Christian Backman
Christian Backman
Christian Rune Bäckmanis a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman, who last played for Frölunda HC of the Swedish Hockey League...
chemistry good harder losing players stay
They did a good job. That's important to keep the players together. I think without the right chemistry on the team, you can't have success. It's always harder when you're losing to stay together, but I think we just got better and better.
standing tough
It's tough . . . he was standing up for me. It's too bad. We need him.
gold hard hold medal skated stuff threw
I don't even know what I was thinking. I just threw all my stuff up and skated around on the ice. When I got the gold medal around my neck, it was hard to hold back your tears.
grew guys older playing suddenly team watching
There were a lot of older guys on our team and I grew up watching them. Suddenly I was there playing with them as one of 20 guys on the team, it was crazy.
deserved games knew last played
We kind of knew this was coming. The last two games we played really well and we deserved better.