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Originally Posted by bdubbs
If you want to bottom out to get any of the possible franchise/superstar players in the next few drafts, then you expose Backlund or trade him. Which is a good or bad thing depending on how you view the Flames.
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They will not expose him in expansion. Trading Bennett all but ensures that, if there was ever any doubt which to me there wasn’t.
Having said that, talking about Backlund like he is our most important forward is crazy.
Life will go on without Backlund. I love the player but some people talk like he is the key to this teams success.
If that is the case then we are in major trouble.
He is a 32 yo 3rd line C.