Boston

You're gonna have to offer a lot more than moving from a 6th to a 3rd in order to move Backes

Thats a Myth. He's only being paid 4M dollars of real money his last 2 seasons, so it doesn't matter what his cap hit is to a team that isn't near the upper limit. They'll look at it like they aren't in danger of hitting the ceiling of the cap anyways and see he's only paid 3M next year and then he's playing for 1M the following season. The real money is whats the most important and Backes playing for 3M next season isn't bad and playing for 1M the following season; He's much better than anything you can get in UFA for 1M, hell Jay Beagle got 3M x4 years and he's 33. Backes is much better than he.

Yeah they can use him, but they'll use him as leverage to get more. Like, " well give us more to take backes contract or we wont make the deal"