejci and is probably better than him at this stage.
On the leafs he would be behind the big 4 and likely the third line centre because of the unusual duo of Tavares and Matthews they have.
On Vegas he'd be right there with Karlsson (46) and Marchessault (47) in terms of forward production.
Even on good teams he slots as a top 6 forward.