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Ralph Backstrom

New England Whalers / WHA - 76/77
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  • Position
    C
  • Height
    5'10" / 178 cm
  • Weight
    165 lbs / 75 kg
  • Shoots
    L
  • Contract
    -
  • Highlights
    1-time NHL Rookie of the Year (Calder Trophy) 1
    6-time NHL Stanley Cup Champion 6

Cousins: Daren Puppa & Derek Puppa

Ralph Backstrom won 6 Stanley Cups with the Canadiens from 1959-69. He scored 40 points as a rookie in 1959 and won the Calder Trophy. He reached the 40-point mark 10 times and set career highs in 1962 with 27 goals and 65 points. Backstrom retired from the NHL in 1973 with 278 goals and 361 assists.

Backstrom, 83, died on February 7, 2021, in Windsor, Colo.

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IFRAME (simple)

Example use
- Blogs
- Articles
- Team websites

Implementation
Insert the code at the location where you wish the player statistics to show.

Regular season + playoffs
Preview

HTML Code

<iframe src="https://www.eliteprospects.com/iframe_player_stats.php?player=31931" width="100%" height="580" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Only Regular season

If Regular season + playoffs is too wide.

Preview

HTML Code

<iframe src="https://www.eliteprospects.com/iframe_player_stats_small.php?player=31931" width="100%" height="580" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>
RSS (advanced)

Example use
- Team websites

Implementation
Depending on the technical environment on your server, your programming language etc, you can read/include the statistics in many different ways. Below is an example on how you can include the statistics using PHP.

Note that the first box holds the code for an RSS feed with EP layout, while the second box is unformatted and possible to style after your own preferences using CSS.

EP layout
RSS-feed
https://www.eliteprospects.com/rss_player_stats.php?player=31931
<?php
$rss = new SimpleXMLElement('https://www.eliteprospects.com/rss_player_stats.php?player=31931', null, true);
foreach($rss->xpath('channel/item') as $item) {
    echo utf8_decode($item->description);
}
?>
No layout
RSS-feed
https://www.eliteprospects.com/rss_player_stats2.php?player=31931
<?php
$rss = new SimpleXMLElement('https://www.eliteprospects.com/rss_player_stats2.php?player=31931', null, true);
foreach($rss->xpath('channel/item') as $item) {
    echo utf8_decode($item->description);
}
?>

To customize the layout of "no layout" option, specify the following following CSS classes on your site:

CSS class to create      HTML tag affected
p_stats <p>
a_stats <a href>
table_stats <table>
tdh_stats <th> (heading)
tr_stats_odd <tr> (odd row)
tr_stats_even <tr> (even row)
td_stats_odd <td> (odd row)
td_stats_even <td> (even row)
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