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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Karlsson is playing like at the very least 1B centre in 60 playoff games over the last 4 years. +18 41 pts
Brock Nelson has 15 goals and 28 pts in his last 35 playoff games over the last 2 seasons.
They are value contracts when they are the best players on the team in important games.
Karlson is a prime example - he scored 43 goals in 2017-18 and did a 1 yr deal for 5.25 and fell off to 24 goals to sign a 5.9 x 8
Backlund was coming off a 22 goal year and in the middle of a fall off to 14 goal year (-21) when the Flames extended him at age 29 to a 5.35 x 6.
Who does the contract negotiations for the Flames? Were they getting kick back from the agents? Maybe if the cap were to have doubled by now it might have been rationalized. There is basically no chance that Backlund will ever get more than 22 goals in a year for his whole career.
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LOL. Backlund's contract is value when compared to his peers in production and role. Karlsson is a 2C. he doesn't play on the top line. And if you think his production is an example, he scores about the same and is paid about the same.
But thanks for moving the goalposts into PO production. I'm sure that Karlsson's post season production has nothing to do with the fact he doesn't have to check the opposition top line.