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Originally Posted by ComixZone
32 Points in 54 games
CF%: 54.35
SF%: 55.34
GF%: 49.25
xGF%: 57.44
HDCF%: 55.47
HDGF%: 41.94
27 Points in 48 games
CF%: 54.84
SF%: 53.33
GF%: 46.55
xGF%: 54.06
HDCF%: 55.76
HDGF%: 40.74
One player is 25 and signed for 4 years at $4.4M, and the other is 32 and signed for 3 years at $5.35M. One player is physical, drives the net, hits and shows up in the playoffs while the other is a perimeter player who vanishes in the playoffs.
To say this is an overpayment just doesn't jive with me. Centres are worth a lot, and players with the level of physical engagement that Benny plays with tend to get paid because that stuff matters.
Interesting to see both players underperform their xGF in a pretty significant way.
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Assuming player A is Backlund, a little unfair. He was strapped to Nordstrom all year, Reider all playoffs last year but he's scored arguably the biggest playoff GWG in this iteration of the Flames' history. He's had some tough series but against guys like MacKinnon and Getzlaf where his defensemen (whether the Hanifin-Hamonic pair in 2019 or Dougie Hamilton in 2017 or Russell-Wideman in 2015) were outmatched.