Former Blue Jackets legend retires and joins Western Conference team's coaching staff
Nathan Gerbe was last seen in the Columbus Blue Jackets organization, who at the time had worked his way up from the Cleveland Monsters, to join the club for 41 total games in 3 seasons.
Gerbe would finish his career in Cleveland, tallying 13 games in the AHL after Columbus' forward core was replenished with the scrappy forward sent back down to the Monsters.
Gerbe will be joining the Nashville Predators as the team's forward development coach.
While small in stature, Gerbe never backed down from a fight and spared no expense when it came to laying out Travis Sanheim of the Philadelphia Flyers once.
Gerbe was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in 2005 from the US National Talent Development program and would split his time in the NHL and AHL between the Buffalo Sabres, Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Cleveland Monsters organizations.
"I'm proud to announce the latest additions to our ever-growing hockey operations staff prior to the start of this season's training camp," Preds general manager David Poile said in a release. "Alongside our homegrown management staff of assistant general managers Jeff Kealty, Scott Nichol and Brian Poile, these individuals all bring different, valuable and innovative skillsets to a group that is dedicated each day to bringing a Stanley Cup to Nashville. We are excited to see how they complement each other and work on and off the ice to make our entire organization better."
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| Colorado Avalanche | 81 | 55.1 % |
| Minnesota Wild | 27 | 18.4 % |
| St. Louis Blues | 21 | 14.3 % |
| Other | 18 | 12.2 % |
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