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David Backes Is One Of The Nicest Guys Around

04/16/2015 at 4:09pm EDT

from Tom Powers of the Pioneer Press,

He's one of the nicest guys you'll ever come across -- smiling, polite and with choir-boy good looks. He's also a very talented and hard-working hockey player out of Spring Lake Park High School and Minnesota State Mankato.

Yup, he's a local boy and a proud former Olympian. Oh, and one other thing about him: Minnesota hockey fans hate his guts. Just the sight of him gets their blood-pressure rising and their pulses racing to dangerously high levels.

He's David Backes, captain of the St. Louis Blues. And he is Public Enemy No. 1 during this first-round series.

"I take that as a vote of confidence that I'm doing my job," Backes said. "That's part of the business, and I'm hopefully going to be Public Enemy No. 1 this summer. That's my goal."

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