“That starts with our attitude in practice,” junior forward Chase Berger said on Monday. “If you start thinking about the negatives and the outside stuff, we’re slipping and things like that,
Source: Penn State Hockey: Nittany Lions Have Work Left To Do With NCAA Tournament In Sight
HV Note: This sentence in the article is wrong:
“At No. 16 in the PairWise rankings Penn State would be the last team into the NCAA field, and maybe the first out if a conference tournament is forced to award an automatic-bid to a Cinderella story.”
Actually, PSU is out right now whether there are any Cinderellas or not. There are NO Atlantic Hockey teams ranked in the Pairwise top 16 (highest is Canisius at #31), so their champ will take what will almost assuredly be the last seed in the tournament, leaving 15 other slots. That puts PSU on the outside looking in already. A Cinderella would knock #15 Michigan out.