5 goals and 3 assists in the Frozen Four.
2g 2a Tonight ...
4-1 Boston
Boston wins National Chamionship!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when asked if he was disappointed about not winning the Hobey Baker: "I don't care about the Hobey Baker, I won the National Championship"
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Mr. TBS (04-12-2008), The Toughster (04-13-2008), treydawg (04-12-2008)
gotta love the kid
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Mr. TBS (04-12-2008)
Amazing
8 points last two games
The Maxim Afinogenov Memorial Signature.
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You've got a conflict of interest bernier. Is it Bernier now or Gerbe?Originally Posted by bernier56
FWIW: most points in a frozen four final: 7 by John Mayasich, 1954
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The Toughster (04-13-2008), treydawg (04-13-2008)
That's hockey. You don't see Euros making comments like these.
I think he wants to make out with the kid!
Too bad there aren't any more games. Watching Gerbe and Orpik in the Frozen Four took away some of the sting of the season ending early this year. Oh well. Only a few weeks until the World Championships.
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light
calr (04-13-2008), GERBE!!!75PTS (04-13-2008), treydawg (04-13-2008)
great read ....
Gerbe leads BC to title
DENVER — Nathan Gerbe no longer has to be a gracious runner-up.
Twenty-four hours after missing out on the Hobey Baker award, the nation’s leading scorer led Boston College to the NCAA hockey championship that had eluded the talent-laden Eagles the last two seasons.
“Who needs the Hobey Baker? I’ve got the national championship,” exulted Gerbe, who scored twice and added two assists in BC’s 4-1 win over Notre Dame on Saturday night.
Gerbe had a hat trick in the semifinals against North Dakota and finished his commanding performance at the Frozen Four with five goals and three assists.
The 5-foot-5 fireplug from Oxford, Mich., who led the nation in scoring with 35 goals and 32 assists, shrugged it off Friday night when he lost out to Michigan’s Kevin Porter for hockey’s equivalent of the Heisman Trophy.
With the Eagles (24-11-8) finally hoisting the trophy after losing in the title game to Wisconsin in 2006 and Michigan State last year, Gerbe danced to Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration” on the ice after the horn sounded.
“For our team to share these memories, it’s going to be footprints in each other’s hearts forever, this trophy,” said Gerbe, a junior whose NHL draft rights are owned by the Buffalo Sabres. “I’d way rather hold this than the Hobey.”
Boston College also won titles in 1949 and 2001.
Despite the loss of top scorer Erik Condra to a knee injury last month, coach Jeff Jackson guided the Fighting Irish (27-16-4) to their first national title game just three years after taking over the moribund program that won only five games in 2004-05.
Boston College simply had too much experience and too much Gerbe for the Irish to pull off the upset.
The Fighting Irish thought they had cut BC’s lead to 3-2 five minutes into the final period, but the goal was disallowed after a long review. Kyle Lawson turned his skates to form a ‘V’ and the puck went off his left skate and then his right. He tried to get his stick on it but couldn’t as BC defenseman Tim Filangieri hit him as the puck slid into the net.
“If that goal stands, 3-2, then it’s a lot different type of game,” Eagles coach Jerry York acknowledged.
It proved a costly wave-off for Notre Dame. Just 35 seconds later, the Fighting Irish were down three goals instead of one when Gerbe sent a blind pass to Ben Smith, whose slap shot from the slot made it 4-1.
“It was a tough break for us,” Lawson said, “especially for them to come back and get that flukey fourth one that put us away.”
This game featured just the fourth scoreless first period in NCAA championship history, including last year’s, when Boston College lost to the Spartans, 3-1.
The Eagles, the first Eastern winner since their ’01 title and only the third in the last 13 seasons, seized control this time with a three-goal onslaught in the second period.
The game was shown on the scoreboard at Fenway Park during a rain delay of the Red Sox game against the New York Yankees. Those remaining in the stands cheered when Gerbe made it 1-0 when he took a pass from Brian Gibbons and one-timed it from the lower left circle past Jordan Pearce 2:23 into the second period.
Gerbe made it 2-0 with a power-play goal three minutes later. Smith dumped the puck off the backboards and Gerbe picked up the ricochet and sent it past the glove of Pearce while falling chest-first onto the ice, an effort that even left the Notre Dame bench in awe.
“I don’t know if there’s a kid in the country that works harder than he does, and he was finally rewarded tonight,” Lawson said. “He’s a catalyst for that team and he stepped up in the big moments. I think that second goal epitomized what he is: sprawling out, diving and putting it away.”
-buffalo news
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That quote about the Hobey Baker is exactly what I love hearing players say. Championship over Medals.
The Toughster (04-13-2008)
Gerbe is also expected to forgo his senior season by signing a professional contract this Spring.
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for the love of god dont fuck this up....
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It will get done. There's a rookie salary cap to prevent hold outs and with the center depth being what it is on this team Gerbe will probably get a shot with the Sabres some time next year. I'm not worried at all.
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