Rob Concannon was Jared Bednar’s teammate for four seasons with the ECHL’s South Carolina Stingrays.
Followers of the Loveland-based Colorado Eagles, another ECHL team, are among those who know the league is one of limited salaries and grudges that often carry over from night to night in weekend series, but it also is a way to keep playing the game and in some cases refuse to give up the dream of reaching the NHL.
“Jared was loyal, he was an ultimate warrior, he was tough as nails,” Concannon, now the Stingrays’ team president, said Thursday. “He was a defensive defenseman, loved to play a physical style of game.