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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Your disdain for Backlund is one of the great mysteries of Calgarypuck
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My annoyance with him has nothing to do with the above post. Nothing I’ve said above is conjecture with his demand or comments last offseason or his battling with Sutter (who drafted him) this year and comments on garbage bag day.
As for a captain role, if any player on the Flames openly campaigned for captain, nevermind held it over the Flames as an “or else” contractual demand, whether it be Backlund, or Tkachuk last year, or anyone else, my response on that would be the same. I don’t know of any Flame who has campaigned to be a captain if the team, outside of Tkachuk rumours last year. It went pretty organically from Lowry to Conroy to Iginla to Gio in the last 23 years.