Bruins Daily · Feb 9, 2017
With new coach, Bruins adjusting on the fly
David Backes is no stranger to seeing coaches fired in the middle of the season.
A coaching change was made twice during Backes’ 10 years in St. Louis. In 2009-10, Davis Payne replaced Andy Murray. Two seasons later, Payne was shown the door in place of another recently fired head coach, Ken Hitchcock.
The Hitchcock hiring came in Backes’ first season as the Blues captain. Hitchcock won the Jack Adams Award at the end of the year as he guided St. Louis to a second-place finish in the Western Conference.