If someone was to create a Mount Rushmore of the New Jersey Titans, Brandon Perrone certainly would be one of the figures carved in stone.
Perrone, a 21-year-old goaltender in his freshman season at the University of Alaska Anchorage, spent the past three campaigns with the Titans in the North American Hockey League, where he left his mark not only on the ice with his prominent presence between the pipes, but also away from the rink with his involvement in the team’s numerous community service initiatives, efforts that led to him winning the 2018-19 NAHL Community Service Award.
“I told Brandon in the exit meeting last season that it was going to be hard to replace him as a goaltender, but it was going to be even more difficult to replace what he meant to our team,” Titans head coach and general manager Craig Doremus said.
“He became the face of the franchise in our home building, with the fans we had here, and also with the culture he helped develop in the dressing room, in the community and in the stands. That was really realized once we started going to visiting buildings this year, when fans of other teams came up to us and asked how he was doing, said how nice of a man he was, how much he meant to them, and how much they enjoyed watching him play and interacting with him. He went through peaks and valleys here, but he left an imprint here as a goalie and a young man.”