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Originally Posted by Textcritic
People need to stop spouting this nonsense. Even if Backlund is playing on the "third line" in no world is he a "third line center." As of today, Mikael Backlund is a better-than-average second line centre, and regardless of where he shows up on a depth chart he will be paid as such. $5.0 m for three years seems abundantly fair.
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Mikael Backlund is not a second line center on a team that expects to go anywhere near a Stanley Cup. For the love of God, he's behind Kadri on our depth chart and Kadri is barely a second line center anymore.
Here's a question for you... let's say we choose to re-sign Backlund and not Lindholm. How far do you think we're gonna go with Kadri at #1 and Backlund at #2?
Regardless of all that... my original point was that IN CALGARY, he's a third line center, and $5M on a #3C is a luxury reserved for teams that are perenial deep threats in the playoffs - not teams that are perenial threats to draft 16th overall.