Blake Geoffrion

Blake Geoffrion (born February 3, 1988 in Plantation, Florida) is an American ice hockey player of Quebecois descent. Geoffrion was selected 56th overall in the second round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft by the Nashville Predators. He is currently a left wing for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and played for Team USA at the 2007 and 2008 World Junior Hockey Championships.

If Geoffrion were to play in the NHL, he would become the fourth generation of his family to play in the league, an extremely rare feat across not just hockey, but all North American team sports. His great-grandfather Howie Morenz was a legend of the sport and one of the first members of the Hockey Hall of Fame as a member of the Montreal Canadiens. Geoffrion's grandfather, was also a Hall of Fame player as a Canadien, and a noted ambassador for hockey in the South as the one-time coach of the Atlanta Flames. Blake's father, Dan Geoffrion, while not having the success of Howie or Bernie, did play three seasons in the NHL with the Canadiens and the Winnipeg Jets.

Geoffrion grew up in the Nashville, Tennessee area and started playing competitive hockey in the Nashville youth hockey system. As such, he is the first Nashville-trained player drafted not just by the Predators, but by any NHL team.

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