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2026 Frozen Four

ZedLeppellin said:
Think about it: Tessa Janecke is the only Olympic-level player on her team. She's not surrounded by other players who are at that level, at a program already at or near the top, enjoying a loaded roster. If she wants to win games and elevate the Penn State program, she knows that won't happen by worrying about getting "eye popping numbers" for herself. She doesn't get to play that game. Instead, to win games, she's had to make everyone around her be a better player, too, and she's done that. Take Janecke away and put the best player from Wisconsin, Minnesota, or Ohio State on the Penn State roster, and their numbers wouldn't be eye popping, either. At a program level, she is very much a generational player, and that's probably how Jeff Kampersal meant that.

Janecke has said that she chose Penn State over Wisconsin or Minnesota because she wanted to make a program better than when she got there. That's been her motivation - not gaudy numbers. She's played her game exactly the way she's needed to play it to make the program better, and she's done it with no other Olympic-level players skating alongside her.
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People forget you get a degree as well as playing hockey, Penn State is no slouch in giving a quality education.
 
Hockeybuckeye said:
As usual you read what others said about Penn State winning in a different perspective than what was said.
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I disagree. I think I read what was said accurately. The comments were MUCH more with regard to "a home team winning", not "this year's home team winning".

Tell me which posts you think refer specifically to Penn State winning, between the start of the thread, and you "I'm puzzled how fans here think Penn State could win it all?" comment.
 
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robertearle said:
I disagree. I think I read what was said accurately. The comments were MUCH more with regard to "a home team winning", not "this year's home team winning".

Tell me which posts you think refer specifically to Penn State winning, between the start of the thread, and you "I'm puzzled how fans here think Penn State could win it all?" comment.
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Pretty sure it was Windchill who posted about the "home team" making it to the final four and then Tim went off puking up if PSU would win it at home. ;) I don't think anyone posted about predicting that they would win it. Side out robertearle.
 
BowWowWow said:
Yale in fact was the most recent program to make it to the FF for the first time in 2022, and before that it was Northeastern in 2021. In the past three seasons, all the teams have been before.
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Thanks for that. In the back of my mind, I remembered an ECAC team defeating another ECAC team to get there. I knew that "Q" had a good showing, and Yale had a season where the stars aligned, but I have no real memory of them playing an FF game. I guess that was the year where UMD beat UM on the road on its path to a final meeting with tOSU.

As for PSU this season, everybody expects UW to win. Just like I expected Nebraska to win in WVB and NDSU to win in the FCS, but neither of those teams made the semifinals.
 
ARM said:
Thanks for that. In the back of my mind, I remembered an ECAC team defeating another ECAC team to get there. I knew that "Q" had a good showing, and Yale had a season where the stars aligned, but I have no real memory of them playing an FF game. I guess that was the year where UMD beat UM on the road on its path to a final meeting with tOSU.

As for PSU this season, everybody expects UW to win. Just like I expected Nebraska to win in WVB and NDSU to win in the FCS, but neither of those teams made the semifinals.
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One of my favorite 'sports' statistics is that NFL kickers make about 95% of their extra-point tries. And yet every week, there's a kicker or two somewhere around the league who misses one.

Because 95% is not 100%. Sometimes the "95% likely" thing doesn't happen.
 
ARM said:
As for PSU this season, everybody expects UW to win. Just like I expected Nebraska to win in WVB and NDSU to win in the FCS, but neither of those teams made the semifinals.
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Nice job trolling a certain fanbase. A+

I never expect any certain team to win a title in any sport. Anything can happen once the playoffs start.
 
More will be known about penny ante state after the break when they have games against Cornell and the yuckeyes. It is not their fault that they are in the conference that isn't as strong as the WCHA but then again, no other conference is. And with that, they deserve credit for taking care of business and winning most all of their games, that much can be said.
 
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