David Backes on Waivers with this year and another year at $6 mil on his contract. Hmmm, seems like the Blues GM made the right call on that one. Yet another deal he did right by not doing at all...
Backes is a good guy and represented STL well. I just wish they never put that C on his sweater. I think it kept him and the Blues from being the best they could be. You can't argue that he didn't leave it all on the ice every night but I often wondered if he wasn't playing as smart as he should have or could have been. Flying around like a man possessed, taking penalties with a few minutes to go and down by a goal is never a good move. And playing smart can coincide with playing hard. He frequently forgot that.
Perhaps the stray dogs of STL were saddest to see him go...
Looks like he's going to be playing in the minors or kissing away a pretty big chunk of change. My guess is they'll negotiate a buyout and he can call it a career. He has played 13+ years I think. The way he plays that's probably more like 16 or 18 years on his body...
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