game. Backes has stepped up time and again to fight big-name players (Corey Perry, Rick Nash, Jonathan Toews to name a few), and to defend his teammates in heated situations. His leadership qualities and willingness to never back down has earned him the “A” on his sweater in certain games, and has even sparked talk of him being the next Blues captain after Eric Brewer is no longer a Blue.
Jonathan Toews
26 January 2010
5 August 2009
e Jackets all joined Detroit in the playoffs. Chicago has improved drastically since drafting Jonathan Toews third overall in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, since adding Patrick Kane, Cristobal Huet, Brian Campbell and Marian Hossa to their lineup.
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19 May 2009
the Datsyuk line come out, he should find a way to get out his top young skaters, Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews. The risk the Hawks would take is that Datsyuk is still a great defensive forward, but Holmstrom and Hossa are not considered to be top back-checkers. Kane and Toews have worked some magic in the playoffs, especially in Game 6 of their Semi-Final Series against the Vancouver Canucks when Kane scored his first-career playoff hat-trick.
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