Former Bowling Green State University hockey player Rob Blake is headed for the NHL Hall of Fame.
Blake was selected Monday to be inducted in November.
The Hall of Fame class also includes centers Mike Modano and Peter Forsberg, former
Detroit Red Wings goalie Dominik Hasek, coach Pat Burns and referee Bill McCreary.
“The Bowling Green Hockey program is very proud of Rob for this
fantastic honor. His accomplishments in the NHL make this decision very
fitting,” current Falcon hockey coach Chris Bergeron stated in a news release.
At BGSU from 1987-90, the Simcoe, Ontario native recorded 104 points (39
goals, 65 assists), including 18 power play goals, a shorthanded goal
and three game-winners in 131 games. His 368 penalty minutes are tied
for third-most in school history.
Blake earned second team All-CCHA honors in 1988-89, helping the Falcons
into the CCHA Championships for the eighth-consecutive season. Tied 2-2
at Michigan, Blake’s goal at 2:54 of the third overtime ended the fourth-longest game in school history

and handed the Falcons the third and deciding game of the series.
Blake’s final season at BG was even bigger, highlighted by a
record-setting weekend at Miami in late November, 1989. His hat trick in
the second game of the series tied a school record for goals in a game
by a defenseman, and his four goals and eight points on the weekend also
tied or set school marks.
Blake’s 23 goals in the 1989-90 season remains the record for Falcon
defensemen. The honors poured in for Blake following that season, as he
was named the CCHA’s Best Offensive Defenseman, earned first-team
all-league honors and was named to the CCHA All-Tournament team. He also
added the BGSU Team MVP award to that list. The top honor that season
came when Blake was named a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award, college
hockey’s top prize, along with teammate Nelson Emerson.
Drafted in the fourth round of the 1988 NHL Draft by Los Angeles, Blake
played 11 seasons with the Kings, landing a spot on the All-Rookie team
in 1990-91, and making his first All-Star Game appearance in 1994. He
won the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s top defenseman in 1998, and took
hockey’s ultimate prize in 2001, winning the Stanley Cup for Colorado
alongside another former Falcon, Greg DeVries.
In 1998, Blake was selected to play for Canada in the Winter Olympics.
While the Canadians failed to earn a medal in the Games, Blake was named
Best Defenseman.
Four years later, he became the fifth Falcon icer to win a medal at the
Olympics, and the third to win gold, as Team Canada took gold at the
2002 Salt Lake City Games. Ken Morrow and Mark Wells are the only other
BG hockey alumni to win gold, as members of Team USA’s 1980 “Miracle on
Ice” squad. In December 2005, Blake was named to his third Olympic team,
the most of any Falcon.
Blake was elected to the Bowling Green State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1996, his first year of
eligibility.