{"id":29714,"date":"2025-07-28T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29714\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:52:09","slug":"nicklas-backstrom-to-resume-hockey-career-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29714\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicklas Backstrom to resume hockey career in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"

GAVLE, Sweden \u2014 Nicklas Backstrom<\/a> is resuming his hockey career back in his native Sweden with Brynas IF after missing all of last NHL season because of a nagging hip injury.<\/p>\n

The Swedish club announced Monday that Backstrom was signing there to play this coming season. The 37-year-old center\u2019s NHL contract with the Washington Capitals expired this summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have always felt that I would like to represent Brynas again someday if the opportunity arose,\u201d Backstrom said in a statement about rejoining the organization where he started. \u201cAfter undergoing rehab and being away from the game for almost two seasons, I feel very charged and full of energy to contribute to the club\u2019s future successes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Backstrom\u00a0underwent hip resurfacing surgery\u00a0in June 2022, hoping to address a chronic issue, and by training camp in September 2023\u00a0insisted he felt\u00a0\u201cway better.\u201d He last played in a competitive, meaningful game on Oct. 29, 2023, saying on Nov. 1 he was\u00a0taking a leave of absence\u00a0because of what the team called an \u201congoing injury situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before that, Backstrom skated in more than 1,200 games with the Capitals, recording more than 1,100 points, and helped them win the Stanley Cup in 2018. The Capitals in a statement thanked Backstrom and wished him luck in the future, saying he \u201cgave everything he had each and every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAVLE, Sweden \u2014 Nicklas Backstrom is resuming his hockey career back in his native Sweden with Brynas IF…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-29714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}