Career
He last played with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League during the 2008-2009 season. Undrafted, Gove played in two National Hockey League games with the Carolina Hurricanes over his professional career. He recorded an assist in his first National Hockey League game.
He did not have his name engraved on the cup because he did not play in half of the regular season games or make a finals appearance, but was included in the team picture and held the cup like the rest of the team
Prior to the 2015-2016 ECHL season, Gove was hired as an assistant coach to Clark Donatelli, head coach of the ECHL"s Wheeling Nailers. Gove was named the Nailers" interim head coach when Donatelli was promoted to the head coaching position of the Nailers" AHL affiliate the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on December 22, 2015.
On January 21, 2016, he was made the full-time head coach of the Nailers.