Of the RWs in the league there are handful that no team would trade for Backlund (much less the still a work in progress Bennett) and a bunch where we'd lose that trade.
You don't get Kane, Marchand, Laine, Kucherov, Tarasenko, Ovie, or maybe even Wheeler. I don't think you get Radulov or Pastrnak. So would you trade Backs for Granlund? Atkinson? Kessel? Much lower down the list and you are actually losing point production in addition to losing your best checking centre.
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