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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Not from me. I have argued that both need to go and have certainly showed my displeasure for Backlund since MacKinnon basically destroyed him in the playoffs.
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It's kind of laughable how you always singled handled blamed that on Backlund.
Look at the head to head at 5v5 in that series.
Backlund vs MacKinnon:
TOI: 51 Minutes
Corsi For: 52.1%
xGF: 54.0%
HDCF: 66.7%
On Ice Shooting: 0.00%
On Ice Save: .914
PDO: .914
Goals For: 0
Goals Against: 3
Backlund got unlucky that series and got PDO'd against a guy that is a top 5 player in the league. His +/- has been poor in the playoffs recently, but when you are getting defensive matchups against top players in the league that will happen. It wasn't just on Backlund that Mackinnon found a way to get behind our defense for breakaways / odd man rushes in that series.
Acting like that somehow makes him a bad player is hilarious.