| Position | Defenceman |
| Shoots | Left |
| Height Weight |
6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 210 lb (95 kg) |
| NHL Team F. Teams |
Columbus Blue Jackets New York Rangers St. Louis Blues |
| Nationality |  Swedish |
| Born | April 28 1980 , Alingsås, Sweden |
| NHL Draft | 24th overall, 1998 St. Louis Blues |
| Pro Career | 1998 – present |
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Competitor for Sweden |
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| Men's ice hockey | ||
| Olympic | ||
| Gold | 2006 Turin | |
| World Championship | ||
| Silver | 2004 Prague | |
Christian Bäckman (born April 28, 1980) is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman, who is currently an unrestricted free agent after playing for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL) during the 2008-09 season.
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Bäckman was drafted by St. Louis Blues in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, 1st round, 24th overall. It was not until the 2002–03 NHL season that he got a contract for play in the NHL. He only played four games for St. Louis in his first season, spending the rest of the season playing for Worcester Ice Cats in the American Hockey League (AHL). Between 2003–04 and 2007–08 he was a regular for St. Louis recording 64 points (19 goals, 45 assists), and 130 penalty minutes in 228 games.
Bäckman is a big defenceman, moving confidently with the puck who is often seen successfully dumping it towards the net which gives his teammates in front of the goaltender good scoring chances.
During the 2004–05 NHL lockout Bäckman played for his Swedish youth club Frölunda HC in Elitserien where he totalled 19 points in 50 games, winning the Elitserien playoffs.
St. Louis announced on August 10, 2006, that the club re-signed Bäckman for a multi-year contract, although no contract details was released. According to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet the contract gives Bäckman 50 million Swedish kronor (approx. $7 million) over three years.
On February 26, 2008, Bäckman was traded to the New York Rangers in exchange for a 4th round draft pick. On March 2, 2008, in his second game as a Ranger, Bäckman scored his first goal as a Ranger on Antero Niittymäki of the Philadelphia Flyers, off assists from Brendan Shanahan and Scott Gomez.
On July 2, 2008, Bäckman was traded, along with Fedor Tyutin to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Nikolai Zherdev and Dan Fritsche.
Bäckman is married to wife Jeanette and has two children, a boy and a girl. He spends the off season in Gothenburg, Sweden.
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1998–99 | Västra Frölunda HC | SEL | 49 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1999–00 | Västra Frölunda HC | SEL | 27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2000–01 | Västra Frölunda HC | SEL | 50 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 32 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2001–02 | Västra Frölunda HC | SEL | 44 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 38 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||
| 2002–03 | Worcester IceCats | AHL | 72 | 8 | 19 | 27 | 66 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 2002–03 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2003–04 | Worcester IceCats | AHL | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2003–04 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 66 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 2004–05 | Frölunda HC | SEL | 50 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 40 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 10 | ||
| 2005–06 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 52 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 48 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2006–07 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 61 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2007–08 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 45 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2007–08 | New York Rangers | NHL | 18 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||
| 2008–09 | Columbus Blue Jackets | NHL | 56 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| SEL totals | 220 | 13 | 33 | 46 | 128 | 36 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 20 | ||||
| NHL totals | 302 | 23 | 56 | 79 | 182 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 16 | ||||
| Preceded by Marty Reasoner |
St. Louis Blues first round draft pick 1998 |
Succeeded by Barret Jackman |
| This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Christian Bäckman. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Ice Hockey Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. |
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