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Penn State hockey losing assistant to UMass

Matt Lindsay was an assistant coach under Guy Gadowsky for 10 years and is leaving Penn State to go home to UMass.

No sport is without its fair share of coaching staff turnover, including college hockey. And while this past hockey season may not have been up to par for Penn State, one assistant is ready to take everything he has learned with the program and take that with him to a new location.

It was reported on Thursday that assistant coach Matt Lindsay is leaving Penn State for a chance to join the UMass program.

 

 

Lindsay was an assistant at Penn State for 10 years under coach Guy Gadowsky. During that time, Penn State won the Big Ten championship in 2017 and the Big Ten Regular Season in 2019-20. A shot at a conference tournament championship was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic that swept across with shutdowns across the sports world.

Matt Lindsay released a statement to the Penn State fans to express his gratitude for the time in Happy Valley, or rather Hockey Valley.

Head Coach Guy Gadowsky would say the following about Matt Lindsay
“On behalf of everyone involved with the hockey program here at Penn State we wish the absolute best to Matt, his wife CC and their daughter Josephine and are excited to watch his continued growth as a hockey coach during this next step in his career.”

Now the question is who will fill Matt Lindsay’s spot on the bench with Guy Gadowsky.

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Guy Gadowsky takes blame for down year for Penn State hockey

Penn State men’s hockey coach Guy Gadowsky says the players did their part, but he may have let them down in the 2020-21 season.

Penn State hockey coach Guy Gadowsky would like another stab at the 2020-21 season. In a postseason conference call with the media on Monday, Gadowsky reflected on the past season, which saw Penn State fail to qualify for the NCAA tournament and to play for the Big Ten championship.

Gadowsky praised his players for the way they handled their approach to the season, which was one of many affected by the ongoing pandemic. Knowing how good a team he had last season (No. 1 seed in the Big Ten hockey tournament before it was shut down with the rest of the sports world a year ago, thus eliminating a likely shot at playing in the NCAA tournament), Gadowsky said he struggled to have his team ready to get back into the swing of things on the ice this past hockey season.

“I think the guys did a good job of handling it. I’m disappointed in how I handled things.,” Gadowsky said when asked how his program handled the way the team handled the approach to the season.

“I don’t think I had the team prepared to play at the start on the ice the way you have to at this level. I don’t think I was innovative enough to protect the off-ice culture that’s been built up for a lot of years.”

The Nittany Lions opened the season 0-5 (sound familiar?) and did not get their first win of the season until December 6 when they took down Michigan. One of the reasons why they got off to the slow start was the amount of time the coaches were able to have on the ice as they had to follow the protocols that were set by the Big Ten Conference, Penn State, and the state of Pennsylvania.

The Nittany Lions also had eight games canceled due to COVID-19 protocols. They also had to put the program on pause due to positive COVID-19 results among Penn State’s Tier 1 personnel.

Penn State reached the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament with a first-round victory over Notre Dame, but the Nittany Lions were eliminated by Wisconsin.

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Penn State Hockey gets two senior players back for 2021-22 season

The Penn State hockey program announced the returns of seniors Clayton Phillips and Adam Pilewicz for next season.

As the NCAA Men’s Hockey season will come to an end next week in Pittsburgh for the Frozen Four, some of the junior and senior players will have some big decisions on their hands.

On Friday, Penn State Men’s Hockey announced senior players Clayton Phillips and Adam Pilewicz will take advantage of the extra year of eligibility that the NCAA granted to fall and winter sports as they will be back with the Nittany Lions for the 2021-22 season.

Phillips scored three goals and four assists for seven points during the 2020-21 season.

 

During the 2020-21 season, Pilewicz had a season-high 6 shots on goal in their loss to Notre Dame on March 5.

The Penn State Men’s Hockey season came to end in their semifinals loss to Wisconsin in the Big Ten Tournament.

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