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PHOTO: Flames whiff on new goalie Backstrom's nameplate

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Niklas Backstrom was once a William M. Jennings Award winner for helping the Minnesota Wild to the NHL's best goals-against average.

Now, nine years later, he's a salary dump with a misspelled nameplate.

In the Flames' defense, they were quite close.

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