There a dozen or so things wrong with this team before you even make it to Backlund on the "what's wrong" list. Anybody who was expecting a 34 year old veteran to suddenly become a game breaker because he got the C...well, that's on you for having that kind of silly expectation. Even with the team in the sewer now, I'd much rather see the team have a captain then none.
There's the Flames' team on the ice and the Flames' community stuff off of it. I'd argue the work the team does in the community is infinitely more important that playing a kid's game, and nobody does it better than Backlund off the ice.
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