You may've noticed that David Backes didn't play much in the third period against the Blackhawks last night. Or you may not've noticed because the third period of last night's game was amazing and had a lot of stuff going on. Either or, Backes may have re-injured himself.
No word yet on Backes, who didn't play late in the game. But the Andronov recall is likely linked to Backes' status. #stlblues
— Jeremy Rutherford (@jprutherford) December 29, 2013
Quite an eventful 48 hours for Andronov, who scored hat-trick for Wolves, was called up to Blues, reassigned to Wolves & called up to Blues.
— Jeremy Rutherford (@jprutherford) December 29, 2013
Update: Backes has an upper-body injury and will be re-evaluated tomorrow. #stlblues
— Jeremy Rutherford (@jprutherford) December 29, 2013
You have to love that middle of the season grind, when half of the team is broken. That's one of the issues with playing the style of hockey that the Blues do.