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David Backes - St. Louis Blues
POS: C
AGE, DOB 29, 5/1/1984
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The captain returns to anchor the Blues' top line. Backes entered the NHL as a right winger, but now brings the same power forward mentality to the center position. He led the Blues with 24 goals last...Click Here to Join For Outlooks on All Players!

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STL  4/27/2013
Backes had two assists and was a plus-2 against the Blackhawks on Saturday. Backes had a down year scoring, as ...Join Now for Full Analysis!

Stat Snapshot
YEAR GP G A PTS +/- PIM SOG PPG PPA SHG GWG SPCT TOI/G PPTOI/G HITS BLK
2006-07 49 10 13 23 6 37 89 2 - 0 2 11.2 - - - -
2007-08 72 13 18 31 -11 99 129 3 - 0 2 10.1 - - - -
2008-09 82 31 23 54 -3 165 208 6 5 2 1 14.9 17:41 2:33 204 52
2009-10 79 17 31 48 -4 106 163 5 3 0 3 10.4 18:18 2:31 266 60
2010-11 82 31 31 62 32 93 211 5 10 0 2 0.0 19:42 2:42 213 40
2011-12 82 24 30 54 15 101 234 8 9 2 4 0.0 20:00 2:40 226 72
2012-13 48 6 22 28 5 62 100 1 4 0 1 0.0 19:37 2:27 158 41

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STL  4/23/2013
Backes leads all Blues' scorers with seven points (3G, 4A) in the month of April. The Blues have struggled to score i...Join Now for Full Analysis!
  4/15/2013
Backes has one assist in his last five games for St. Louis. It has been very up and down, in wh...Join Now for Full Analysis!
  4/6/2013
Backes scored a goal for the second consecutive game Friday night in St. Louis' 3-1 win over Columbus. He added three shots, a hit, a takeaway, a blocked shot and won 14 of 23 faceoffs in 18:38. Backes has a point in each of the p...Join Now for Full Analysis!
  4/5/2013
Backes scored a goal and won 14 of 22 faceoffs Thursday night in St. Louis' shootout win over Chicago. Talk about droughts, this was Backe...Join Now for Full Analysis!
  4/1/2013
Backes picked up an assist as St. Louis defeated Minnesota, 4-1 on Monday. Backes broke a season-high six game...Join Now for Full Analysis!
  3/14/2013
Backes had two assists Thursday night in St. Louis' 3-0 win over Phoenix. Backes hasn't been finding the net ...Join Now for Full Analysis!
  3/13/2013
Blues head coach Ken Hitchcock broke up the Backes/T.J. Oshie combination on the first line, putting the hot-scoring Chris Stewart on his right wing, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Backes and Oshie have each scored one goal in the past 14 games. Hitchcock noted a need for differen...Join Now for Full Analysis!