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Former St. Louis Blues captain David Backes said he got goosebumps thinking about joining a team that already includes centers Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci.These guys get it, the free-agent forward said Friday after signing with the Boston Bruins in the first 30 minutes of NHL free agency. They know what its going to take to win. Thats what sold me on it. ... If you have prominent players that are putting team first, the rest of the guys really have no choice.A two-time U.S. Olympian, Backes agreed to a five-year, $30 million deal with the Bruins and said he hoped to help the Original Six club return to the playoffs for the first time in three seasons. Listing off some of the players already on the roster, Backes said it was more of a retooling than a rebuilding.Some guys would have looked at it like, Youve already got Bergeron and Krejci, where will I play? David said, Boy, I get to play with Bergeron and Krejci, Bruins general manager Don Sweeney said. These guys are going to be the leading core to get us where we want to go. The younger guys are going to have to get on board.Backes, 32, is the first major addition this offseason for a team that won the 2011 Stanley Cup and returned to the finals two years later. The team re-signed defenseman Torey Krug and bought out the contract of defenseman Dennis Seidenberg on Thursday. Free agents Loui Eriksson and Lee Stempniak agreed to deals with the Canucks and Carolina, respectively.Also signing with Boston on the first day of free agency were defensemen Tommy Cross and John-Michael Liles, goalie Anton Khudobin, and forwards Riley Nash, Tyler Randell and Tim Schaller.Theyre trying to get pieces back that will get them over the hump, Backes said. They barely missed the playoffs last year, and if they had [made it] I dont think anyone would have wanted to play them.Backes had 21 goals and 24 assists last season for the Blues. In a 10-year NHL career -- all with St. Louis -- he has 206 goals and 254 assists in 727 regular-season games.Backes, whos from Minneapolis, said it was difficult for his family to leave St. Louis, the team that selected him in the second round of the 2003 draft.It was tough in that its all Ive known, he said in a conference call with reporters. It happens a lot in this business, it hasnt happened to us. But change is good.Backes bid farewell to St. Louis in a lengthy Twitter post:Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said talks with his captain broke down over the length of the deal.I had no problem bringing David Backes back, and I wish we could have, he said. I wasnt comfortable with the term. It was problematic for me, personally, to [sign] out that far with players. Theres analytical data [that] shows where players play at their peak, and we wanted to try and stay within a window. We were ready to stretch that window but only to a certain level.But Backes said he has a lot left.Im 32, not 52, he said. I think theres plenty of legs and energy left in me. I expect to still be at the top of my game.The Associated Press contributed to this report.Houston Astros Gear . PAUL, Minn. Bob Watson Astros Jersey . "Thank you for the warm welcome," Beckham said on an 80-degree February morning. In this case, it was soccer weather. The sport moved a step closer to returning to South Florida on Wednesday, when Beckham confirmed he has exercised his option to purchase a Major League Soccer expansion franchise in Miami. https://www.cheapastros.com/2283o-dean-deetz-jersey-astros.html . The 18th player to shoot 60 on the tour, Jamieson settled for par on the final hole when his 15-foot birdie chip grazed the edge of the hole and stayed out. After opening with rounds of 66 and 73 to make the cut by a stroke, he had 11 birdies in the bogey-free round. J. R. Richard Astros Jersey . 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The injury bothered Bledsoe in the Suns victory over the Clippers on Monday and he sat out the teams home loss to Memphis on Thursday night.Former British Cycling technical director Shane Sutton has again defended himself against allegations of sexism, discrimination and making inappropriate remarks towards riders and hopes to be totally exonerated by an independent review.Sutton resigned from his post with British Cycling in April after being suspended pending an investigation into allegations made against him by a number of Olympic and Paralympic athletes including Jess Varnish and Darren Kenny.The 59-year-old Australian strongly denies all the charges and hopes the review, which is set to be concluded after this summers Rio Games, will see him cleared.In his first interview since stepping down, Sutton told Sky Sports News HQ: As I have done from day one, I totally refute the claims and I am saddened by the allegations but hopefully through the process that the Great Britain cycling team have set up well get to the truth of the matter.Among the allegations against Sutton are claims from track cyclist Varnish that she was told to go and have a baby after her contract was not renewed.When asked about that, Sutton said: One hundred per cent Ive never had that converssation with Jess and Ive had a lot of conversations with her in the past.ddddddddddddShes a good athlete and its sad the way this has ended and obviously you know she knows that her and I have not had that conversation and as far as Im concerned Id like to let the review take place, Im looking forward to that and the truth will come out and then hopefully Ill be totally exonerated by all these allegations.Sutton has also denied claims that he referred to Paralympic cyclists as wobblies and gimps, saying: No, and once again well let the review take its place and well sit down, obviously talk with the media afterwards, but Im looking to be totally vindicated in that review process and put all this behind me and move on.He added: To me [being exonerated] is massive. Because I know that the comments that have been made were false and it saddens me that it came to that, but lets just think of the good work that British Cycling have done to put this review process in place and everybody can have their say. ' ' '