{"id":140738,"date":"2025-09-08T02:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/140738\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T02:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:59:05","slug":"tj-oshie-says-nicklas-backstrom-told-him-that-his-bodys-feeling-great-and-hes-having-an-absolute-blast-playing-in-the-shl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/140738\/","title":{"rendered":"TJ Oshie says Nicklas Backstrom told him that his body\u2019s \u2018feeling great\u2019 and he\u2019s \u2018having an absolute blast\u2019 playing in the SHL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicklas Backstrom returned to professional hockey this summer after his contract with the Washington Capitals expired and his family moved back to his native Sweden. The 37-year-old centerman signed with his boyhood SHL club, Bryn\u00e4s IF<\/a>, in July and according to former Caps teammate and neighbor TJ Oshie, he\u2019s loving life back on the ice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just texting with him last night,\u201d Oshie said in a recent interview with the \u201cSpittin\u2019 Chiclets\u201d podcast<\/a>. \u201cHe said he is having a blast out there. I had two questions like, \u2018How\u2019s the body feeling and are you having fun?\u2019 And he said, \u2018The body\u2019s feeling great,\u2019 and he\u2019s \u2018Having an absolute blast.\u2019 So I\u2019m super happy for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oshie brought his own family back to Minnesota this summer<\/a> after retiring from hockey in June due to chronic back pain. The 38-year-old husband and father of four lived just a couple doors down from the Backstroms whose children were close with his own. He understood why Backstrom decided to leave the U.S. but couldn\u2019t help admitting he was a little jealous of his opportunity to keep playing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know they wanted to go back to Sweden and get closer to family and maybe he\u2019ll come on and tell you guys about the decision to play again and stuff. But I\u2019m super happy for him,\u201d Oshie said. \u201cI told him right in the text message, \u2018Dude, I miss it so much\u2026 I\u2019m happy that you\u2019re out there having fun again snapping it around.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Backstrom appears like he never lost a beat despite missing the previous two NHL seasons on LTIR with hip issues. He recorded his first competitive assist during Bryn\u00e4s\u2019 Champions Hockey League victory over Austrian club KAC Klagenfurt on Thursday<\/a> after impressing in SHL preseason action.<\/p>\n

Oshie said he wasn\u2019t surprised his old pal has still got it, quipping that Backstrom \u2013 the Capitals all-time assists leader \u2013 won\u2019t want to quit hockey any time soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the most natural passer I\u2019ve ever seen. He\u2019s probably gonna be doing that until he is 60,\u201d Oshie joked. He reminisced on how perfectly Backstrom would pass pucks to scoring areas even they didn\u2019t look technically correct.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of holes that he would hit when I was on the power play with him and Ovi to go through everyone,\u201d he recalled. \u201cSome guys they sauce you a puck and it\u2019s just a little too high and you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh dang. Tough one.\u2019 When he would sauce it and it would be too high, you knew it picked up speed on the way down or something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Backstrom assisted on 81 of Oshie\u2019s 192 career goals with the Caps.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne time he passed it \u2013 I\u2019m not kidding \u2013 a saucer pass through my legs and then like through the back two defenders for a empty net one timer for Ovi,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018How?\u2019 Usually you\u2019d flinch and try to stop it, but I just knew the second it left his stick, he\u2019s trying to do this. He\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicklas Backstrom returned to professional hockey this summer after his contract with the Washington Capitals expired and his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-140738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}