Providence Bruins

The Sound Tigers would fall behind again with 26 seconds left in the middle period when the Whale scored a power play goal with Nino Niederreiter on the bench serving the teams ‘too many men on the ice’ penalty. John Persson would tie the game in the final period scoring his fifteenth of the season on Bridgeport’s second and final power play opportunity of the night, setting the stage for Sean Backman’s late game heroics.

Backman’s game has improved noticeably over the last month or so. In the past his time was spent between the hashmarks waiting for an outlet pass and avoiding the dirty areas of the ice, but no longer.

There are traditions within the Sound Tigers fraternity as there are all such of organizations. Some involve rookie chore or duties, i.e. preforming the chicken dance at the annual Booster Club (BSTBC) winter dinner, other snare the pranks and hazing’s you find on any college campus.

One tradition was the annual Super Bowl Sunday trip to the casino. I have no idea which players won or lost on the 2/7/10 trip for Super Bowl XLIV but one player who turned out to be a big winner that day did not make the trip.