Gerbe's 2 Goals, Assist Send Eagles to 3rd Straight Frozen Four

The Eagles are shipping up to Denver thanks to a Joe Whitney overtime game winner in the Northeast regional championship against University of Miami (Ohio). Whitney's 10th goal of the year came at 12:12 of the first overtime and gave BC a 4-3 win, capping a furious comeback and sending Eagle fans into frozen four euphoria once again. The trip will be their 3rd straight, and 8th in the past 11 years.

The Eagles had trailed 2-0 with under 4 minutes to play in the 2nd period before a 3 goal outburst gave them the lead in just 1:58 - including a game tying marker by Hobey Baker finalist Nathan Gerbe. However, a talented Redhawks team would not go away quietly and sent the game into overtime on a third period tally from captain, Ryan Jones.



A day earlier, The Eagles defeated Minnesota in the regional Semifinal by a score of 5-2, improving Jerry York's NCAA record to 8-0 in first round games. The win was also #800 for Coach York. Congrats!

BC's "Gerbe for Hobey" Highlight Reel

this is sick

Gerbe Named HE player of the week

CCM/RBK PLAYER OF THE WEEK
NATHAN GERBE - BOSTON COLLEGE
JUNIOR FORWARD; OXFORD, MICH.

Gerbe registered five points (1g,4a) in tournament victories over New Hampshire and Vermont and captured tournament MVP honors after tallying nine points in the tournament (4g,5a).


HE Press Release

Gerbe Named Tournament MVP as Eagles Win 8th HE Championship

The Cinderella story continued for Boston College freshman goaltender John Muse (East Falmouth, Mass.) Saturday night, as he stopped all 29 shots he faced en route to leading the Eagles to their second consecutive Hockey East tournament championship and third in four seasons, 4-0 over the University of Vermont

Video Highlights

HE Online Recap

3 Assists Propel Gerbe Lead Eagles into HE championship

Friday March 21: Nate Gerbe provided 3 assists, and was all over the ice, as the BC eagles defeated the UNH wildcats 5-4 in triple overtime to advance to the Hockey East Championship game.

Early in the first, Gerbe would undress Kevin Kapstad and turn a 1 on 2 into a breakaway, only to be stoned by HE POTY, Kevin Regan; making matters worse, UNH would capitalize moments later on a power play goal to go up 1-0. The Wildcats would go on to build a 4-1 lead over halfway through the game before Gerbe went to work. The eagles knotted the game on goals by Joe Whitney, Brian Gibbons, and Dan Bertram before Benn Ferriero would win it in triple overtime.

Box Score

Gerbe Named Finalist for Hobey Baker

Success! Nathan Gerbe has been named one of the 10 finalists for the 2008 Hobey Baker Award


Nathan Gerbe
Boston College, Junior, Forward, Oxford, Michigan

This 5’5” dynamo packs a powerful punch and is entering the Hockey East playoff tournament as the nation’s second leading scorer with 52 points. His 27 goals rank tied for third in the country including bagging three in last weekend’s playoffs. Gerbe was named First Team Hockey East and has helped the Eagles to the past two Frozen Fours.
• Has played in two straight NCAA championship games – Buffalo draft pick
• Has 27 goals, 25 assists for 52 points in 37 games – Communications major
• Has 9 PPG, 3 shorthanded, 4 winning goals – active in community service

BC jumps on Gerbe Bandwagon

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. BC has finally launched its Gerbe for Hobey Campaign

Gerbe Nets 3 Goals as BC Sweeps Providence

After a long hiatus, the Gerbe for Hobey bandwagon is running again after Gerbe scores 3 goals against Providence College in a 2 game sweep of the Hockey East quarter final series. The scoring surge, now at 5 goals in 5 games, has put Nate back to 2nd in the nation in points.

Gerbe's one tally on Saturday night came via the rare penalty shot. Our friend Nate dazzled the crowd with a ridiculous spin-o-rama to put the Eagles up 4-0; they would go on to win 5-1.

The Eagles win the series, convincingly, with a pair of 5-1 wins and await a TBD opponent for Friday night's semifinal matchup.





A second angle of Gerbe's goal, for those who love the home video version:

Getting to Know Gerbe, Part II

Inside College Hockey (#1 college hockey resource on the web!) did another profile on Nate, entitled the Gerbe '08: the hobey dilemma.

lots of great insights from Nate, his teammates, opposing players, and even League Commissioner, Joe Bertagna:

"Believe me, I believe whether it's players or coaches I've always been a stickler for people doing what's expected of them. I think it would be a shame if someone took it that far [to punish Gerbe in the Hobey Baker voting]. I really don't believe there's a body of evidence to make that a factor in the voting, just a couple incidents that happened. It seems like a long time ago to me, and he paid the price for it. To me, he's been a great player since, and I haven't had an incident, or anything anybody has asked me to look at or anything."

Gerbe named HE co-player of the week

Nathan Gerbe recorded his 5th player of the week honors for his performance in the beanpot tournament


CCM/RBK PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
NATHAN GERBE - BOSTON COLLEGE
JUNIOR FORWARD; OXFORD, MICH.

Gerbe had six points on the week (3g,3a) in two wins, including the overtime game-winner vs. BU last Monday in opening round of the Beanpot and a four-point effort on Friday at UMass.



Press Release

Where's Your Beanpot?

Freshman Nick Petrecki pots home a pair of goals, including the game winner, in an OT thriller against Harvard.




Because you can't spell Beanpot Champions without BC

DOMIN - NATE: Gerbe stays atop Hobey Big Board

Heading into this weekend's games, our man Nate remained atop the Inside College Hockey - Hobey Baker Big Board.

Despite Kevin Porter's fine efforts against Miami, look for Nate to continue his string at #1 after his effort against Umass

INCH Big Board


In other news, GerbeforHobey.com gets a plug on the latest (1/28)INCH podcast! Tune in to the hour (and change) long segment and hear the shout out at the 1:17 mark. You can find the podcasts through itunes

Gerbe Notches 4 points in win over Umass

Nathan Gerbe's torrid point streak continued, as he added 4 more points to his nation leading total on Friday night, with a goal and 3 assists, against Umass Amherst.

USCHO Game Recap


BC's next game is Monday night against Harvard in the Beanpot Championship

Gerbe Overtime Game Winner Sends BU Into Beanpot Consolation

In what is becoming a rather routine event this season, Nathan Gerbe again propelled BC past BU on Monday night, this time in the first round of the 56th annual Beanpot. Gerbe would net both the game tying and game winning goals for the Eagles, who remain undefeated against BU on the season (3-0-1); and return to the championship game for the 5th time in six years.

Gerbe's latest "hobey moment" came at 7:15 of the first overtime when he took a brilliant no look pass from freshman Brian Gibbons and deposited it behind BU goaltender, Brett Bennett, for his 21st goal of the year. This marked the first time since 1981 that the Eagles defeated the Terriers in a Beanpot Semifinal.

Gerbe's epic goal set off a euphoric celebration (seen below).

"I've always wanted to do that since I was a little kid - a headfirst slide," said Gerbe, "Watching on TV, you always see everyone in the playoffs do that with OT goals. I thought it would be fun. It was the first dive in my career."



After falling behind 1-0 and 3-2, BC rallied for overtime early in the third period on a Gerbe powerplay goal at the 1:02 mark, with Colin Wilson in the box, serving a delay of game penalty for Brett Bennett.

BC continued to take it to the Terriers; and Andrew Orpik scored the apparent game winner at 5:19 of the third, only to see the goal waved off after video review confirmed that Brian Gibbons was in the crease. Gibbons (pictured below) was checked hard by Dan McGoff into netminder Brett Bennet, but referees ruled that Gibbons had voluntarily skated into the crease prior to making contact with the BU defenseman.

The Eagles weathered the storm of the annual goal waived off in the Beanpot, and forced overtime for the second year in a row. This time Gerbe made sure the result was different.

The Eagles have now won seven of their last 10 against BU.

Gerbe Named Hockey East Player of the Month of January

CCM / RBK Hockey Player of the Month
Nathan Gerbe – Boston College
Junior Forward; Oxford, Mich.

Gerbe registered a team-high nine points (4g,5a) and plus minus rating of +4 in seven games in January, leading the Eagles to a 4-1-2 January record. He tallied at least one point in five of seven games, including three multiple-point performances. Earned Hockey East Player of the Week honors on Jan. 14 after two stellar efforts against Vermont; recorded three points (1g,2a) and a +4 rating in the team’s 4-1 win over Vermont on Jan. 9, then scored two points (1g,1a) in a 5-2 win over the Catamounts Jan. 11. Netted one power-play goal and two game-winning goals; scored the decisive goal in the team’s 5-2 win over Vermont on Jan. 11 and tallied the game-winning score in the team’s 4-2 win at Maine on Jan. 26.

HE Online: Press Relase

Gerbe Euphoria Sweeping the Nation

The Hockey News: Hot List is a weekly roundup of minor league, junior, college and high school players we’re excited to one day see in the NHL, appears every Tuesday, only on thehockeynews.com.

It should be no surpise to us who is #1:

1. Nathan Gerbe, C – Boston College Eagles (Hockey East): Gerbe has been absolutely tearing it up as of late, leading the conference in scoring with 37 points in 23 games. He led Hockey East in goals last year and is likely to do it again. Drafted 142nd overall by Buffalo in 2005


other NCAA'ers on the list include

6. Jeff Zatkoff, G, Miami (OH)
7. Billy Sauer, G, Michigan
10. TJ Oshie, F, North Dakota

BC 4, Maine 2

1/26/2008 - Orono, ME: Nathan Gerbe broke a mini scoring slump by netting the game winning goal against the University of Maine Black Bears on Saturday night, leading the Eagles to a tough 4-2 victory at the Alfond Arena.

Senior Matt Greene would ice the game with an ENG at the 19:44 mark.

Gerbe 4 Hobey Generating Buzz!

The first official press for the Gerbe Baker campaign appears on CSTV's rink rat blog, written by Elliot Olshanksy. He writes:

"It looks like I picked the right week to write a column about BC's Nathan Gerbe. We're a week removed from the launch of a Gerbe For Hobey blog, a day removed from Gerbe cracking the top three in our Hobey Watch and taking the lead on Inside College Hockey's Hobey Tracker, and a few hours removed from a great hue and cry from our good friend Chris Dilks over at Western College Hockey (and the UNH Men's Hockey Blog had its say as well)".

Olshanksy's aforementioned article is a worthy read. Titled "Learning Lessons Along The Way", it addresses the controversial topic that is sure to be played out over and over again until the award winner is announced - Nate's one game suspension earlier in the season imposed by league tyrant, Comissioner Joe Bertagna, after a game against Merrimack where Nate wasnt even whistled for a penalty.

The article includes some honest quotes from Nate and Coach Jerry York. It also poses the question: does this affect Nate's chances for the hobey baker:

"You have to look at what the suspension is for," said one former media voter. "If it's an on-ice suspension, I don't think it should weigh as much as somebody getting suspended for something off the ice. I think you have a player like Gerbe, who gets suspended for an on-ice incident, I don't think that should factor in. It's part of the game, and he learned his lesson.

I guess that means we can rule out a certain someone, who clearly won't be winning.

Weekly Hobey Baker watch

Week 14

Kevin Porter remains the CSTV unanimous choice for the Hobey Baker award, Gerbe holds down the fort in second.

However, our favorite site, Inside College Hockey continues to list Gerbe atop the Hobey Baker big board; but acknowledges that Porter is closing the gap.

It really seems to be a 2 person race at this point. Ryan Jones would be a good choice for #3; but the other front runners - Peter Mannino, Ryan Lasch, and Chad Rau are slipping off the pace

INCH Hobey Baker Watch

Gerbe stays atop the Inside College Hockey.com Hobey Baker Big Board for the second week in a row.

THE BIG BOARD

Hobey Baker Watch