It happened again, just as it's been happening throughout his career.
Mikael Backlund, one of the very few Flames first rounders of note, has already been banished to the fourth line.
He started off the season with Lance Bouma and Michael Frolik, and they looked fine. In reality, Bob Hartley's initial lines for the Flames looked fine, but they weren't scoring right away, so the top line aside, everything was shaken up.
And part of that shakeup involved replacing Frolik with Brandon Bollig, and punting Backlund down the lineup.
Again.
Leaving behind the early days of 2013-14
The 2013-14 season wasn't a particularly pleasant one.