{"id":124561,"date":"2020-12-24T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?p=124561"},"modified":"2020-12-23T20:22:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T02:22:23","slug":"this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: Nebraska product, Western Michigan senior Frank takes in pod on native turf"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Nebraska native and Western Michigan senior Ethen Frank was on familiar ice24 the past three weeks in Omaha (photo: Ashley Huss).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The city of Ethen Frank\u2019s birth and the metro area in which he spent much of his youth both have NCHC teams, but the Western Michigan senior forward plays for neither of them.<\/p>\n

More and more, Denver and Omaha\u2019s loss has been the Broncos\u2019 gain.<\/p>\n

Frank just finished a nearly month-long stay between Omaha, Neb., and his hometown of nearby Papillion, Neb., the cities being separated by little more than a county line. He played in nine of WMU\u2019s 10 games in the NCHC pod at Omaha\u2019s Baxter Arena, and he headed back to Kalamazoo, Mich., on Wednesday after celebrating Christmas early with his family.<\/p>\n

Some of the Broncos flew home out of Omaha last Sunday, the day after WMU finished its time in the NCHC pod by skating to a 3-3 tie with Denver. All Frank had to do was tell the Broncos\u2019 staff that his parents would be picking him up from the team\u2019s hotel.<\/p>\n

Finally, Frank got to actually visit in person with his parents, who moved with him from Denver to Papillion when he was in the middle of elementary school. At the time, his parents had taken an opportunity to operate a local roller rink, which they still own.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a normal season, with fans and stuff before COVID, we\u2019d meet our parents in the loading dock by our bus, but they weren\u2019t really allowed to come see me during the pod,\u201d Frank said. \u201cThat sucked, but you just call and text as much as you can to stay updated with each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all understood that I was there for hockey and not there to see my parents, but I knew I\u2019d see them after the pod was over, and they got how serious it was and that I needed to worry about hockey when we were playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

At least in terms of his own game, that worked out well. WMU (2-6-2) started on the back foot when the Broncos lost their No. 1 goaltender to a long-term injury in the team\u2019s season opener Dec. 1 against St. Cloud State, but Frank is the team\u2019s leading scorer with six goals on 22 shots. Three of his goals came on power plays, and he also set up teammates with two assists.<\/p>\n

He missed WMU\u2019s pod finale Saturday with an injury, but Broncos coach Andy Murray noted after the game that it was only decided that afternoon that Frank would sit out. He is expected to be back in practice when the Broncos reconvene this Sunday, Dec. 27.<\/p>\n

WMU had taken two buses and a trailer to Omaha for the NCHC pod, and the Broncos aren\u2019t expected to fly for any road games this season amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Frank brought two duffel bags, two backpacks and four smaller bags with snacks and other goodies. He also packed enough clothes for three weeks, a water filter and his Xbox video game console, which turned out to be a common way that players kept in touch with each other at their hotel despite not having any roommates, which they normally would on road trips.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to make the hotel room feel like home,\u201d Frank said. \u201cYou\u2019re there for so long, and I didn\u2019t want it to feel like a boring hotel room, so I brought things I had in my room. I was starting to plan it out two or three weeks before we left, and we\u2019d ask around about what guys were bringing, and just get ideas on how much to bring. A four or five-day road trip isn\u2019t the same as three weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for returning to Baxter Arena, a venue Frank had scored at twice in a February 2019 game, he felt that measures were taken to make the arena feel like as much of a neutral site as it could be.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to approach them like they could be played anywhere,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to prepare like it\u2019s any other game, and not really worry about the pod or the situation you\u2019re in, because when you have a game in front of you, you can\u2019t really take your mind off of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had six or seven locker rooms that teams rotated through, and after games you\u2019d move to a new locker room, and the teams that were playing had the two main locker rooms. We were in the UNO room once, which was kind of weird, but they treated it as a neutral site, and at times it did feel like we were on the road or at home because of the pregame songs they\u2019d play, and a hype-up video with starting lineups.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a way, playing in the pod was a matter of what could\u2019ve been for Frank. He played for a AAA youth hockey team in Omaha before joining the USHL\u2019s Lincoln Stars. He committed to WMU at 16, but he had previously been looking at UNO in a time before the Mavericks\u2019 current coaching staff took the reins.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a few phone calls with (UNO), and we were kind of getting close to setting up a visit, and I didn\u2019t really have an advisor at the time, but my coach was talking with them and then telling me what they were saying, and said they would call and set up a visit,\u201d Frank said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat kind of fell through, but Western offered me, and they\u2019re in the same conference. I thought it\u2019d be kind of cool since I played in Lincoln, playing against Omaha, and being from there, just being the bad guy. A lot of people in Omaha and people on social media set me out to be the bad guy, but it wasn\u2019t really my fault that UNO didn\u2019t call me back.\u201d<\/p>\n

WMU\u2019s 6-5 loss to Omaha on Dec. 18 was Frank\u2019s last scheduled game at Baxter, and he scored a second-period goal that put the Broncos ahead 4-2.<\/p>\n

Whether he plays there again or not, he is excited about what the rest of the season holds.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsistency is what I\u2019ve talked with my teammates and some other people about, and I just want to play consistently and hard every day and not worry about points,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you play hard and play the right away, things will take care of themselves, and you can\u2019t really focus on the outside. You just focus on the next shift and not worry about the past. You\u2019re just focused on what\u2019s ahead of you and playing hard, no matter what the score is or how much time is left.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a weird month, though, in a year like none other. Some things haven\u2019t changed \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s been three or four years in a row now where I haven\u2019t been home on Christmas,\u201d Frank said \u2014 but the NCHC pod experience was something Frank won\u2019t soon forget. Indeed, depending on how the pandemic shakes out in the coming months, it\u2019s not beyond the realm of possibility that Omaha\u2019s was the last pod he would ever play in.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just looked at it as that we were very fortunate to be there, because we were seeing other hockey teams that were canceling their seasons and weren\u2019t able to play,\u201d Frank said. \u201cWe saw the pod as a good opportunity, and we were just happy to be on the ice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were really positive about the whole thing, and the NCHC was able to put something together to get the first half of the season in, and we were happy about that. We heard a couple rumors that there could be a bubble for the playoffs or something like that, and some guys are excited and some guys kind of get worn out by the three weeks in the hotel and the same food every day, but you\u2019ve got to not worry about that because you\u2019re there for the hockey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fenton: No active infection believed to take place across pod\u2019s Tier 1 personnel<\/h4>\n

NCHC commissioner Josh Fenton told reporters during a socially-distanced press conference Tuesday that the conference believes it had zero active COVID-19 infections across all Tier 1 personnel for the entire duration of the NCHC pod in Omaha.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we\u2019re all said and done here, because the numbers may not be exact, we\u2019ll have run almost 3,000 tests over the past three weeks,\u201d Fenton said. \u201cThat\u2019s a combination of PCR (molecular diagnostic) tests, plus a rapid antigen test, and we went through some challenging times initially when we cleared everybody on the initial arrival test.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guidance from the doctors (was that) it was best to test everybody, regardless of whether you were a previous positive or not, because they have seen cases of reinfection, although rare. What we found was a little bit what we expected, maybe not to the level, that some did test positive, but we had a protocol in place to address positive tests and prior positives, and that was looking things like CT values and antibody levels, or testing positive for antibodies, whether it be here in the pod or maybe documentation of positive antibody testing prior to coming to the pod.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tier 1 personnel were required to take a PCR test every Monday during the pod, as well as rapid-response antigen tests three to four times per week. These personnel included players, coaches, team support staff, officials, conference staff, additional medical support and select Baxter Arena staff.<\/p>\n

Colorado College started late at the pod due to a Tigers player testing positive prior to the event. That meant that the entire CC team quarantined for two weeks before beginning its season at Baxter Arena. The Tigers opened Dec. 8 with a shootout win over Western Michigan, but CC is officially 2-4-2 at the winter break.<\/p>\n

The NCHC had originally planned to play 40 games but crossed two off. Still, once action got underway, all 38 games were played without any cancellations. Fenton puts that success down to stringent health and safety guidelines that the conference adhered to.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew it was a significant schedule and the effort was going to have to be there to get through it,\u201d Fenton said Tuesday when asked if he believed, going into the pod, that the league would get all 38 games in without interruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what we thought we should expect from potential disruptions relating to testing, but we believed in the protocol, we believed in the plan, so I guess the answer to the question is yes, we did believe that we could get through it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would\u2019ve played 40 hockey games over the past three weeks, and it was an accomplishment in and of itself to do 38, so the protocol is what had me believing coming into it that we could execute and get it done,\u201d Fenton said. \u201cThere were certainly some unknowns that came up, and we had to work through some of those things…but we believed in the protocol, and I think the protocol showed that it can work.\u201d<\/p>\n

NCHC action resumes in Dec. 31 back in Omaha, when North Dakota visits UNO for a Thursday-Friday series. Fans will be limited to 1,500 spectators, socially distanced, and season ticket holders get first dibs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The city of Ethen Frank\u2019s birth and the metro area in which he spent much of his youth both have NCHC teams, but the Western Michigan senior forward plays for neither of them. More and more, Denver and Omaha\u2019s loss has been the Broncos\u2019 gain. Frank just finished a nearly month-long stay between Omaha, Neb., […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":124562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,1,7],"tags":[812],"coauthors":[810],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThis Week in NCHC Hockey: Nebraska product, Western Michigan senior Frank takes in pod on native turf - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The city of Ethen Frank\u2019s birth and the metro area in which he spent much of his youth both have NCHC teams, but the Western Michigan senior forward plays\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124561\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Week in NCHC Hockey: Nebraska product, Western Michigan senior Frank takes in pod on native turf - College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The city of Ethen Frank\u2019s birth and the metro area in which he spent much of his youth both have NCHC teams, but the Western Michigan senior forward plays\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124561\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-24T16:00:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-12-24T02:22:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ethen_frank.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1454\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"801\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Matthew Semisch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Matthew Semisch\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"10 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/\",\"name\":\"This Week in NCHC Hockey: Nebraska product, Western Michigan senior Frank takes in pod on native turf - College Hockey | USCHO.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ethen_frank.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-24T16:00:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-12-24T02:22:23+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/59bfc7fca1ba7bf3b039ebf2724060ae\"},\"description\":\"The city of Ethen Frank\u2019s birth and the metro area in which he spent much of his youth both have NCHC teams, but the Western Michigan senior forward plays\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ethen_frank.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ethen_frank.jpg\",\"width\":1454,\"height\":801,\"caption\":\"Western Michigan senior Ethen Frank is back for a fifth season with the Broncos and face top-ranked Michigan this weekend (photo: Ashley Huss).\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"This Week in NCHC Hockey: Nebraska product, Western Michigan senior Frank takes in pod on native turf\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/\",\"name\":\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\",\"description\":\"Men's and Women's D-I and D-III College Hockey News, Features, Scores, Statistics, Fan Forum, Blogs\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/59bfc7fca1ba7bf3b039ebf2724060ae\",\"name\":\"Matthew Semisch\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/800654cc217d997dd53c63231da54899\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1cf69ccdebc1e5f39c969dbc92873bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1cf69ccdebc1e5f39c969dbc92873bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Matthew Semisch\"},\"description\":\"NCHC Columnist Matthew Semisch joined USCHO in 2007 as a arena reporter covering Omaha. He later became a WCHA columnist for USCHO before taking a similar role covering the NCHC. He currently works as the sports editor at the Bottineau Courant in Bottineau, N.D.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/author\/msemisch\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: Nebraska product, Western Michigan senior Frank takes in pod on native turf - College Hockey | USCHO.com","description":"The city of Ethen Frank\u2019s birth and the metro area in which he spent much of his youth both have NCHC teams, but the Western Michigan senior forward plays","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124561","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: Nebraska product, Western Michigan senior Frank takes in pod on native turf - College Hockey | USCHO.com","og_description":"The city of Ethen Frank\u2019s birth and the metro area in which he spent much of his youth both have NCHC teams, but the Western Michigan senior forward plays","og_url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124561","og_site_name":"College Hockey | USCHO.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/","article_published_time":"2020-12-24T16:00:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-12-24T02:22:23+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1454,"height":801,"url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ethen_frank.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Matthew Semisch","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@USCHO","twitter_site":"@USCHO","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Matthew Semisch","Est. reading time":"10 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/","name":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: Nebraska product, Western Michigan senior Frank takes in pod on native turf - College Hockey | USCHO.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ethen_frank.jpg","datePublished":"2020-12-24T16:00:37+00:00","dateModified":"2020-12-24T02:22:23+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/59bfc7fca1ba7bf3b039ebf2724060ae"},"description":"The city of Ethen Frank\u2019s birth and the metro area in which he spent much of his youth both have NCHC teams, but the Western Michigan senior forward plays","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ethen_frank.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ethen_frank.jpg","width":1454,"height":801,"caption":"Western Michigan senior Ethen Frank is back for a fifth season with the Broncos and face top-ranked Michigan this weekend (photo: Ashley Huss)."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-week-in-nchc-hockey-nebraska-product-western-michigan-senior-frank-takes-in-pod-on-native-turf\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"This Week in NCHC Hockey: Nebraska product, Western Michigan senior Frank takes in pod on native turf"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/","name":"College Hockey | USCHO.com","description":"Men's and Women's D-I and D-III College Hockey News, Features, Scores, Statistics, Fan Forum, Blogs","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/59bfc7fca1ba7bf3b039ebf2724060ae","name":"Matthew Semisch","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/800654cc217d997dd53c63231da54899","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1cf69ccdebc1e5f39c969dbc92873bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1cf69ccdebc1e5f39c969dbc92873bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Matthew Semisch"},"description":"NCHC Columnist Matthew Semisch joined USCHO in 2007 as a arena reporter covering Omaha. He later became a WCHA columnist for USCHO before taking a similar role covering the NCHC. He currently works as the sports editor at the Bottineau Courant in Bottineau, N.D.","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/author\/msemisch\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124561"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124567,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124561\/revisions\/124567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124561"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=124561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}