Not the Colorado Avalanche captain, but rather the 3-year-old gelding named for him, a horse co-owned by defenseman Erik Johnson. Wearing No. 5, Landeskog finished in ninth place of the eighth race ahead of the 151st Belmont Stakes. Tweet from @TheNYRA: Hog Creek Hustle hits the wire first with Corey Lanerie in the G1 Woody Stephens presented by @MoheganSun pic.twitter.com/vUSR6R1BB2 When "NHL on NBC" analyst Eddie Olczyk asked Johnson about the horse's name, he was straightforward about it. "Gabe was kind of laughing about why we would name a fast horse after him," Johnson joked. "But he's a good looking horse. Gabe is praised by a lot of the ladies for his good looks, so we thought we would name this one after Gabe and he's been doing awesome."
