College Hockey News · Feb 24, 2022
From Frying Pan to Fire
Meyers Returned from Olympics Just in Time to Help Gophers
CHN Staff Report
Related ArticlesThree days before he helped Minnesota rescue a game that seemed like a lost cause, Ben Meyers was half a world away.
The Minnesota forward, along with his teammates Brock Faber and Matthew Knies, played for Team USA on Wednesday in Beijing, as the Americans bowed out of the Olympics with a quarterfinal loss to Slovakia.
On Saturday, Meyers and Faber were in the lineup for the Gophers, trailing Penn State 3-0 after one period at Pegula Ice Arena.
“We knew we didn’t play our best in the first,” Meyers said later. “We knew we had more, and we just didn’t give up. It was that simple.”