Ever since returning from the world juniors, Gavin McKenna has been fire on ice. <\/p>\n
The 18-year-old from No. 8 Penn State scored the tying goal and recorded a hat trick in Friday night’s 7-2 win over No. 5 Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
But those were just the latest points in a tear that began when he returned to NCAA play. The top prospect has netted five goals and nine points in his last five games. <\/p>\n
However, the star forward wasn’t the only Penn State scorer wreaking havoc in Friday’s game. Dane Dowiak also had three goals as the pair became the first-ever Penn State teammates to combine for a multiple hat trick game.<\/p>\n
McKenna tied the game with a sweet five-on-three move before Dowiak added the go-ahead goal to seal the deal. After going down 2-0 early, Penn State recovered with seven unanswered goals.<\/p>\n
McKenna finished the world juniors second in scoring with 14 points, and prior to the tournament, he netted four goals and 14 assists in 16 games with Penn State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever since returning from the world juniors, Gavin McKenna has been fire on ice. The 18-year-old from No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-430164","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\/430164","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=430164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}