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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Backlund has scored between 45-53 points the last 4 years. St. Louis' 2C had 54 points this year. It's not earth shattering production, but on a good team it can get stuff done.
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A lot of talk this off-season has been around "where did Sean Monahan go in the playoffs", but Mikael Backlund's vanishing act was something that absolutely crushed us.
Backlund got absolutely decimated by the Avs during match-ups, and that really surprised me. I think we're going into a season where we're going to have a lot of highly motivated players - and Backlund is going to be one of those guys. I'm expecting huge seasons from the Tkachuk-Backlund duo.