I love methodical, dry, unemotional Bäckström as much as everybody else, but I still like to remember a certain effusive, overwhelmed draft pick in 2006.
“Ovi told me that ‘I’ll take the cup first, then I’ll give it to you’, which I already had a feeling he would. We’ve been on this roller coaster up and down together, and finally we’re here. Finally we’re champions.”