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Old 09-29-2025, 02:29 PM   #54
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He mentioned he likes to battle down low in the D zone vs watching battles from the wing. I also reeeeeeeally don't like hearing that he worked all summer on faceoffs with Michal Handzus, only to show up at camp and find himself on the wing again.

I sure wish Kadri and Backlund would spend a summer or two working on faceoffs.
Such an over rated concern.

The difference between a top 25 face off guy and Backlund is about 4.5%. Over a season that's 65 more face off wins or less than one a game.

Why not win more of them, but give me a guy that can make reads in the triangle in his own zone over the face off wizard 100 times out of 100.
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