Height: 12" Round
Weight: 18 oz.
Color: Rusty
Last Seen: At the Border
Reward: $19.57 to be paid by LetsGoDU if original Gold Pan Trophy is found.
(Left) The DU Booster Club was able to obtain this photo of Tina Berkhoel on vacation in South Dakota last summer
(Left) The DU Booster Club was able to obtain this photo of Tina Berkhoel on vacation in South Dakota last summer.
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For years the DU-CC rivalry was symbolized by a trophy that was awarded between the two bitter rivals. It was always kind of hard to figure out who really had the trophy due to a few particular quirks in the Deed of Gift. If the series was split during the regular season, the current holder of the trophy retained possession. So hypothetically, it was possible to split the regular season series, get swept in the WCHA playoffs and the lose the National Championship game and still retain the trophy.
Of course a few Denver wags liked to point out that if it wasn't for the Gold Pan, the CC Trophy Case would only contain a few quartz rocks collected by Scott Owens during his annual summer vacation in the Rocky Mountains.
Last last season it was reported on AM 950 "The Fan" with Mark Mosier and Lodo Chad interviewing Coach Gwozdecky, that a former player from the 2004 team told him that the Gold Pan, "might be in the possession of a player's mother from last year's team."
Speculation raged online about who had the Gold Pan. Eventually Coach Gwozdecky revealed that the Gold Pan "might" be in Tina Berkhol's possession. That created a whole new controversy, because who wants to scrap with the fiesty mother of a former All-American Hockey Player?
For years the DU-CC rivalry was symbolized by a trophy that was awarded between the two bitter rivals. It was always kind of hard to figure out who really had the trophy due to a few particular quirks in the Deed of Gift. If the series was split during the regular season, the current holder of the trophy retained possession. So hypothetically, it was possible to split the regular season series, get swept in the WCHA playoffs and the lose the National Championship game and still retain the trophy.
Of course a few Denver wags liked to point out that if it wasn't for the Gold Pan, the CC Trophy Case would only contain a few quartz rocks collected by Scott Owens during his annual summer vacation in the Rocky Mountains.
Last last season it was reported on AM 950 "The Fan" with Mark Mosier and Lodo Chad interviewing Coach Gwozdecky, that a former player from the 2004 team told him that the Gold Pan, "might be in the possession of a player's mother from last year's team."
Speculation raged online about who had the Gold Pan. Eventually Coach Gwozdecky revealed that the Gold Pan "might" be in Tina Berkhol's possession. That created a whole new controversy, because who wants to scrap with the fiesty mother of a former All-American Hockey Player?
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Flash Forward a couple of years from now: CC somehow wins the season series with DU. Three CC Tigers who live in Minnesota after a few beers get their courage up & decide to go get "their" Gold Pan. As they knock on the door of the Berkhoel Family abode they are greeted by Tina Berkhoel wearing a #29 Atlanta Thrashers jersey.
Tina: "What can I do for you boys, I'm afraid Adam is in Atlanta."
CC Tiger #1: "Well actually Ma'am we're not here to see Adam."
Tina: "Well come inside boys I just baked a fresh Gopher Pie and its cooling on the windowsill."
CC Tiger #2: "Thats OK ma'am actually were from Colorado College."
Tina (suddenly suspicious & less friendly): Oh Really...
CC Tiger #1: Yes, well you see ma'am were here about the Gold Pan...
Tina: "I don't know anything about a Gold Pan..."
Tina: "I don't know anything about a Gold Pan..."
CC Tiger #1: "Well you see ma'am we understand that Adam might have acidentally taken it when he graduated and we were thinking that since its like a perpetual trophy, we maybe could like get it back."
Tina: "Now listen here boys Adam has so many trophies (NCAA Regionals MVP, Frozen Four MVP, USA player of the year, etc...) it would take you boys weeks to find it even if we had it, which we don't."
CC Tiger #3 (helpfully): "Thats OK ma'am, were from CC. We haven't seen many throphies. We'd be honored to sort through them and see if we could find the Gold Pan."
Tina (skeptically): "OK boys, but I want you out of here by 5 PM."
CC Tigers #1, #2 & #3: Yes Ma'am...
Well, the CC boys never did find that Gold Pan, although they had a great time seeing all of the championship trophies and photographs. They didn't even stick around for Tina Berkhoel's world famous Gopher Pie. And thats too bad, because if they had they might have seen the faint inscription in the bottom of the Pie Pan...DU vs. CC 19...
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