BREAKING David Backes Signs With Blues Announces Retirement.
A long time NHLer and former Boston Bruin has decided to hang up his skates.�
Former Bruins' forward David Backes signed a one day contract with the St. Louis Blues on Thursday and announced his retirement.�
Backes was the Blues longtime captain before heading over to Boston and playing for the Bruins for 4 years where he totalled 94 points in 217 games which included 39 goals.�
In total during his time in the NHL Backes played in 965 games for the Blues, Bruins and Anaheim Ducks and totalled 561 points.�
Here's an excerpt from his announcement about his time in Boston:
My stretch in Boston is something I am so grateful for. It was an amazing group of men that I was able to play with and grow alongside of. Arriving there and being a complementary piece to the great core that had been there since they won the Stanley Cup in 2011 was an incredible learning experience for me. I learned about leading from the rear and was able to pour into teammates in ways I had never been able to do before.
Our remarkable march to the Stanley Cup Final in 2019 was filled with some of the highest highs and lowest lows I have experienced in the game, but I am appreciative of all of them. I never thought I would so intimately live the words I said when leaving St Louis: "If the team I was playing on wasn't going to win the Stanley Cup, I hoped it would be the Blues."
Our remarkable march to the Stanley Cup Final in 2019 was filled with some of the highest highs and lowest lows I have experienced in the game, but I am appreciative of all of them. I never thought I would so intimately live the words I said when leaving St Louis: "If the team I was playing on wasn't going to win the Stanley Cup, I hoped it would be the Blues."
I found in the latter parts of my time in Boston that you can take something you would never ask for - like being a healthy scratch - and turn it into something good. It was a humbling lesson learned through sport that will permeate through life.
We wish him all the best.�
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