We’ve talked a little in this offseason about bad lines and bad 3-on-3 combos, but we haven’t yet discussed actual line changes that would produce positive things. And while David Backes has spent close to the past decade of his career at center, we want to see what he can do for the St. Louis Blues at right wing.
Jeremy Rutherford, beat writer for the Blues at the Post-Dispatch, answered a question on the topic during his offseason Blues chat Thursday:
JR, Does Backes prefer to play Center or Wing? It doesn’t make sense for Hitch to have played Backes at Center when he had Stastny available.