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Originally Posted by Sandman
Backlund works his butt off, and never cheats the game. He ain't the problem.
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As a player he's far from the problem, sure. But taking on the captaincy adds additional responsibility, leadership and otherwise, and this team, looking tepid, as they did last year and many years that he has been part of the leadership team, can go ignored. More pissed off and wearing this on behalf of the team ala Zadorov and less of "we have to pick it up" as was a recent response.
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
All I know is there's a reason this particular roster unanimously voted for Backlund to get the C.
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* if he stayed and committed to that at the end of last season.
It's somewhat telling that the only 4 pre-crested HC jerseys didn't include him (and did Lindholm). Meaning he hadn't committed at whatever deadline was required for that in July or August.
Asking for captaincy (the Sutter didn't give him last year) as part of contract negotiations (on a 2 year deal) doesn't sit right with me that those are ties together, just as it didn't for me when Tkachuk was asking for the same 2 years back (though at least his would've been an 8 or 9 year deal).