{"id":131229,"date":"2022-01-05T20:28:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T02:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?p=131229"},"modified":"2022-01-05T20:28:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T02:28:25","slug":"ohio-states-steve-rohlik-talks-this-seasons-buckeyes-big-ten-parity-uscho-spotlight-college-hockey-podcast-season-4-episode-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2022\/01\/05\/ohio-states-steve-rohlik-talks-this-seasons-buckeyes-big-ten-parity-uscho-spotlight-college-hockey-podcast-season-4-episode-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State&#8217;s Steve Rohlik talks this season&#8217;s Buckeyes, Big Ten parity: USCHO Spotlight college hockey podcast Season 4 Episode 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hosts Jim Connelly and Ed Trefzger are joined by Ohio State head coach Steve Rohlik. The conversation includes this year&#8217;s Buckeyes, high points of the season, the Big Ten&#8217;s competitiveness, the transfer portal, and dealing with a COVID schedule change this weekend. (Note: since the time this podcast was recorded, the games this weekend with Wisconsin have been rescheduled.)<\/p>\n<p>This podcast is sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/dcu.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DCU \u2013 Digital Federal Credit Union \u2013 at dcu.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to this podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/uscho-spotlight\/id1437717447?mt=2\">on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/3185680\/episodes\/feed\">your favorite podcast app<\/a>, or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/user\/uscholive\">Spreaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=48184420&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>About the hosts<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Jim Connelly<\/strong> is a senior writer at USCHO.com and has been with the site since 1999. 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