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BobPSU92 said:
Disappointing season. Didn’t live up to the hype.

Bye, Gavin.

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Considering that they lost basically two thirds of their games from late January until the end of the season, and also lost almost every game that they played against other Tournament teams, it was an undeserved gift that they even got to play this game. They actually played a good game, but for whatever reason had no energy to impose their will after the first period and basically had to rely on counters, which actually helped them play better defense. However, this Duluth team is a one line team that’s nowhere near as good as Michigan or MSU.

This program now is going to lose most of its impactful players and it will be interesting to see how they reload or rebuild. Unfortunately, this team failed to capitalize on the Final Four appearance, which really could’ve set this program up as a consistent destination for future first and second round draft picks, which you need to compete in the Big 10.
 
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CyphaPSU said:
I think Gavin pretty much did as the conference leader in points, but the rest of the team didn’t (especially defensively). A disappointing whimper to finish out the season.
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During his in-game interview yesterday, Gadowsky basically admitted that PSU’s style is to play run and gun. It’s so obvious that this program lacks a defensive structure and the vast majority of the players neither can’t nor have any desire to play defensive hockey; just look at the poor defensive effort on Duluth’s first goal, which mostly was just lazy play.

For this program to be consistent Final Four caliber, they need to at least have two lines of bigger, more physical defensive minded forwards and several big, physical defensive defensemen who aren’t glory seekers.
 
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BCS PSU said:
This program now is going to lose most of its impactful players and it will be interesting to see how they reload or rebuild. Unfortunately, this team failed to capitalize on the Final Four appearance, which really could’ve set this program up as a consistent destination for future first and second round draft picks, which you need to compete in the Big 10.
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Need the longer term view on the impact of making the Frozen Four. College hockey teams can be highly variable from year-to-year. For example, the team who beat us last year in the Frozen Four didn’t even make the tournament this year, and no one is thinking BU is in bad shape long-term for not following up a FF appearance with a good season this year.

The recruiting needs to continue to build on what they’ve done, especially in the Canadian major junior leagues. There are a lot of needs to be addressed, especially in light of how many goals this team tended to give up. But next year is another opportunity. Just like last year’s success seemingly came out of no where, you never fully know which year could be hugely successful with the right mix of players.
 
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CyphaPSU said:
Need the longer term view on the impact of making the Frozen Four. College hockey teams can be highly variable from year-to-year. For example, the team who beat us last year in the Frozen Four didn’t even make the tournament this year, and no one is thinking BU is in bad shape long-term for not following up a FF appearance with a good season this year.

The recruiting needs to continue to build on what they’ve done, especially in the Canadian major junior leagues. There are a lot of needs to be addressed, especially in light of how many goals this team tended to give up. But next year is another opportunity. Just like last year’s success seemingly came out of no where, you never fully know which year could be hugely successful with the right mix of players.
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I agree with you. However, I just hope that the donors who paid for McKenna and others to come here keep spending the bucks to continue to bring in the same caliber players, and that they don’t become frustrated and stop. If the latter happens, and this goes for every program, they won’t compete for anything.
 
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CyphaPSU said:
Need the longer term view on the impact of making the Frozen Four. College hockey teams can be highly variable from year-to-year. For example, the team who beat us last year in the Frozen Four didn’t even make the tournament this year, and no one is thinking BU is in bad shape long-term for not following up a FF appearance with a good season this year.

The recruiting needs to continue to build on what they’ve done, especially in the Canadian major junior leagues. There are a lot of needs to be addressed, especially in light of how many goals this team tended to give up. But next year is another opportunity. Just like last year’s success seemingly came out of no where, you never fully know which year could be hugely successful with the right mix of players.
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I expected (deserved 😞) better from PSU this year, but it could be worse. Look at MINNY. o_O .
 
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Considering that they lost basically two thirds of their games from late January until the end of the season, and also lost almost every game that they played against other Tournament teams, it was an undeserved gift that they even got to play this game. They actually played a good game, but for whatever reason had no energy to impose their will after the first period and basically had to rely on counters, which actually helped them play better defense. However, this Duluth team is a one line team that’s nowhere near as good as Michigan or MSU.

This program now is going to lose most of its impactful players and it will be interesting to see how they reload or rebuild. Unfortunately, this team failed to capitalize on the Final Four appearance, which really could’ve set this program up as a consistent destination for future first and second round draft picks, which you need to compete in the Big 10.
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You are still so clueless
 
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WVilleLion said:
You are still so clueless
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Like I said before, my analysis of this team back in January was 100% spot-on and correctly predicted where this team was headed. If you think that I’m wrong, just scroll back to the time at or around the MSU home series; those posts still should be there.
 
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Like I said before, my analysis of this team back in January was 100% spot-on and correctly predicted where this team was headed. If you think that I’m wrong, just scroll back to the time at or around the MSU home series; those posts still should be there.
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And if we would have won last night you would have been silent until we lost to Mich. and if we would have beat Mich you would have been silent until the next loss.

You want to act like you know much, but the fact that you said team was gifted with being in tourney and didn’t belong was dispelled last night. Until a really poor clear attempt and weird bounce they were tied with a really good NCHC team that you say is only one line shows how little you really know. You don’t really know much at all about college hockey. Even a blind squirrel like you gets lucky and finds a nut every once in a while. Doesn’t mean you are actually intelligent and knowledgeable.
 
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Tom McAndrew said:
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In this NIL world, he may be back.

"In other news; Penn State goes from D1 hockey newbie to NCAA regular.


And for the record, I wanted you to beat Minnesota Jr (Aka lil northern brother). "They not like us..."
 
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BCS PSU said:
Like I said before, my analysis of this team back in January was 100% spot-on and correctly predicted where this team was headed. If you think that I’m wrong, just scroll back to the time at or around the MSU home series; those posts still should be there.
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Stop gloating... even a blind squirrel finds an acorn occasionally. You also wondered if we'd give up 6 or 7 goals this game. How about 1 thru 55 minutes.
 
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