February 12, 2010

Get to Know Joe Gaudet

The following article featuring Dartmouth forward Joe Gaudet appeared February 12 on the Dartmouth Web site.

 

By Bruce Wood

To understand where Dartmouth senior Joe Gaudet is going it helps to know where he's been. And so let's travel back to the early 1990s when the strapping 6-foot-2 forward was hardly bigger than the pads his dad once donned between the pipes at Thompson Arena.

"I want to say he was 3- or 4-years-old and I brought him on a recruiting trip to Lake Placid," recalls Dartmouth coach Bob Gaudet, who just happens to be Joe's father. "It was a junior tournament or USA Hockey or something, and I've never seen a kid just sit in the stands and watch a game the way he did.

"Usually at that point you are playing with Ninja Turtles. But when other kids would be running around playing, he'd be focused on the game. He's always been like that."

Complete article can be accessed via the Dartmouth Web site by clicking here.