[Sylvanfan]

One thing about Backlund, is that Conroy himself had the experience at the end of his career. If you look at Craig, he had a really good age 37 season, but fell back the next year. He wanted to go one more year, but had to make the team on a tryout basis, and than after 18 games had to pack it up. So hopefully he can draw on his own experiences with how to handle Backlund.

I'm not as sentimental with Backlund in that I think he has to be a lifetime Flame. If the team isn't in the playoff picture in December....I hope they start asking him to think about moving on, and that there's no guarantee that they will give him a deal the next season.