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2022-23 Penn State Nittany Lions

After one, it's Penn State up 3-0 on goals from Lexi Bedier, Kendall Butze, and Kiara Zanon. Shots on goal are 28-4 for Penn State, and Lindenwood took the only three penalties of the period. Penn State is absolutely on fire, and Lindenwood isn't even in this game so far. I don't think I've seen a more dominant opening period from Penn State all season.
 
After two, Penn State is up 5-0 on goals from Tessa Janecke and Alyssa Machado. Shots on goal are 47-9 for Penn State, and Penn State took the only penalty of the period.
 
Penn State sweeps Lindenwood by a score of 7-1 on two more goals from Tessa Janecke, the first hat trick of her NCAA career. Shots on goal were 64-15 for Penn State, and each team took a penalty in the third. This game was all Penn State, all game, and they never let off the gas from start to finish....just very quick and dominating hockey.

Penn State heads to its first ever CHA championship game next weekend.
 
ZedLeppelin said:
Penn State sweeps Lindenwood by a score of 7-1 on two more goals from Tessa Janecke, the first hat trick of her NCAA career. Shots on goal were 64-15 for Penn State, and each team took a penalty in the third. This game was all Penn State, all game, and they never let off the gas from start to finish....just very quick and dominating hockey.

Penn State heads to its first ever CHA championship game next weekend.
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Penn State dominated from start to finish. Tessa's hat trick was awesome and it was also good to see two goals from the third line (Bedier & Machado -- Machado & Bedier each had a goal & an assist, Vaslet had two assists.) Kendall Butze also scored her 2nd goal of the season. With 3 goals & 2 assists today, Tessa is catching up to Kiara on the stat sheet -- Kiara has 48 points and Tessa 46 on the season.

There was a nice, loud supportive crowd on hand, but it wasn't nearly as large as it should have been for a key playoff game. They have added trophy display cases in the main front concourse in Pegula since the last game we went to a few weeks ago including the CHA 2020-21 regular season championship trophy -- they don't yet have this year's trophy on display. Hoping they can add to the trophy collection next weekend!
 
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Both Lindenwood and Syracuse ended the season one game early setting up a grudge match. PSU seeks to rectify the loss in the playoffs last year. As much as I am cheering Janecke on, I had no idea she was closing in on Zanon. A big game like she just had can close a gap in a hurry. However, hold the beer, Zanon has been very consistent and the last game is an outlier. Those two should continue to play on separate lines as both have been productive on separate lines and it becomes hard to scheme against two lines. Bedier looks like a different player lately and has found a groove at the right time.

Sisti is a great coach, but now he has a tough decision as Nystrom has struggled against PSU this year. Brenon almost stole the last game. It was interesting to see that Mercyhurst did not have both goalies play this past weekend.
 
Janecke gets forward of the month and rookie of the month following in Zanon's footsteps. Heminger has been having a great year, gets d of the month. Nystrom gets goalie of the month. It's a pick em game on Saturday. Maybe a crowd record and the band can set the atmosphere.
 
Bothun got jobbed. Not even second team.

Jada Brenon. .94 1.55 gaa Nystrom 92.3 2.22 gaa
Bothun .92 1.82 gaa


I'm not even sure Nystrom is Mercyhurst's best goalie. Of course I didn't look at the quality of starts.

As far as the RIT goalie, it looks like each team had to have one player whether deserving or not.

Lobdell earned her second team with 65 blocks leading PSU in that category.
 
Reddington said:
Bothun got jobbed. Not even second team.

Jada Brenon. .94 1.55 gaa Nystrom 92.3 2.22 gaa
Bothun .92 1.82 gaa


I'm not even sure Nystrom is Mercyhurst's best goalie. Of course I didn't look at the quality of starts.

As far as the RIT goalie, it looks like each team had to have one player whether deserving or not.

Lobdell earned her second team with 65 blocks leading PSU in that category.
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I'd love to know how they put RIT's Sarah Coe ahead of Josie Bothun...on any all-conference team, first or second. Well, if Penn State needed any extra motivation for the championship game against Mercyhurst, there's a little more for them now. The CHA really messed that one up.
 
Reddington said:
Bothun got jobbed. Not even second team.

Jada Brenon. .94 1.55 gaa Nystrom 92.3 2.22 gaa
Bothun .92 1.82 gaa


I'm not even sure Nystrom is Mercyhurst's best goalie. Of course I didn't look at the quality of starts.

As far as the RIT goalie, it looks like each team had to have one player whether deserving or not.

Lobdell earned her second team with 65 blocks leading PSU in that category.
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They seem to use conference games only in their stats, and Nystom leads there in GAA (1.32 vs Bothun's 1.50) and Sv % (0.951 vs Bothun's 0.922).
https://chawomenshockey.com/stats.aspx?path=whockey&year=2022&conf=true

Those numbers are a bit off from what they shared for Nystom when they gave her goalie of the year today, so I assume the numbers above include last weekend's playoff games, which weren't used for the awards.
https://twitter.com/CHAWomensHockey/status/1630965619485966336?s=20

I have no explanation for Coe, other than what Reddington said.
 
Don't forget the win losses. Bothun was 2-1 against Nystrom and 1-0 against Brenon. But, c'est la vie. Plenty of pain and joy for everyone, Boucher had a first team year too. Chips on shoulders abound heading into the weekend on both sides should make for an intense Saturday. I was surprised to read that Mercyhurst has been in 17-21 championship games. That is impressive considering Robert Morris was in the conference too.
 
2022-23 CHA Individual Awards:

CHA Coach of the Year - Jeff Kampersal
CHA Player of the Year - Kiara Zanon
CHA Scoring Champion - Kiara Zanon
CHA Rookie of the Year - Tessa Janecke
CHA Defenseman of the Year - Izzy Heminger

This is the third year in a row for a Penn State player to be named scoring champion (Zanon twice and Natalie Heising last year).
 
Nicole Hasse has the preview for tomorrow's CHA championship game:

https://www.flohockey.tv/articles/1...nt=article&utm_term=thumbnail.chafinalpreview

Both BTN+ and FloHockey will be streaming the game at 2:00 (Eastern).

Video (BTN+): https://www.bigtenplus.com/en-int/playerpage/1588375
Video (FloHockey): https://www.flohockey.tv/live/46714
Live Stats: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=461619

This is already as far as Penn State has ever gotten in program history, and they have their second regular season title now, but it would be nice to hang a CHA championship banner in the rafters at Pegula Ice Arena.

Mercyhurst is all too familiar with CHA championship games (17 championship games in 21 years), so Penn State will need to be on its game tomorrow, because Mercyhurst will be coming for another trophy and another trip to the NCAA tournament. This Penn State team doesn't strike me as one that plays with any chips on their shoulders, but the way they got absolutely shafted two seasons ago by the national tournament selection committee might be in the back of their minds, too. Tomorrow is a chance to keep the selection committee out of their future this time.

Penn State went 3-1 against Mercyhurst in the 2022-23 regular season, with one of the wins needing overtime. Tournament time always seems to be different, though, and that's always true in the CHA. What's great to see this year is that the CHA championship will be played by the two most evenly-matched teams in the conference. With the CHA finally going to a best-of-three format in the semifinals, there shouldn't be any more Cinderella teams making it into the CHA championship game against a Goliath after a "miracle" semifinal one-and-done win. Tomorrow should be some great hockey!
 
After one, it's scoreless in the CHA championship game. Mercyhurst leads the shots on goal by 7-6, and there were no penalties. Neither team really had any quality shots on goal, and it looks exactly like a championship game should look. Penn State, I think, took more chances than Mercyhurst with attemped long stretch passes, but just couldn't connect. This is a great game so far.
 
After two, it's tied up 1-1 at Penn State, with a goal coming from Eleri MacKay. Penn State leads the shots on goal by 22-13, and they took the only penalty of the game (too many players). Penn State really had some good chances in that period, but both teams are doing a good job defensively in shutting chances down pretty quickly.
 
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