Posts About "David Backes"
Bruins 4th Line in Limbo After Demotions
September 30th, 2018 The NHL Preseason is winding down, and each club has given onlookers a dose of what can be expected throughout the 2018-19 campaign. It's important to remember that teams didn't play their 18 starting skaters in every game. Exhibition rosters are riddled with prospects and depth players who may not see NHL ice as of October. It's...
Backes Trade Worth the Investment
June 13th, 2018 When it comes to team building, Boston Bruins' general manager Don Sweeney has done as good as job as anyone at creating an excellent lineup with an impressive pipeline still set to churn out talent over the next few years. From draft picks to smart decisions like the re-signing of Brad Marchand, David Pastrnak and Kevan Miller to...
Bruins Can't Catch a Break With NHL DoPS
March 28th, 2018 NHL officials and the NHL Department of Player Safety have been wildly inconsistent all season. It's nothing new in the world of sports to see a league get decisions wrong, but the consistent inconsistencies that have arisen this season in all walks of the game are laughable at best and its caused many to grow increasingly impatient and...
Breathtaking Bruins Beginning to Defy Logic
March 9th, 2018 With a swipe of his stick, Brad Marchand moved the puck less than a foot. In doing so, he authored another chapter of a tale that is becoming more and more epic by the day. And I use the word "epic" in the literal, literary sense. As in Odysseus's 10-year journey home following the Trojan War, or Dante's journey through Hell...
David Backes Suspended for Hit on Nielsen
March 7th, 2018 The NHL's Department of Player Safety (DoPS) has suspended Boston Bruins' forward David Backes for three games for interference. The incident occurred in the dying seconds of the first period of Tuesday's tilt between the Bruins and Detroit Red Wings. Backes initiated late contact up high on Red Wings' forward Frans Nielsen and was...
Backes & Bruins Batter Blues
February 2nd, 2018 When the Boston Bruins' 18-game point streak came to an end Tuesday night versus the Anaheim Ducks, it did so with a thud. In their first period of play after the All-Star break the B's looked like their hearts and minds were still in sunny Tampa Bay, despite the fact that their lone representative at the All-Star Game was not in...
