watched Poehling, good game by him tonight. 2 goals, one was a empty netter. He had another new line, as last game he was with his brothers but that was ugly as it was likely his worst game of the season. They are more hard working grinders, Ryan needs to be with the skilled players. Tonight he was back with his usual LW, Robby Jackson who he's almost always with but he was out last game, and on RW he had a brand new linemate in the Freshman Nolan Walker who's gotten off to a good start after spending his time as the 4th line center.
It wasn't a pretty night for SCSU, they were down what should of been 3-1 as CC missed a wide open net early on and that would come back to bite them. In the 3rd SCSU tied it up and CC came back and SCSU tied it up again only to have Poehling seal the deal with the empty netter. While Poehling usually is more often to pass, tonight he was shooting more as in addition to the 2 goals, he had a nice move where he brought the puck out of the corner and made a power move to the net but couldn't tuck it in. Later on during a PP he had a nice wrist shot from the point (he plays the point on the PP).
One thing I've now noticed, this is a brand new coach, he was an assistant at UMD that just won the National Championship last year. I thought he was given Poehling some rest not over using him as their schedule was really light to start until last weekend but that first game was a blowout against BC and vs Northeastern it was an all Poehling line and they did not play that well so I thought maybe he didn't play him much was for that reason. But tonight when they were down most of the night, he still rolled 4 lines and didn't look to double shift Poehling. Now SCSU's main weapon is their impressive scoring depth, just that I thought he would have Poehling playing more but looks like he's going to just steady roll 4 lines with equal playing time as this was a big conference game on the road and SCSU was not looking too sharp until the 3rd imo.