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# Bedford boys hockey benefits from Gagne's opportunities
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- Published: 2017-01-02T13:42:32.000Z
- Updated: 2017-01-02T13:42:32.000Z
- Description: Griffin Gagne has always found himself at the right place at the right time throughout his career with the Bedford High School boys hockey. What the senior captain has done in those situations over the last two seasons is what has elevated to his game and made Gagne one of the top players in the sta
- Author: Joe Marchilena
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Griffin Gagne has always found himself at the right place at the right time throughout his career with the Bedford High School boys hockey.

What the senior captain has done in those situations over the last two seasons is what has elevated to his game and made Gagne one of the top players in the state.

As a young player, Gagne was someone who Bedford coach Marty Myers could see knew how to put himself in position to be successful on the ice. It was just a matter of being able to capitalize on those situations.

"He was always a kid with opportunities," Myers said. "He would come with the puck and have an opportunity to shoot and to score, but then not score. He had that knack to create for himself. Now he's finishing. He's getting the breakaways and finishing. Two years ago, he wasn't doing that."

That is what Gagne did on Dec. 21 against Bishop Guertin, when he had two breakaway shorthanded goals that helped the Bulldogs to a 3-3 tie.

And against Manchester Memorial in last week's Manchester Monarchs Christmas Hockey Classic, after the Crusaders had controlled possession for most of the first shift, Gagne swung momentum on his team's first opportunity in the game.

"Say your team isn't playing well at the start and you get a good goal, it picks them up and swings the momentum," Gagne said. "That's big with a young team, like we have.

"Experience-wise, I've played in a lot of these games, and I think that helps. Helping younger kids through the process has helped. I think experience is the biggest thing. When you're in a tournament like this for three years, it helps, and all those big games."

Those big games now include back-to-back titles in the Manchester tournament, plus two straight Division I semifinal appearances and a division championship last year.

But while Gagne's skill on the ice will go a long way toward determining whether or not Bedford can repeat this season, it's what he does off it with his teammates that might be more important for the program's future.

"Skill is one thing, that's a big piece of the game, but it's their instinct, their ability to compete and want to compete," Myers said. "That's what Griffin brings to this team. He has a great skill set and he's liked by all his peers, but the biggest thing he brings to the team is his willingness to compete."

That competitive nature started a long time ago, according to Gagne, in the things he would do at home with his brother, Alex.

"I've always been pretty competitive with everything that I do," he said. "Every hockey game, I just wanted to win. I'm never satisfied, I want to get better at everything."

Myers sees that it's not just in games that that need to compete comes out.

"He does anything and everything," Myers said. "When we do things in practice where we try to make competitive games, and I don't care what it is, he always tries to win. That's what he brings to our team that I hope the underclassmen look at. If you watch him on the ice, he's just relentless."

Gagne is hoping that relentlessness, and the drive of a new group of varsity players, will get the Bulldogs back to the top of the division. Bedford's title last year was it's first in Division I, and the program's fourth overall.

"We definitely know it's in the past," he said. "That was the old team and we're a brand new team. We've got to pave our own way. We're hungrier than ever. We want to get back there because who doesn't love playing in JFK, who doesn't love playing (at SNHU Arena) in front of a lot of people."