What was the release date for the hockey video game that featured the Swedish former NHL defenceman who played for the Detroit Red Wing for 20 years on its cover?
Backyard Hockey (Nintendo DS game) Backyard Hockey is a sports game released on October 2, 2007. This is the fourth iteration of the Backyard Hockey game from the Backyard Sports series. "Backyard Hockey" allows you to play ice hockey as professional NHL players as kids.The cover athlete for the game is Nicklas Lidström of the Detroit Red Wings. This was the first ice hockey game released for Nintendo DS in the United States.
Darryl Sittler Darryl Glen Sittler (born September 18, 1950) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League from 1970 until 1985 for the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Philadelphia Flyers and the Detroit Red Wings. He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989, the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Canadian Walk of Fame in 2016. On January 27, 2017, in a ceremony during the All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, Sittler was part of the second group of players to be named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.