Fair point. You can actually thank Oiler fans for changing my point of view on #1 centres after they cried when people refused to call lord larsson a top pairing dman .

By definition there has to be 62 top pairing dmen in the league, soo by that measure then he would be a top pairing dman.

Not trying to argue that Backlund would be a #1C on a cup contender. But I do think he is still a #1C.
- Saskabush

Was similar to when we had Horcoff as our #1. He had stats that backed him up. Just wasn't pretty