Black Shoe Diaries · Nov 24, 2019
Penn State Falls 4-3 To Ohio State
Heather Weikel | Black Shoe DiariesFolkes (5) Limoges (7)
Laczynski (4) Ahac (2), Ege (5)
Barratt (3) Folkes (6), Bell (3)
Preston (3) Nappier (1)
Myer (1) Westlund (6)
Biro (7) Smirnov (8), Sucese (14)
Westlund (6) Laczynski (9), Preston (4)
Guy Gadowsky often preaches about how random hockey can be. With the randomness of goalies, officials and a rubber puck bouncing around, even the best performance can be hindered by a hot goalie or mental errors.
While that can make assessing his team’s performance difficult, there are a couple statistics Gadowsky refers to when needed — faceoffs and odd-man rushes. In Saturday’s 4-3 loss to Ohio State, Penn State was on the wrong side of both.