Do you actually read any of the posts or do you just see Backes and go all Foghorn Leghorn on us? Nobody is blaming the slump on Backes. The whole team is playing like chit.

And maybe take the blinders off or at least adjust them a little so you can get a peek at what is obvious to eveyone else. Backes is a great player, maybe MVP material. But he takes too many bad penalties at really critical times. He was really bad about it last year in the playoffs and he's done it a few times in the last several games. That's not what you want your "C" to be doing...