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2025-26 Penn State Nittany Lions

Good analysis above, but no discussion of the rankers taking into consideration the Olympics. I'll throw that into the mix.

PSU wins 4-2 and Stecker, who I think has never played center, comes in and wins almost 60 percent of her faceoffs and leads the team in faceoff percentage. That's a versatile player.

Still no Vaslet.

And Kampersal goes back to Keller Outwater and Christian.
 
That's a wrap for the AHA regular season. Final standings look like this:

1 - Penn State
2 - Mercyhurst
3 - Lindenwood
4 - RIT
5 - Syracuse
6 - Robert Morris
7 - Delaware

So...

Thursday, February 19, #6 Robert Morris and #7 Delaware have to play a single game at #3 Lindenwood to get rid of the seventh team before the AHA tournament.

Saturday, February 21 (quarterfinals), the winner of #6 Robert Morris and #7 Delaware will play #3 Lindenwood, and #5 Syracuse will play #4 RIT at RIT.

Friday, February 27 - Sunday, March 1 (semifinals), lowest remaining seed plays #1 Penn State at Penn State, and second lowest remaining seed plays #2 Mercyhurst at Mercyhurst.

Saturday, March 7 (AHA Championship), hosted by highest remaining seed.
 
Really nice Valentine's Day crowd for today's game against RIT. 1462, eighth largest attendance ever for PSU women's hockey.
 
Great on the attendance. PSU will end up with three 20 goal scorers Janecke, Outwater and Christian. Christian will end up with two 20 goal seasons as a Junior and Senior. Her junior year was obviously not a fluke and has repeated it again.

Janecke should petition the NCAA for a fifth year of eligibility, I'm not sure if that is even possible, but I have read about plenty of Wisconsin players getting that. Janecke could get some of that NIL money Penn State has for the football players, get her Master's and can ask to be part of the announcing team for Men's hockey just like Jurevicious is doing in volleyball.

BTW, Lyndsay Eastwood the former Syracuse player who I thought would be a good fit for a hybrid coaching/announcing position for PSU was hired by the NHL Philadelphia Flyers in the front office. I was not the only one who could see the talent.

Janecke has that type of talent on and off the ice.
 
Reddington said:
Janecke should petition the NCAA for a fifth year of eligibility, I'm not sure if that is even possible, but I have read about plenty of Wisconsin players getting that. necke has that type of talent on and off the ice.
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No idea what that "Wisconsin" part is supposed to mean.

The only "fifth year" any Wisconsin player is getting comes under the same rules that apply to all (non-football) NCAA athletes: "red shirt" years; medical hardship years; and for one current Badger, the old 'Olympic centralization' rules and COVID year rules still apply. That's Lacey Eden, who played a COVID year at UW in 2021 that didn't count against the normal NCAA time limits, then didn't play at all in 2022 because she was "centralized". Making her four years of eligibility to play being the years ending in the spring 0f 2021 (didn't count because of COVID), 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026. She is the one exception, and that's because of COVID. The only other player to mention is Marianne Picard, for whom 2021-22 was/is a normal medical hardship year; she played six games, then injured a knee and was gone for the rest of that year. So her four years of play are years ending in 2023,24,25,26.

(To go the other way, Badger forward Claire Enright is eligible for a medical hardship year for the 2023-24 season that she is choosing to NOT take.)

Janecke was a 2022-23 freshman without any red shirt or medical hardship to be considered, just like KK Harvey and Laila Edwards and Kirsten Simms, who will have played their fourth year this season, and will be out of eligibility, with no basis to "petition the NCAA for a fifth year".
 
Thanks for the clarification on centralization, but I can remember others writing about finding a year and it seemed to be a bit more whimsical, but maybe it was just sarcasm, lol.

I guess I was kind of having recency bias with the Mississippi football player getting another year and it's not apples to apples it's apples to oranges.
 
Penn State currently at #3 in the NPI **and** the USCHO poll after Minnesota lost twice in OT to Duluth. As Reddington noted, Penn State faces Syracuse in the AHA semifinals starting Friday night with presumably all three Olympians back from Italy. I noticed Fantin was at Thon on Saturday for the pep rally so she must have returned after the quarterfinal game. Janecke was definitely at the closing ceremonies yesterday, not sure about Hall.
 
I can totally see Janecke staying for the Olympic Closing Ceremony after winning the gold. All the athletes seemed to be enjoying the experience. Thon on Saturday looked as big as ever.
 
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