He heard it from the student section as he skated to the penalty box at 4:05 of the third period with the Nittany Lions trailing 2-0. Forward Nicholas Chin-DeGraves bailed him out by scoring a short-handed goal at 5:29 to cut the deficit to 2-1.<\/p>\n
\u201cI let my emotions get to me on that penalty,\u201d McKenna said. \u201cObviously, you don\u2019t want to take that penalty, but we scored on it. Shout out to \u2018Graves.\u2019 And, yeah, I think I\u2019ve learned to deal with it. It\u2019s going to be something I\u2019ve got to learn all year, to just stay calm and not let it get to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gadowsky was not worried about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is why he came here, to get bigger, stronger,\u201d Gadowsky said. \u201cBut give him some time. I\u2019ll tell you what; I thought his play without the puck was really, really good all weekend. Like, I underestimated how good he was with that, so he\u2019s coming. And trust me, he\u2019s getting bigger and stronger every week. Give him a couple months.\u201d<\/p>\n
Forward JJ Wiebusch tied it 2-2 at 8:30 of the third, and when the Nittany Lions got a power play late in the period, it became a made-for-NHL Network moment. Defenseman Mac Gadowsky, the coach\u2019s son, sent a pass from left to right for McKenna.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreat pass by Mac cross ice, and boy, did he \u2026\u201d the coach said, his voice trailing off for a moment. \u201cOh, my God, did he label that.\u201d<\/p>\n
McKenna made no mistake.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, it was a big power play,\u201d McKenna said. \u201cI saw Mac. He was looking to hit me, and he hit the seam. I shot it, tried to pick my spot and saw it was in the back of the net.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He heard it from the student section as he skated to the penalty box at 4:05 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-191002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}