Meyer again to having enjoyable enjoying hockey at Ohio State

After having a bye within the first spherical of the Big Ten match, sixth-ranked Ohio State opens postseason play Sunday with a house sport towards Penn State within the league semifinals.
“I’m really excited,” Meyer stated. “The last two years, I’ve been planning my spring break right about now. The last couple of years, watching other teams in the tournament, I was kind of jealous and wanting a piece of that. Now I’m going to get a piece and I’m looking forward to it.”
Meyer has been a key piece of a Buckeye staff that has continued to construct on final season’s success beneath head coach Steve Rohlik. A season in the past, Ohio State gained its NCAA regional to advance to this system’s second-ever Frozen Four.
This 12 months, Ohio State was ranked No. 1 within the nation earlier than it performed a sport, and the Buckeyes have been within the prime 10 all season.
“The seniors in their senior speeches were talking about how they started off their freshman year 0-7, and now we’re doing this,” stated Meyer, who attended OSU video games and camps when he was rising up in central Ohio. “It’s crazy how far it’s come.”
The similar may very well be stated of Meyer’s improvement after he went by final 12 months’s tough marketing campaign. Clark stated when he sees the 21-year-old on the ice, he sees a participant who’s getting again to the energetic ahead who scored 32 objectives within the USHL three season in the past.
“He’s getting opportunities, he’s scoring goals, he’s getting assists, helping his teammates and all that stuff,” Clark stated. “He’s developed quite a bit from the beginning of the year until now heading into their playoff time.
“He skates nicely. I believe he thinks the sport fairly nicely. It’s one thing the place he would not have a ton of dimension, so a variety of what he does needs to be dogged. He’s going after pucks and getting beneath guys’ pores and skin at instances. He would not do it as a lot as I’d like him to, however I believe one in all his principal issues is getting again to that and actually being a dog-on-a-bone-type participant.”
One year after Meyer wasn’t sure where his hockey career was going, he’s back on the track he envisioned when he first was picked by the Blue Jackets two summers ago.
“It’s a fairly superior feeling as a result of the psychological side might be the toughest,” Meyer said. “I went by a variety of bodily fatigue and stuff, however mentally I did not know if I’d ever get again to play like I can once more. I really feel like I’ve gotten to that time and I’ve one other stage to get to.”