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Originally Posted by Duffalufagus
Wowzers! I see no one else has concerns with a 2C that has 12 goals on the year. My mistake. Carry on.
His production is significantly lower than almost every 2C in the playoffs and in several cases the 3C on other teams.
I get that he is really good defensively and usually matches up well against other team's top guys. My only concern this year is whether we are going to get the secondary scoring we need when the ice shrinks a bit for the top line. I think we will, but a deep run will require Backlund to be a big contributor IMO.
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In a perfect world he would be our 3C so I get the concern and agree with you.
The worst part is that 2nd line has been fairly stagnant offensively for weeks and we are going to need to get Mangiapane and Toffoli going offensively, especially at ES, to make some noise in the playoffs.
Most ppl around here won't allow you to talk about Backlund not being good enough offensively because of the other things he provides but I agree we need to see more out of him if we want to be successful.
Time will tell. We have dark horse Ruzicka waiting in the wings if push comes to shove but Backs will continue to get plenty of opportunity to develop chemistry with his 2nd line wingers.
Hopefully it starts to click here for them soon.