Babcock wins gold with McGill tie

Montreal - McGill - Mike Babcock (BE'86) coached the Canadian Olympic men's hockey team to a heart-stopping gold-medal victory Sunday night, sporting his "lucky" McGill tie, which now enjoys a 6-2 record when Babcock has it on behind the bench, whether at the Olympics or in the NHL, where he coaches the Detroit Red Wings. (See the Facebook page for Mike Babcock's McGill Tie . Of course, the tie didn't win, the Canadian players did. All Canada was watching, barely breathing, as the Canadian men scored the country's record-breaking 14th gold medal at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games Sunday, notching a 3-2 overtime win against a powerful American squad that never quit. With an almost lyrical inevitability, Sidney Crosby sank the overtime goal that clinched Canada's victory in a nail-biting game that could have gone either way. A blue McGill tie had been couriered to Babcock several days before the final game but he had already packed his own red McGill tie and chose to wear his trusty old one for what may go down as the highest rated spectacle in Canadian television history. Babcock's success caps an amazing record of achievement for McGillians at the Vancouver Games.