{"id":131437,"date":"2022-01-13T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?p=131437"},"modified":"2022-01-13T00:25:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T06:25:42","slug":"this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: St. Cloud State navigating pandemic, but ‘it just seems like no matter what you do, you can\u2019t be perfect’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
St. Cloud State players celebrate a recent Easton Brodzinski goal (photo: St. Cloud State Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We\u2019re not yet waking up to Sonny & Cher every morning, but college hockey teams might feel they\u2019re living out \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d with the COVID-19 pandemic entering, to borrow an eligibility term, its junior year.<\/p>\n

St. Cloud State, ranked fifth in the latest DCU\/USCHO Division I Men’s Poll, is fresh off an unexpected bye week. The Huskies\u2019 scheduled home series last weekend against No. 7 Minnesota Duluth was called off due to COVID-19 protocols within UMD\u2019s program. St. Cloud coach Brett Larson found out last Wednesday when Huskies sports information director Andrew Melroe hopped onto the bench midway through practice to share the news.<\/p>\n

In addition, SCSU’s series this coming weekend at Denver has been postponed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time that SCSU has had games affected because of the pandemic, and the Huskies sweated out a player\u2019s false positive test on the morning of their 2021 national championship game defeat against Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

More recently, games across the country have been affected as the Omicron variant has further strained health care systems.<\/p>\n

The Huskies have done what they feel they reasonably can \u2014 \u201cWith the definition of fully vaxxed, including boosters and whatnot, our team is fully vaccinated,\u201d Larson said this Tuesday \u2014 but for as much as they try, ending the pandemic isn\u2019t down just to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what I\u2019ve seen with the youth teams around here to kids in school, it just seems like no matter what you do, you can\u2019t be perfect,\u201d Larson said. \u201cThere\u2019s no way; you\u2019d have to go lock yourself up in your room. With the guys being vaxxed and boosted, it almost feels like it\u2019s to the point where you can only control what you can control, but there is just a little bit of risk (because) this thing is so contagious.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s a hope that maybe the wave comes through and kind of hits hard but short, I guess, and that we can work our way through it, but I just don\u2019t know how much more teams can do other than have their players sit in their houses, and that\u2019s just not possible. If you get it, we\u2019re not blaming anyone and we\u2019re not getting on guys, saying, \u2018Hey, what did you do wrong that you got it?\u2019 It really seems to be all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Redshirt senior forward Easton Brodzinski has spent around half of his collegiate career living through a pandemic that has cost over 840,000 American lives and has killed 5.5 million people worldwide.<\/p>\n

Brodzinski had 13 goals last season and collected three in eight games during the NCHC\u2019s season-opening pod at Omaha\u2019s Baxter Arena. This season, he has a team-best nine goals and is averaging just under a point per game.<\/p>\n

Things are going pretty well on the ice for him, at a time when ensuring playing time isn\u2019t simply about hockey.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s obviously a lot of give and take,\u201d Brodzinski said. \u201cLast year, we sort of didn\u2019t have a life. We sort of hung out at home and at the rink.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s something that we have to all take into consideration again, just trying to protect ourselves as much as we can so that we\u2019re able to play, but there\u2019s also that thin line of, \u2018Hey, I still want to hang out with the guys outside of the rink. I still want to see some of my friends.\u2019 It\u2019s just a thin line, but you want to make sure the people around you are safe, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

His coach is also dealing with that. Larson knows that the job description has seen changes in the time of COVID.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m paying attention to players\u2019 health a lot more, and you\u2019re really trying to manage rest,\u201d Larson said. \u201cA lot of things that were always important have become even more important now.<\/p>\n

\u201cRest, hydration, their nutrition, all those things that help your immune system be as good as it can be. All those things that were always important have become almost forefront for you to try and keep your guys as healthy as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hockey coaches, players and analysts like to talk about puck luck. Now more than ever, though, good fortune is also needed away from the ice.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as we\u2019ve done what we can do to stay as safe as we can,\u201d Larson said, \u201cThen that\u2019s all we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re not yet waking up to Sonny & Cher every morning, but college hockey teams might feel they\u2019re living out \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d with the COVID-19 pandemic entering, to borrow an eligibility term, its junior year. St. Cloud State, ranked fifth in the latest DCU\/USCHO Division I Men’s Poll, is fresh off an unexpected bye week. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":131438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[812],"coauthors":[810],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThis Week in NCHC Hockey: St. Cloud State navigating pandemic, but 'it just seems like no matter what you do, you can\u2019t be perfect' - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We\u2019re not yet waking up to Sonny & Cher every morning, but college hockey teams might feel they\u2019re living out \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d with the COVID-19\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131437\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Week in NCHC Hockey: St. Cloud State navigating pandemic, but 'it just seems like no matter what you do, you can\u2019t be perfect' - College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We\u2019re not yet waking up to Sonny & Cher every morning, but college hockey teams might feel they\u2019re living out \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d with the COVID-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131437\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-13T16:00:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-13T06:25:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/scsu_goal.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1329\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"831\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Matthew Semisch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Matthew Semisch\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/\",\"name\":\"This Week in NCHC Hockey: St. Cloud State navigating pandemic, but 'it just seems like no matter what you do, you can\u2019t be perfect' - College Hockey | USCHO.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/scsu_goal.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-13T16:00:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-13T06:25:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/59bfc7fca1ba7bf3b039ebf2724060ae\"},\"description\":\"We\u2019re not yet waking up to Sonny & Cher every morning, but college hockey teams might feel they\u2019re living out \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d with the COVID-19\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/scsu_goal.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/scsu_goal.jpg\",\"width\":1329,\"height\":831,\"caption\":\"St. Cloud State players celebrate a recent Easton Brodzinski goal (photo: St. Cloud State Athletics).\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"This Week in NCHC Hockey: St. Cloud State navigating pandemic, but ‘it just seems like no matter what you do, you can\u2019t be perfect’\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/\",\"name\":\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\",\"description\":\"Men's and Women's D-I and D-III College Hockey News, Features, Scores, Statistics, Fan Forum, Blogs\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/59bfc7fca1ba7bf3b039ebf2724060ae\",\"name\":\"Matthew Semisch\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/800654cc217d997dd53c63231da54899\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1cf69ccdebc1e5f39c969dbc92873bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1cf69ccdebc1e5f39c969dbc92873bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Matthew Semisch\"},\"description\":\"NCHC Columnist Matthew Semisch joined USCHO in 2007 as a arena reporter covering Omaha. He later became a WCHA columnist for USCHO before taking a similar role covering the NCHC. He currently works as the sports editor at the Bottineau Courant in Bottineau, N.D.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/author\/msemisch\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: St. Cloud State navigating pandemic, but 'it just seems like no matter what you do, you can\u2019t be perfect' - College Hockey | USCHO.com","description":"We\u2019re not yet waking up to Sonny & Cher every morning, but college hockey teams might feel they\u2019re living out \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d with the COVID-19","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131437","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: St. Cloud State navigating pandemic, but 'it just seems like no matter what you do, you can\u2019t be perfect' - College Hockey | USCHO.com","og_description":"We\u2019re not yet waking up to Sonny & Cher every morning, but college hockey teams might feel they\u2019re living out \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d with the COVID-19","og_url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131437","og_site_name":"College Hockey | USCHO.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/","article_published_time":"2022-01-13T16:00:23+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-01-13T06:25:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1329,"height":831,"url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/scsu_goal.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Matthew Semisch","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@USCHO","twitter_site":"@USCHO","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Matthew Semisch","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/","name":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: St. Cloud State navigating pandemic, but 'it just seems like no matter what you do, you can\u2019t be perfect' - College Hockey | USCHO.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/scsu_goal.jpg","datePublished":"2022-01-13T16:00:23+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-13T06:25:42+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/59bfc7fca1ba7bf3b039ebf2724060ae"},"description":"We\u2019re not yet waking up to Sonny & Cher every morning, but college hockey teams might feel they\u2019re living out \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d with the COVID-19","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/scsu_goal.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/scsu_goal.jpg","width":1329,"height":831,"caption":"St. Cloud State players celebrate a recent Easton Brodzinski goal (photo: St. Cloud State Athletics)."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/13\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-st-cloud-state-navigating-pandemic-but-it-just-seems-like-no-matter-what-you-do-you-cant-be-perfect\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: St. Cloud State navigating pandemic, but ‘it just seems like no matter what you do, you can\u2019t be perfect’"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/","name":"College Hockey | USCHO.com","description":"Men's and Women's D-I and D-III College Hockey News, Features, Scores, Statistics, Fan Forum, Blogs","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/59bfc7fca1ba7bf3b039ebf2724060ae","name":"Matthew Semisch","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/800654cc217d997dd53c63231da54899","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1cf69ccdebc1e5f39c969dbc92873bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1cf69ccdebc1e5f39c969dbc92873bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Matthew Semisch"},"description":"NCHC Columnist Matthew Semisch joined USCHO in 2007 as a arena reporter covering Omaha. He later became a WCHA columnist for USCHO before taking a similar role covering the NCHC. He currently works as the sports editor at the Bottineau Courant in Bottineau, N.D.","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/author\/msemisch\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131437"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131449,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131437\/revisions\/131449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131437"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=131437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}