By what metric?
I think you need to post up the people that are "favorites" for this award this year and compare him to them by the stats they use to determine who is a Selke caliber forward. I believe someone did it for Crosby and Bergeron to show that Sid should be in the convo. So I am sure you can find that information for your boy Backstrom.
Guys like Crosby, Bergeron, and Barkov, they aren't living on rep for the sake of it, they're known as dan good 200ft players.
I'm actually curious to see where Backstrom stacks up with those guys. Not even in a hateful way, genuinely curious.