Photo: @pt_andreas
Sunday afternoon, injured first-line center Nicklas Backstrom traveled to FedEx Field like Tom Wilson and Michael Latta did last week, to watch the Washington Redskins take on the St. Louis Rams. After a surprisingly drama-free week out of Ashburn, the Redskins won their first game of the season, 24-10, and are now 1-1.
Backstrom went to the game with his daughter Haley, his girlfriend Liza Berg, and his new personal trainer, Andreas Öhgren, visiting from Sweden.
Öhgren is helping Backstrom train at Kettler while recovering from hip surgery. In a recent interview with arbetarbladet.se, Backstrom gushed about Öhgren’s work with him.
“It is said that he is the best in Sweden and I will endorse that,” Backstrom said as translated by Matilda Wrigsjö. “He is very good at knowing how the body works, and has many new ideas and hockey-like exercises. Many rotation exercises and so on, he does good things, especially for guys like me who have been injured.”
“There has been a lot of focus on enhancing flexibility in the hip again,” continued Backstrom. “At first I could not run or anything, that’s why I have wanted to wait to get back on the ice until very recently.”
Here are a few more photos from Öhgren’s Instagram.
CSN Washington also caught up with Backstrom at FedEx Field. He told the website that if he played football he would be a quarterback.
Of course he would.
Photo: CSN Washington
