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2020-21 Penn State Nittany Lions

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Lindsay said:
If they gave you a media credential would you be allowed a small tripod? All the strict rules don’t make a ton of sense given the circumstances of the games played. Good luck in talking sense into them!
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Yes, a media credential would settle them down, and allow me to use the tabletop tripod (about 12" tall) that I used all season anyway, but they've already denied my request for credentials - because I'm not media. The person who handles the credential requests is the same person who doesn't want players at post-game skates to have my little action cam to skate around with, so I knew in advance I wouldn't get a media pass from him. I requested one anyway, just so I can say I tried. I had one the first couple years of Penn State D-1 hockey, and was just a fan like I am now.

Everything at Penn State revolves around money somehow, and I'm sure the broadcast contract with BTN+ figures into things if you twist it up enough. Obviously, nobody is going to be allowed to do their own livestream at games, especially when they're being broadcast by BTN+, but who would even think they could? And like I said, I understand and agree with a ban on regular stand-behind tripods - there's no place for them without blocking a walkway. Someone in blue and white just came up with a "no tripods" policy, but didn't think it through and get a little more specific.
 
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For the 2020-21 season, it would be nice for Jeff Kampersal to be able to set up lines and leave them alone, so they can form some chemistry. I thought that was a bit of an issue in 2019-20, with lines being mixed up frequently.

Penn State has three returning senior forwards: Natalie Heising, Shea Nelson, and Katie Rankin. Then it will be one junior, three sophomores, and five freshmen - and Amy Dobson, who is rostered as a defender, but she was a forward last year, so she looks like next season's version of Katie McMillan, playing either end as needed.

The defense is intact, assuming all goes well with Jessica Adolfsson's rehab over the summer, and they add incoming freshman Lyndie Lobdell from the national U18 gold medal team (she was also a teammate of Shea Nelson in Chicago). The only issue would be that there are three lines of defenders and no more, so any injury would be a problem. That's where Amy Dobson's versatility would come in.

Goalies won't be a problem, except the good kind of problem. It's going to be interesting to see who grabs the starting spot, and they're going to have to earn it. For the sake of argument, assume Jenna Brenneman is coming back as a grad student/redshirt senior/whatever. If so, having her and Chantal Burke on a roster as seniors is good stuff. If Brenneman decides instead to take her degree and go home, good luck unseating Chantal Burke from the starting job. Josie Bothun comes in as a freshman, so we'll see where her game is when she gets here. At worst, she'll be a junior after Brenneman, Burke, and Cam Leonard are gone.

I think probably the most pressure is on the group of five incoming forwards, because they're absolutely going to have to show up ready to play and make an impact from the start, and not just get their feet wet in D-1 hockey. I don't know if Kampersal would keep seniors Heising, Nelson, and Rankin together, or split them up to anchor three lines.
 
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ZedLeppelin said:
For the 2020-21 season, it would be nice for Jeff Kampersal to be able to set up lines and leave them alone, so they can form some chemistry. I thought that was a bit of an issue in 2019-20, with lines being mixed up frequently.

Penn State has three returning senior forwards: Natalie Heising, Shea Nelson, and Katie Rankin. Then it will be one junior, three sophomores, and five freshmen - and Amy Dobson, who is rostered as a defender, but she was a forward last year, so she looks like next season's version of Katie McMillan, playing either end as needed.
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So you’re counting out Fidler and Slattery who will be Jr forwards next year?
 
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Offsides Guy said:
So you’re counting out Fidler and Slattery who will be Jr forwards next year?
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Oops...I guess I got too used to them being out this season. So add a senior forward and a junior forward to the 2020-21 list, until someone official says otherwise with those two.
 
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Went to Walmart yesterday for groceries and left just shaking my head at the nonsense. If anyone has a guess as to when the stockpiling circus will end so I can go buy a normal load of groceries like a normal person, I'm all ears. On a bright note, I got the last two frozen cheese pizzas...now on sale from my freezer for $50,000 each. Please, no fighting.
 
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ZedLeppelin said:
On a bright note, I got the last two frozen cheese pizzas...now on sale from my freezer for $50,000 each. Please, no fighting.
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I happened to buy a freshly baked pepperoni pizza at Costco yesterday for $9.99. Carried it out to my car without anyone trying to steal or buy it from me! Was in and out of the store in less than 15 minutes.
 
ZedLeppelin said:
Went to Walmart yesterday for groceries and left just shaking my head at the nonsense. If anyone has a guess as to when the stockpiling circus will end so I can go buy a normal load of groceries like a normal person, I'm all ears. On a bright note, I got the last two frozen cheese pizzas...now on sale from my freezer for $50,000 each. Please, no fighting.
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Toilet papering your trees will increase the value of your home by 200%
 
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Does anyone know why USCHO is so bad at helping someone with their account? I bought a new PC four days ago, and couldn't log in here because I had no idea what my USCHO password was anymore, so I asked for help resetting my password. The only response I got, three days later, was an email asking, "Do you still need help?". That's it, nothing after that. So, anyway, I added a letter to my user name and made a new account.

How is everyone doing with the self-imposed "quarantine"? On a side note, I'm so willing to stimulate the economy that I've decided to offer to take anyone's stimulus check if they don't want it, and stimulate the hell out of the economy for them. I would do this for you, free of charge, because...ummmm...'murica, or something. :D
 
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ZedLeppellin said:
Does anyone know why USCHO is so bad at helping someone with their account?
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As with most things on USCHO, there isn't staff, or even a full-time person, whose job it is to monitor administrative issues. I'm guessing that most of the available admin hours invested go to keeping the site operating, and there isn't resource for fixing issues that impact a single user. This is just a guess as another forum user; I'm not speaking officially for USCHO.

ZedLeppellin said:
I bought a new PC four days ago, and couldn't log in here because I had no idea what my USCHO password was anymore, so I asked for help resetting my password.
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It's unfortunate that the forum still uses an outdated method of requiring an admin to reset a forgotten password, rather than upon request sending a reset-password email to the address associated with the account. When it has forced me to change my password over the years, I always immediately change it back to the one password that I remember here; otherwise, I'd be in the same situation as you.
 
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ZedLeppellin said:
I bought a new PC four days ago, and couldn't log in here because I had no idea what my USCHO password was anymore, so I asked for help resetting my password. The only response I got, three days later, was an email asking, "Do you still need help?". That's it, nothing after that. So, anyway, I added a letter to my user name and made a new account.
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You might consider making an Excel file of your passwords. My file right now contains 252 sites with different passwords and counting. :D

ZedLeppellin said:
How is everyone doing with the self-imposed "quarantine"? On a side note, I'm so willing to stimulate the economy that I've decided to offer to take anyone's stimulus check if they don't want it, and stimulate the hell out of the economy for them. I would do this for you, free of charge, because...ummmm...'murica, or something. :D
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My granddaughter already has dibbs on our stimulus checks (according to my wife). :D
 
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ARM said:
It's unfortunate that the forum still uses an outdated method of requiring an admin to reset a forgotten password, rather than upon request sending a reset-password email to the address associated with the account. When it has forced me to change my password over the years, I always immediately change it back to the one password that I remember here; otherwise, I'd be in the same situation as you.
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Anywhere else, it's always been what you said - an email to you that lets you just reset your password and that's the end of it. I don't know why USCHO has a "contact us" button when there's no "us" to contact. I'd sure like my old account back, though.
 
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vicb said:
You might consider making an Excel file of your passwords. My file right now contains 252 sites with different passwords and counting. :D
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252 sites?? You need a second computer just to store links!

My granddaughter already has dibbs on our stimulus checks (according to my wife). :D
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Okay, I'll go halves with her then, but I won't be happy about it. Kids these days...hmmmmph.
 
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Finally, I got my original account reset and back in action on this new computer. Much thanks to Geoffrey Chiles for his help in getting my password reset.
 
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EMPTYNETTER said:
I must say, it's pretty depressing not to have current sports highlights to watch these days.
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I watch a lot of horse racing these days, because it's about the only live sport I can find.

Tennis and golf are sports that could actually exist fairly well with TV only, given that they want the fans to stay quiet and social distancing wouldn't be tough. Get dressed in the hotel instead of the locker room. Would probably have to do w/o ball kids in tennis and each player would have to serve with a separate set of balls. But if this continues and sports channels are desperate for programming ...
 
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ARM said:
I watch a lot of horse racing these days, because it's about the only live sport I can find.

Tennis and golf are sports that could actually exist fairly well with TV only, given that they want the fans to stay quiet and social distancing wouldn't be tough. Get dressed in the hotel instead of the locker room. Would probably have to do w/o ball kids in tennis and each player would have to serve with a separate set of balls. But if this continues and sports channels are desperate for programming ...
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Desperate for programming? I just watched the entire re-broadcast of last year's Masters Golf Tournament. Tiger won (again).
 
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