Longtime college head
coach Bob Gaudet (Dartmouth) has called it a career.
Gaudet, who has mentored his
alma mater since the 1997-98 campaign, has announced his retirement, effective at
the end of June, after serving as head coach at first Brown University and then
Dartmouth College since 1998-99. He departs with a 424-482-112 overall record amassed
over 32 NCAA seasons.
Gaudet coached in his
1,000th career contest in a 4-3 win at Princeton on Jan. 3. He coached
his final career game in the Big Green’s 5-4 overtime loss to Princeton on March
7 in the first round of the 2020 ECAC Hockey championship.
”It blows me away, the
doors that Dartmouth opened for me in my life, and to have the chance to come
back as a coach … it was a natural progression,” said Gaudet to New York Hockey
Journal in late 2018. “I owe so much to this school, and I try to repay it in
some small way as a coach.”
Gaudet, from Saugus,
Mass., became the all-time leader in hockey victories at his alma mater when
the Big Green defeated Cornell, 3-2, on Nov. 30, 2018. It was Gaudet’s
309th win at Dartmouth, which pushed him past school legend Eddie Jeremiah.
In 23 seasons in Hanover,
N.H., Gaudet posted a school-record 331 victories. The 2005-06 ECAC Hockey
Coach of the Year when he guided the Big Green to the conference regular-season
title, he also led Dartmouth to the 2006-07 Ivy League crown, and was personally inducted into the New Hampshire Legends of Hockey Hall of
Fame in 2018.
A 1981 graduate of Dartmouth,
Gaudet backstopped the Big Green for four seasons as a goaltender, including
NCAA semifinal appearances in both 1979 and 1980. After signing a contract with
the Winnipeg Jets and playing professionally with Fort Wayne (IHL), he began
his coaching career as an assistant at Dartmouth in 1983-84 before moving on to
Brown in 1988-89 as the head coach for eight years. He led the Bears to a 1993
NCAA tournament berth before returning to Dartmouth for good four years later.
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