Penn State

[Dangle]

Re: Penn State

It starts with a great facility for sure but the coach Gadowski has been around for a long time built up Princeton and Alaska both over his years there. His assistance coaches need a lot of credit as well for recruiting as well as they have but it is early so I would have to think that they will fall a little but would like to see them challenge for a spot in the tournament. It is a very fun place to watch college hockey and would rate up there with any of the top college rinks and student section.

[lakecharles]

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Penn State now #1 in the Pairwise.

[SteveP]

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#1 in today's USCHO poll and not one post here in nearly a month?

[sshablak]

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Amazing, in five years, congrats to Happy Valley !

[icehawk]

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Depending on what you believe Penn State's strength-of-schedule is from 22 (USCHO-RPI) to 35 (USCHO-KRACH) to 48 (Massey).

[nappyvalley]

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#1 in today's USCHO poll and not one post here in nearly a month?

I've been wanting to post but I had forgotten my password and was too lazy to recover it until now lol. Very excited about this team. Saturday's game was a thriller as we essentially knew our first ever #1 ranking was on the line and MSU gave us everything they had for 2.5 periods. Was awesome when we finally broke the game open. Very excited about this team and excited to go see them in Philly in a couple weeks.

Huge series against Ohio State coming up first, though. I'm sure we'll need both of those games to maintain our spot.

[Dangle]

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Looks like Penn State is going to have to develop some grit real soon their small forwards were cruising early in the year but look more like marshmallows now down the stretch. They look like an easy team to coach against over the last 3 weeks and not sure why the juggling of all the lines all of a sudden but they better get it together real soon or they will fall right out of the rankings.

[spwood]

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Man, the Nittany Lions better stop this free fall soon... They have almost played their way out of the NCAA tournament. Is Jones hitting a wall between the pipes? I know the level of competition has increased the last couple of weeks, too. I know they get another shot at Minnesota in a few weeks. C'mon boys, let's right the ship!

[Dangle]

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Good to see the boys have a good game last night hopefully they can keep it going, the games will get tougher from here on in.

[HockeyTherapy]

why the juggling of all the lines all of a sudden

Mostly due to either sitting out players, sickness or injury. For instance, they'll have to adjust for Kerr being out this weekend so moving the D lines around a little will be necessary.

As for getting tougher, definitely the next two weeks. After that we'll see. It should be a good pair of games this weekend and hopefully much different than playing in Minn. since they're coming off a great pair of road wins. But Wisco will be on the hunt to redeem themselves coming into the Peg.

[Slap Shot]

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Let's get it on!!

[Tipsy McStagger]

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Penn State is really Omaha-ing it up these past few weeks. It's gonna be funny when they miss the tournament.

[Slap Shot]

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Penn State is really Omaha-ing it up these past few weeks. It's gonna be funny when they miss the tournament.

Did UNO recently sweep at UW also?

Although it's true at #6 they sadly have the same # of L in 2017 as #12 SCSU and risk falling out.

[manurespreader]

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I couldn't get PSU out, even being swept by the goofs, but I did fairly easily get them to 11. I was able to get St Cloud out though( at 15) and not too hard to do.

[Tipsy McStagger]

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I couldn't get PSU out, even being swept by the goofs, but I did fairly easily get them to 11. I was able to get St Cloud out though( at 15) and not too hard to do.

I don't remember saying St. Cloud was better than Penn State, so I'm not sure why you are comparing the two teams. That's probably a toss-up if they played each other. I said Penn State is choking. They are. St. Cloud was never even in the top 10 in the country, let alone number one.

I went on CHN and put in splits the rest of the way for Penn State and got them down to 15, so you must not have tried hard enough to get them out. A sweep for Vermont or BC when they play each other likely puts them ahead of Penn State too.