That 'from a Calgary Post' It was posted by someone who makes teams for everyone, and actually knows very little about the Flames or Backlund, so please don't think a Flames fan created that, or Flames would even consider it. This would be a very hard no from the Flames. No one trades a #2C for a #7/8 dman (and Holden being right-handed is below Hamilton, Hamonic and Stone by a fair margin - so he's #7 max. Gulutzan doesn't play D on their off hand so left isn't an option - even then you still have Gio/Brodie/Kulak over there)
I think my comparison on their page was - trading the Rangers Zibanejad to Colorado for Dman Mark Barberio and on top of that the Rangers can throw in Goalie prospect Georgiev. So try and look at it from the perspective (adding 4th and B-prospect won't entice the Rangers to make that trade either - let alone retaining salary)

If that's an actual post, what the heck would the Rangers need with a random d man, much less trade their top center when they lack depth? Thanks for killing that in the crib, or we'd see this same post over and over for weeks! lol

BTW, that's kinda harsh on Holden. He played 2nd pairing minutes on a team that made it to the conference semi's. He had a very solid season, his rep suffers from being connected to Staal, who is a different story entirely!! He'd play a similar 2nd pair role on a team that lacks d depth.

the point is take that and run from the rangers perspective.. i didn't think it was that fair at all hence why i was like okay i gotta add at least something. only thing is holden is a left handed shot.... i think he traded brodie hence why he needed the left handed shot.. i don't know too much about backlund but i know he's a decent mid six player. don't know how flames value him though-- obv didn't look to far into who made it

Actually it was kinda harsh on you now that I read it - when I typed it out, it didn't sound as mean in my head - so apologies for that (and yes you're right Holden is left handed and plays Right D.)
Backs quite frankly was our best player for most of last year - takes the toughest assignments and still puts up points - he was up there in Selke voting last year for that reason