January 24, 2012
Backman Impressing on Sound Tigers' Penalty Kill
Photo by Ned Gerard/Connecticut Post
BRIDGEPORT --There's not a lot of glory in the penalty kill. Sometimes a penalty-kill forward only gets noticed if he's hanging his head going back to the bench after another team's power-play goal.
Bridgeport Sound Tigers coach Brent Thompson noticed Greenwich's Sean Backman on the penalty kill, and for the good reasons Saturday night.
"What I like about Sean right now, he's done a great job on the penalty kill," Thompson said. "He's kind of playing that role, an energy guy with good speed up and down the wing."
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