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Originally Posted by DoubleK
You are exposing Backlund all day, every day. Not that has anything to do with his play or his value to the team, quite simply, I don't think Seattle will bite on his contract.
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Not every player over 30 with a big AAV is a bad contract.
Hornqvist is a little over 2 years older than Backlund and earning every penny of his contract (though his numbers were down the previous years).
Backlund will likely be at least 4-4.5M player in his last years. Guys like him do not grow on trees. Cite a swedish forward who really fell off around age 30? Loui Eriksson is the only the comes to my mind...(I'm sure there are a few others, but it doesn't seem nearly as common as with guys like Ladd, Lucic, Okposo, Skinner, Neal etc.