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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
If we have enough center depth to push Backlund to the 4th line then he absolutely should be playing there. Why wouldn’t you play him on the 4th line?
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You can call him a fourth line center! Fill your boots.
Heck you can call all of them fourth line centers.
But if you want to give Kadri 15 minutes of five on five, and you want Backlund out against the other team's best ... that's 15 more.
That leaves you 9 minutes each for your 2nd and 3rd line centers in Zary and Frost.
Works great!
Backlund will eventually move down to the fourth line when he can no longer play a shut down role, but he'll have 15 minutes a night until that happens.