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St. Cloud State has reached its second Frozen Four and, not surprisingly, there’s a lot of lingo that this team uses day after day (Photo: Justin K. Aller\/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Close, kill and collect.<\/p>\n

Next-guy-up mentality.<\/p>\n

No-days-off mentality.<\/p>\n

Husky Hockey.<\/p>\n

All teams develop phrases and jargon that help unify concepts \u2013 and locker rooms \u2013 but St. Cloud State elevates this to an artform this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talk about Husky Hockey, just our identity,\u201d said forward Nolan Walker. \u201cI think we\u2019re a very deep group from top to bottom. We like to play in the offensive zone, obviously, but we talk a lot about close, kill and collect. That\u2019s kind of our mentality. We like to go from the back out and I think we defend really hard. I think we\u2019ve been really successful when we\u2019ve been doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Junior Micah Miller echoed his linemate and clarified that the team\u2019s vocabulary is just as much about showing the world that the 2019-20 season was an anomaly as it is about defining this year\u2019s campaign. Last year, St. Cloud State\u2019s season ended with two losses to Minnesota-Duluth in the NCHC playoffs, a week before the rest of the season ended because of COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, for sure,\u201d said Miller. \u201cI feel like we\u2019ve gotten so close with this group with the shortened season last year and getting to know the transfer and freshmen this year, and we had such a tight group. It\u2019s just been a no-days-off mentality. Every practice is intense and every guy\u2019s bringing it every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walker and Miller had played the season with Easton Brodzinski, who suffered a broken femur in St. Cloud\u2019s 4-1 win over Boston College in the Albany Regional title game. \u00a0Brodzinski led the Huskies with 13 goals, and as much as the team will miss him in Pittsburgh, both Walker and Miller say it\u2019s time for the next guy to step up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a next-guy-up mentality,\u201d said Walker. \u201cObviously, it hurts that he\u2019s out, but Kyler Kupka is going to play with me and Micah and we\u2019ve had some good chemistry so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLike Walks said, we have such a deep team that it\u2019s just kind of a next-guy-up mentality,\u201d said Miller. \u201cObviously it sucks to have Brodzy go down like that and that\u2019s how the whole team feels, but we\u2019re kind of motivated to do it for him a little bit and just keep rolling here.\u201d<\/p>\n

That sophomore Kyler Kupka is, indeed, the next guy up was news at the team\u2019s press conference during Wednesday\u2019s practice day. \u00a0\u201cThe guys really hid the game plan well,\u201d joked coach Brett Larson.<\/p>\n

Larson acknowledged that the concepts that define Husky Hockey aren\u2019t exactly new.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s everybody on the same page, everybody playing together,\u201d said Larson. \u201cSome of it may sound clich\u00e9, but there are things that we\u2019ve come up with throughout the year that this team has really grown to believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Things like offense, as evidenced by St. Cloud\u2019s 10-goal output in the Albany Regional.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re good when we\u2019re on the attack,\u201d said Larson. \u201cWhen we\u2019re on a five-man attack, playing north, playing north through the neutral zone, a strong forecheck, not giving up the puck once we get it, doing what we call the body-blow theory, trying to set the next line up for success.\u201d<\/p>\n

The body-blow theory. That\u2019s one that Miller and Walker didn\u2019t mention.<\/p>\n

Larson had more on this. \u201cStrong over pucks. Not throw it away. Obviously starts with defending in our end first and defending the right way to put our team on the offense instead of spending too much time in our end.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than anything, says Larson, Husky Hockey \u201cis a team concept.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery guy knows that there\u2019s no individual bigger than the team,\u201d says Larson. \u201cThey all know that they have to bring what they can, and they know what their role is and they believe in it. I think Husky Hockey to those guys is that when they\u2019re all playing hard, they\u2019re playing free, and they\u2019re getting after it together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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