Andy Strickland: David Backes signs a one-day contract with the St. Louis Blues and retires.
Jeremy Rutherford: Backes: “How I hope to be remembered is a guy that gave it all and did everything in my power, didn’t waste an opportunity, left it all on the ice and was a great teammate to the guys that I was wearing the same sweater as.”
Jeremy Rutherford: Backes continued: “The statistical component of it – the on-ice success as a team – that is what it is.