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2021-22 Penn State Nittany Lions

Lindsay said:
Adolffson was named to team Sweden for the Olympics I see. And Allison Coomey is going as a US scout I think? Congrats to both.
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I see where UMD's Soderberg has also been named to the Swedish team.
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sp...am-leaving-ope

And also,
"The Bulldogs aren’t the only WCHA team losing their starting goaltender to the Olympics. Buckeyes senior Andrea Braendli is also heading to Beijing with Switzerland, though OSU will have three other options, including two who have started a game this season."
 
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D2D said:
I see where UMD's Soderberg has also been named to the Swedish team.
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sp...am-leaving-ope

And also,
"The Bulldogs aren’t the only WCHA team losing their starting goaltender to the Olympics. Buckeyes senior Andrea Braendli is also heading to Beijing with Switzerland, though OSU will have three other options, including two who have started a game this season."
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UMD has a habit of sending players to the Olympics, and half of them are Scandinavian...lots of Olympic-level Finns and Swedes (and Swiss and Canadian and German and Russian and, oh, some Americans) have gone through that program.
 
Levy was a brick wall when facing PSU. If I had to guess she received a summer full of privates. She has considerably cooled off. PSU lost both games 2-1 one being in ot and outshot BC all day 42-17 in both games. When BU played PSU, BU was second in the conference and lost to two CHA teams that weekend.

PSU has a good record against Hockey East over the last three years. If PSU can compete with the Hockey East teams, one can extrapolate that to Syracuse and Mercy Hurst, also being able to.

As far as overhyped last year, I'm still trying to figure out how a spreadsheet that used other years was used to influence getting in Providence and BC over PSU.
But, I could really care less as that ship sailed long ago.

As far as the comments that PSU does not have enough talent, I am going to respectfully disagree. Don't worry I have the same position on Syracuse. Do I think that PSU is in the top tier? No, I don't. But, there is slot of parity in 5-20.
 
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Nice interview, media has fallen dramatically from the start of the season. I'm not sure how it helps PSU, but I'm sure it is a feather in her cap. And I like to see Kampersal gave her the thumbs up. That shows a good boss.






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Another nice interview. It was really interesting that the sponsor for the program was Mike Boyle who is the father of former RMU player Michela Boyle
 
How does the points % the CHA using work? I can’t make sense of the current standings. Mercyhurst is 6-2 but has a points % of .500? Makes no sense to me.
 
spwood said:
How does the points % the CHA is using work? I can't make sense of the current standings. Mercyhurst is 6-2 but has a points % of .500? Makes no sense to me.
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I don't get it, either. The CHA website has Mercyhurst at .500, Syracuse at .400, and Penn State at .375, but:

Mercyhurst has won 6 of 8 conference games...that makes them .750 in CHA play

Syracuse has won 7 of 10 conference games...that makes them .700 in CHA play

Penn State has won 5 of 8 conference games...that makes them .625 in CHA play
 
ZedLeppelin said:
I don't get it, either. The CHA website has Mercyhurst at .500, Syracuse at .400, and Penn State at .375, but:

Mercyhurst has won 6 of 8 conference games...that makes them .750 in CHA play

Syracuse has won 7 of 10 conference games...that makes them .700 in CHA play

Penn State has won 5 of 8 conference games...that makes them .625 in CHA play
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USCHO standings page appears correct (unlike the CHA website) with Mercyhurst at 0.750, Syracuse at 0.700, and PSU at 0.688 (5 wins & 1 tie in 8 conference games --> 11/16 points).
 
Boy those two cancelled games can come into play! At any rate it will be a nail biting finish for Mercyhurst, Syracuse and PSU. It's a little sad RMU is not in the mix also.
 
Reddington said:
Boy those two cancelled games can come into play! At any rate it will be a nail biting finish for Mercyhurst, Syracuse and PSU. It's a little sad RMU is not in the mix also.
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The rest of the conference misses having a competitive Robert Morris, too. They're back in 2023-24, thankfully, but now they need to create an entire team (and staff), when they had already built the program up to where it was. I think it was a good idea to not just bring them back next season, but instead give them a year to recruit and set the program back up before they hit the ice. This year and next year are a CHA with five teams, and then that's over, but it does change the CHA tournament a bit.

With the CHA being down to five teams, now the top three all get a bye on the first day and will play a two-game tournament - only Lindenwood or RIT will play on three consecutive days. If the tournament started tomorrow (going with standings as they are right now), the tournament would look like this:

February 24 (Thursday) - #4 Lindenwood vs #5 RIT
February 25 (Friday) - #4 Lindenwood or #5 RIT vs #1 Mercyhurst, and #2 Syracuse vs #3 Penn State
February 26 (Saturday) - CHA championship game

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I'm not sure where the tournament is this year. The CHA website can't even get the dates right. One part of the tournament page says February 24-26, and the same page also says March 24-26...well, it also says it's the 2022 tournament, and the 2002 tournament in March...on the same page...and this same page says the tournament is at the top seed school, but it's the CHA website, so who knows? If you went strictly by the CHA website, there will be two tournaments, a 2022 tournament in February and a 2002 tournament in March (after the national tournament?). I really wish they would hire somebody whose only job is the website.
 
From what I understand the tournament will be hosted by whoever finishes in first place. But who knows if this is accurate as things change daily.

This could be hard to plan logistically (hotels etc). At least with it in Buffalo the past while, teams would know right now where they were going to be tournament weekend and plan accordingly.

First place might not get decided until the weekend before and then teams might have to scramble to make travel plans.
 
Penn State and Mercyhurst go at it this weekend at Penn State in a critical series for both teams. Game time tomorrow and Saturday is 2:00 (Eastern) for both games.

Both games will be streamed on the BTN+ network (subscription required), and tomorrow's game is here: https://www.bigtenplus.com/en-int/playerpage/1170985

It's crunch time - after this weekend, Penn State only has one series left with Syracuse and one with RIT, and that's it for conference games...and points. After this weekend, Syracuse will have Penn State and Mercyhurst. Mercyhurst will still have a series against Syracuse, one with Lindenwood, and one with RIT, so two more conference games than Penn State and Syracuse to work on points/percentage.

When Penn State and Mercyhurst played in late October, they split the series. Key for Penn State will be stopping Mercyhurst's freshman Vanessa Upson, who is an easy lock for CHA Freshman of the Year. In October, Upson had a goal and two assists in the first game, and Mercyhurst won, but she didn't score in the second game and Penn State won.
 
Zed you make it so easy to follow even when you really don't want to by scouting out the times. Thanks. Kampersal is right on that Mercyhurst does not like PSU and he hinted on his big roster causing problems for him and the girls. However, it is now down to 19 skaters which seems manageable to me and more hopefully to him. It now goes to a percentage to determine the CHA winner apparently because of the two Lindenwood cancellations.

But, that interview guy serves up softballs to his guests. I was waiting on a line ? and it never came.
 
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Zed you make it so easy to follow even when you really don't want to by scouting out the times. Thanks. Kampersal is right on that Mercyhurst does not like PSU and he hinted on his big roster causing problems for him and the girls. However, it is now down to 19 skaters which seems manageable to me and more hopefully to him. It now goes to a percentage to determine the CHA winner apparently because of the two Lindenwood cancellations.

But, that interview guy serves up softballs to his guests. I was waiting on a line ? and it never came.
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The interviewer is Steve Jones, who calls the Penn State football games on radio (and I think he does the basketball games, too). You can tell he's a football guy more than a hockey guy, especially women's hockey, but I'm glad they do spotlight the women's hockey team. I kind of smile when he tries to "sound hockey", but again they're putting the women's team out there, so kudos to them for that.

I just listened to the Inside College Hockey America interview with Mercyhurst freshman Vanessa Upson (posted on the Mercyhurst thread here), and it sounds like Mercyhurst is focused on coming out of the gate at 100 MPH and getting early goals. They don't want to be on their heels early...but neither does Penn State. This should be a really good series this weekend, and it's going to be huge for both teams as opportunities for conference percentage points start coming to an end.

Game time is at 2:00 (Eastern) today, with BTN+ video stream here: https://www.bigtenplus.com/en-int/playerpage/1170985
 
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