MONTREAL – Nearly a decade after lacing up his skates at the Frozen Tundra Hockey Classic, Tom Gilbert says the unique aspects of the experience remain etched in his memory to this very day.
Back then, a 23-year-old Gilbert was wrapping up his four-year collegiate career at the University of Wisconsin, plying his trade on the Badgers blue line while completing a degree in business and consumer affairs. With the regular season winding down, Mike Eaves’ squad headed two-and-a-half hours north of Madison to historic Lambeau Field in Green Bay to battle the Ohio State Buckeyes in front of nearly 41,000 fans on February 11, 2006.