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2021-22 Penn State Nittany Lions

This is probably a dumb question, but being at Penn State a women's national tournament has never been a thing, so I've never had a team in the tournament: is there ever video streaming of the tournament, or is it a "be there or you miss it" thing? I probably wouldn't go if Penn State doesn't make at least the first round, but it would still be fun to watch. Does the NCAA decide on a video stream, or does the host get that option?
 
ZedLeppelin said:
This is probably a dumb question, but being at Penn State a women's national tournament has never been a thing, so I've never had a team in the tournament: is there ever video streaming of the tournament, or is it a "be there or you miss it" thing? I probably wouldn't go if Penn State doesn't make at least the first round, but it would still be fun to watch. Does the NCAA decide on a video stream, or does the host get that option?
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The NCAA usually controls all streaming of their championship events. Last year, one Semifinal was on ESPN3, and the other semi- and the final were on ESPNU.

Edit: here's the story announcing it last year: https://hurstathletics.com/news/202...ens-frozen-four-to-be-broadcasted-on-tsn.aspx
 
Penn State heads to New Hampshire this week for a Thursday/Friday matchup with the UNH Wildcats, and it's the last series before the three-week holiday break. I haven't seen anything about video streaming on either team's schedule, so that's probably not happening. I don't know if UNH ever does videos at their home games, but it would be fun to watch. I'm wondering if Olivia Wallin will get back in the lineup this season, but this wouldn't be the series to bring her back when there's a three-week break coming - she could do a little more recovering before the important second half of the schedule. Then again, maybe some shifts in a non-conference game might be good for her. Who knows? That's why I'm not a coach.

The more exciting upcoming series is the Jan. 1-2 "Battle In The 'Burgh" tournament in Pittsburgh, with Penn State, Syracuse, St. Cloud, and Boston University. Penn State opens that one against St. Cloud, and hopefully gets a shot at Syracuse...but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Anyway, hockey on Thursday and Friday at New Hampshire to end the first half of this 2021-22 season.
 
ZedLeppelin said:
Penn State heads to New Hampshire this week for a Thursday/Friday matchup with the UNH Wildcats, and it's the last series before the three-week holiday break. I haven't seen anything about video streaming on either team's schedule, so that's probably not happening. I don't know if UNH ever does videos at their home games, but it would be fun to watch. I'm wondering if Olivia Wallin will get back in the lineup this season, but this wouldn't be the series to bring her back when there's a three-week break coming - she could do a little more recovering before the important second half of the schedule. Then again, maybe some shifts in a non-conference game might be good for her. Who knows? That's why I'm not a coach.

The more exciting upcoming series is the Jan. 1-2 "Battle In The 'Burgh" tournament in Pittsburgh, with Penn State, Syracuse, St. Cloud, and Boston University. Penn State opens that one against St. Cloud, and hopefully gets a shot at Syracuse...but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Anyway, hockey on Thursday and Friday at New Hampshire to end the first half of this 2021-22 season.
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Hockey East is in the third year of a deal with CBS College Sports Live to stream all of the home games hosted by HE teams (both Women and Men). This is normally a pay site with an extensive number of schools and sports covered, but the Hockey East games are free. Here is the link to the Women's Hockey games:

https://www.collegesportslive.com/schedule/womens-ice-hockey/

I took at look to confirm the Penn State games are there and there is one listed as being yesterday at 9:50 AM. Assuming that this was an error while adding the games and hopefully the Thursday & Friday games will be added.

The camera work and announcers vary from school to school but HE fans are very fortunate to have this resource.

And if you can't watch the games live, they are usually included in the Archive section for a few days.
 
Double Eagle said:
Hockey East is in the third year of a deal with CBS College Sports Live to stream all of the home games hosted by HE teams (both Women and Men). This is normally a pay site with an extensive number of schools and sports covered, but the Hockey East games are free. Here is the link to the Women's Hockey games:

https://www.collegesportslive.com/sc...ns-ice-hockey/

I took at look to confirm the Penn State games are there and there is one listed as being yesterday at 9:50 AM. Assuming that this was an error while adding the games and hopefully the Thursday & Friday games will be added.

The camera work and announcers vary from school to school but HE fans are very fortunate to have this resource.

And if you can't watch the games live, they are usually included in the Archive section for a few days.
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Agreed, I have taken advantage of the free streams from CBS College Sports as I have been interested in keeping track of Hockey East teams like bc and NE to compare to WCHA teams. Technically sound broadcasts and usually quite good announcing as well. I've only seen Penn State once this year by stream so it will be interesting to see them against UNH. They should sweep this series.
 
ZedLeppelin said:
Got it - thanks for that.

I don't know anything about New Hampshire, so what's your take on this series?
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I really don't know. Penn State looks strong this year, and have had some good results. UNH has better speed and talent than they've had, and can play tight when they're all there and on their A game. Whether that happens?
 
After one, it's 1-0 Penn State, on a goal actually scored by a UNH defender...but it counts. Lyndie Lobdell sent a pass across the crease, and the UNH defender got her stick down to block it, but ended up deflecting it into her own goal. Penn State leads the shots on goal 10-8, but overall shots are 20-9, so that tells you where a lot of the play has been going on. Neither team had a penalty.

Penn State looks rusty, but still didn't have a lot of trouble. Passing isn't the best so far, but they should settle into the game and get going before long. It's good to see Olivia Wallin finally able to be back on the ice. Of course she's not on the top line, but she's getting her game skates warmed up, anyway.
 
After two, it's still 1-0 Penn State. Shots on goal are 17-15 for Penn State, and in that period they took the only penalty of the game so far. Penn State looks tired, rusty, or whatever...just really slow. The top line looks okay, but it's just a really sluggish effort so far. Way too many players are standing still, waiting for pucks, rather than stepping up and going after it, and passing isn't very sharp, either. I think this would be a very different game if it were a home game for Penn State, but that sounds like an excuse.
 
Penn State comes away with the 3-0 win over UNH, on goals from Mya Vaslet and a Natalie Heising empty-netter. Shots on goal were 24-23 for Penn State, and Penn State took the only two penalties of the game. It wasn't pretty, but Penn State looked better in the third than they did in the first two periods. Tomorrow should be a different look, hopefully, now that they've gotten their game legs going.
 
ZedLeppelin said:
Penn State comes away with the 3-0 win over UNH, on goals from Mya Vaslet and a Natalie Heising empty-netter. Shots on goal were 24-23 for Penn State, and Penn State took the only two penalties of the game. It wasn't pretty, but Penn State looked better in the third than they did in the first two periods. Tomorrow should be a different look, hopefully, now that they've gotten their game legs going.
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That was a little hard to watch the first two periods. Penn State, as you said, seemed to get a little more flow in the third and finished it off.
 
With tonight's win, Josie Bothun now has the most wins of any goalie in program history, so congratulations to her for that. She really made some critical saves tonight.
 
Sorry to hear on the tough to watch game. I just checked the stats. A two week layoff usually spells doom for PSU so that's a positive. It looks like Wallin is back. I noticed they had only 4 blocks and UNH had 23 shots. The blocks are low, the shots are high in my estimation and that needs to be corrected in game two if they want the second game. And it looks like Heising's good deed earlier in the year was repaid by Zanon on the empty netter. Again that's nice to see. A nice shutout, but a goal was waived off or challenged apparently. Great link on the UNH highlights. The next three games for PSU are very important if PSU wants to get back to being ranked.
 
After one, it's Penn State up 1-0 on UNH on a nice sneaky goal from Alyssa Machado. Penn State took two penalties and UNH took one. The biggie: Lyndie Lobdell took a five-minute game misconduct with 7 minutes to go, but Penn State killed it off. UNH didn't have a shot on goal (or a shot, period) in the first 13 minutes of the game. This one looks like I thought last night would look, so that's good news. UNH didn't do anything offensively until they got the five minute powerplay.
 
After two, it's Penn State up 2-0 at UNH on a goal from Mikayla Lantto. Shots on goal are 20-13 for Penn State, and Penn State has taken three penalties and UNH has taken two. I think all but one or two shots from UNH have been on the powerplay, including the five minute major in the first, so the Penn State defense is really smothering any good chances for UNH. The defense isn't the only reason UNH can't get anything going offensively, though, because Penn State is doing a great job of forechecking and keeping the puck in the UNH zone, so the defense hasn't really had to do a lot in the Penn State zone.
 
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