Published: April 2008
A crowd of some 2,000 came to Conte Forum on the evening of April 14 for a rally celebrating the Boston College men’s hockey team, which won the NCAA championship on April 12 with a 4-1 win over Notre Dame. Happy fans formed a line that wound halfway around the concourse to get autographs from the players, including Nathan Gerbe ’09 (above), who scored two goals and had two assists in the Notre Dame game, and was the nation’s leading scorer for the season with 35 goals and 32 assists. President William P. Leahy, SJ, Gene DeFilippo, director of athletics, and Coach Jerry York spoke at the ceremony, which ended on a climactic note when, after the Eagles’ previous NCAA trophies from 1949 and 2001 were brought out, Baldwin entered the rink, riding a Zamboni, bearing the 2008 prize.