Those that covered David Backes' hockey life, you'd think he was the big, bad bodyguard you'd meet at the front door checking your ID at the nightlife establishment.
David Backes grew up playing hockey, soccer and baseball in Spring Lake Park. He ended up playing 15 seasons in the NHL with the St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins and Anaheim Ducks.
EDINA, Minn. Of all of the painful things that can happen to the human body while playing hockey at the game’s fastest and most intense levels from cut lips to dislocated shoulders to torn knee ligaments to concussions the one ailment that would change David Backes’ life most dramatically came in the form of a stomach ache.
This week’s edition of Anaheim Ducks News & Rumors contains information about Jack Eichel, David Backes and a pair of Ducks prospects in Artyom Galimov and Thimo Nickl.
Backes spent 10 years in St. Louis, tallying 460 points (206 goals, 254 assists) in 727 games.
Backes was a second-round pick of the Blues (62nd overall) back in 2003 and became one of the more prominent power forwards in the league, notching six seasons of more than 20 goals and seven years of more than 200 hits.
It is a veteran-laded waiver wire on Sunday, as David Backes and Jack Johnson have both been placed on waivers.
Put your spring wardrobe on hold and throw on that hockey sweater, because the Stanley Cup Playoffs are finally here. It took up until the very end of the weekend to know exactly who was in and what the match-ups would be.
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