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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Meh. I will never get on board with the legend of Michael Backlund. The guy is way too inconsistent for my liking and sucks in the playoffs. Was invisible to terrible for a large part of this season. This team needs players that bring it every game not 30-40 games a season.
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I thought Backlund was the Flames’ best skater in the playoffs. He is terribly inconsistent, but his high end is very high when he’s on. He’s also tasked to play a very difficult role on this team. Can’t be easy playing a shutdown role every night and constantly starting in the defensive zone. Regardless, the new coach has Mikael Backlund playing as this team’s #1 center. So it doesn’t really matter what we think of him, he’s Darryl’s new teacher’s pet and we’ll have to see how things continue to unfold.