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.
“There was two [coaching changes] during my time there and the second one was two or three months into my captaincy,” Backes recalled following Wednesday’s practice at Warrior Ice Arena.