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Originally Posted by Textcritic
He really isn't. Nugent-Hopkins gets a tonne of powerplay time, and every year around half of his production comes there. Backlund regularly outplays The Tenderness at even strength.
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I get your point... I'm trying to take out my bias here.
Interesting point... RNH was the first overall pick in 2011, and out of the top 5 picks that year, Edmonton has touched (or wrecked) 3 of them which I wouldn't want on my team.... I'd take either of the other two and we will find out how one of those picks goes this year.
RNH has certainly slide down his draft class rankings... but I wonder if an unbiased person would take him over Backlund still today, RNH is younger, and we all must admit here, Backlund has progressed slower and is more of a late bloomer - which is not a bad thing, maybe he peaks later and has a slower downward descent much like Gio had, and maybe with that, he's better then RNH today. I still think it's a close call and a "pick me" type bet - so then I must fall on RNH is younger and as a gambling man, I'd take that.