You might recognize the "Lighting the Lamp" feature from the Game Time paper. Rick Ackerman has been nice enough to send over his column for the website. "Lighting the Lamp" will be featured every home game day.
Lighting the Lamp with Rick Ackerman
If there were one word that means erudite, resilient and resolute, that word would have a picture of Blues' Captain David Backes next to it in the dictionary. Off to a slow start and already banged and bruised in ten previous NHL contests, Backes took control Saturday in the Blues' Halloween victory over Minnesota and led by example, scoring a spook-tacular (with thanks to John Kelly) game winning goal in overtime on a nice pass from rookie Ty Rattie.