Former Salmon Arm SilverBack Josh Manson, now with the NCAA’s Northeastern University Huskies, has been signed with the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks. Manson has also been named the NCAA’s (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Hockey East Best Defensive Defenceman. In other SilverBacks news, former players Mike Puddifant and Sam Mitchell, now teammates on the SAIT (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) Trojans men’s hockey team, competed for the ACAC (Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference) championship, defeating the NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology) Ooks in two games in a best out-of-three series for the championship.

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