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Does Your Girlfriend Wear Nicklas Backstrom’s Jersey?

by Travis Hughes

Attention men in the Washington D.C. metro: do you know which hockey jersey your girlfriend is wearing right now? According to a very modest Nicklas Backstrom, it’s probably a red or white number 19.

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↵Click to enlarge and see the full glory of Mr. Backstrom’s choice in getaway day attire. The shirt wasn’t custom-made for Nicklas, which you can probably tell considering the model on it is wearing the number 15, not 19. Instead, it’s made by a company called Gongshow, and a ton of NHL players apparently love their gear.

↵(photo H/T Yahoo!‘s Greg Wyshynski)

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