Retirement
After his playing career, Backstrom became an assistant coach in the NHL with the Los Angeles Kings, and also a head coach at the University of Denver, where we won the 1986 Spencer Penrose Award as NCAA coach of the year. Backstrom then coached the Phoenix Roadruners of the International Hockey League from 1990 to 1992. He was founder and commissioner of Roller Hockey International, and is currently the president/owner of the Colorado Eagles of the Central Hockey League.
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“Douglas. Now remains a sweet reversion—
We may boldly spend, upon the hope
Of what is to come in.
A comfort of retirement lives in this.
Hotspur. A rendezvous, a home to fly unto.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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