Penn State Sports Magazine
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4 0 M A Y 2 0 2 5 W W W . B L U E W H I T E O N L I N E . C O M A disappointed group of Nittany Lions shuffled into the interview room at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis following a 3-1 loss to Boston University on April 10 in the Frozen Four semifinals. Penn State had cut a two-goal deficit in half when freshman forward Nicholas DeGraves scored off a rebound early in the third period, but that was as close as the Lions would get. They couldn't pro- duce the equalizer, and their improbable national championship bid all but ended when the Terriers tacked on an empty- net goal with 59 seconds left. Throughout the postseason, PSU had kept the faith. It had believed in mira- cles. But those kinds of moments can't be summoned on command, and in their first-ever Frozen Four appearance, the Lions came up a few miracles short. "We didn't play our best," coach Guy Gadowsky conceded. "We had a couple of breakaways, a couple of two-on-ones, and we just didn't finish. Sometimes you don't have your 'A' game. We certainly got momentum later, but when we had chances, big chances … we just didn't finish." Maybe not, but even amid the gloom of a season-ending loss, Penn State's play- ers and coaches exuded both a sense of accomplishment for the campaign that OLYMPIC SPORTS THE BIG CHILL Penn State makes history with its first ever Frozen Four appearance M AT T H E R B | M AT T. H E R B @ O N 3 . C O M Freshman forward Nicholas DeGraves scored early in the third period, but Boston University held on for a 3-1 victory over the Nittany Lions in the NCAA Tournament semifinals. PHOTO BY MARK SELDERS/PENN STATE ATHLETICS