.Is simply letting go of your stick when someone taps it the new diving?
I wish hockey had better analytics. I'm not sure if it's an empty "old school" belief or not, but just watching Backes you can tell he's clearly a "hard to play against" type guy...it's probably not worth his pay, but I wish it were better quantified.Backes has 9 points in his last 18 games after going 0 for the first 12 games. Not exactly a blazing pace (and getting PP1 time helps), but he has at least been useful of late.
Given what Ritchie did to Backes last year and his chippy douchiness tonight, it's getting to be high time someone steps up to challenge him