On Friday night, Michigan State hockey needed some extra time to beat the No. 3 Penn State Nittany Lions. Tiernan Shoudy was the one to drive the nail in the coffin, taking the extra Tommi Mannisto pass and burying it past PSU goaltender Kevin Reidler.<\/p>\n
The senior played a gritty game, heading to the locker room in the middle of the first period following a hit that sent him crashing to the boards. When asked about the injury, Shoudy shrugged it off, admitting he was scared the injury was worse than what it was.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just got like tripped up a little bit, lost my footing, then I went to the boards a little weird, feet-first,\u201d the senior said. \u201cAt first, I thought it might have been worse than it was, but it was okay, so.\u201d<\/p>\n
The forward was undaunted and determined to make him impact on the game, and the fourth line center came up strong in the biggest moment of the early season for the Spartans. He walked through the series leading to his walk-off winner, with fellow gritty fourth line forward Tommi Mannisto being the wingman. Shoudy did reveal he took an extra second with the shot, and no one can argue the results.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was funny, like the two-on-one, Tommi (Mannisto) had a one-timer, goalie made a great save, then I thought I had a wide open net, somehow missed it backhand,\u201d Shoudy lamented. \u201cThen, three minutes to play, got it back in the zone, tried to got to the middle, didn\u2019t work out, and then Tommi had great poise, came around the net, I thought I was open right away, but yeah, he had great poise, made a great play, then I was kinda the back door. I took my time a little bit, I feel like everyone was probably a little scared there, but got it, so I was happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Outside of what was seen on the ice, Shoudy revealed what was going through his head at the time. For the senior, after his game-winner went in, it was not thoughts of glory at his time to shine. Instead, he was just tired and glad the game ended.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable, honestly,\u201d Shoudy started. \u201cAt the time though, I was just so tired since it was just kind of a long shift, so I was just like \u2018gosh, at least I get to get off.\u2019 But it was unbelievable and the guys are great, obviously just like we\u2019re all super happy to beat those guys, it\u2019s a huge matchup, and we are looking to close it out tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
The crowd noise, however, did strike the senior. Even in his 120th<\/sup> game in a Spartan uniform, the Munn Ice Arena atmosphere still stands out to him. It sticks with him, and the senior loves it. This moment was his to enjoy, and the crowd helped add their own touch to it.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable (playing at Munn). Honestly, it was so loud I couldn\u2019t really figure out what was going on when I scored,\u201d the veteran revealed. \u201cBut I think like every game the fans come out and they\u2019re great, especially the Munnsters and the band. That just never gets old, especially being a senior, like it never really gets old and it\u2019s unbelievable playing in front of the Munn crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n The Spartans are immediately back at work, taking on the Nittany Lions again tomorrow at 4 p.m. EST. This is a bit different than the usual time, as traditional weekend games are in the 7 p.m. EST and\/or 7:30 p.m. EST slot both nights. However, with Michigan State basketball having their own premier matchup with No. 14 Arkansas at 7 p.m. EST, MSU Athletics moved hockey forward for fans to enjoy both.<\/p>\n For Shoudy, it is an added bonus. He stated that normally, he\u2019s rearing to go play early in the afternoon. The quick turnaround will not distract or hamper Adam Nightingale\u2019s Spartans. Especially after the bye weekend last week, Michigan State hockey is ready to go at any time, with any team, in any place.<\/p>\n \u201cIt does not really mess with the routine a ton, we kinda knew it would be 4:00 no matter what time it ended, win or lose, emotional game, or whatever,\u201d Shoudy confirmed. \u201cWe knew it would be a 4:00 game. We\u2019re ready for that, so I think it just pushes things up a little bit. Nothing crazy. Honestly, it is kinda nice because you don\u2019t have to wait around all day, get a routine in the morning and then you\u2019re just ready to go for like 1:00 or 2:00. So it\u2019s just kinda fun playing quick turnaround games like that, especially when we had an off weekend. We\u2019re all just wanting to play games, so it\u2019s kinda fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Friday night, Michigan State hockey needed some extra time to beat the No. 3 Penn State Nittany Lions. Tiernan Shoudy was the one to drive the nail in the coffin, taking the extra Tommi Mannisto pass and burying it past PSU goaltender Kevin Reidler. The senior played a gritty game, heading to the locker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59,234,189,515,504,943],"class_list":["post-22411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-sports","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-hockey","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-msu-hockey","tag-news","tag-tiernan-shoudy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Michigan State hockey has a short turnaround, Shoudy is undaunted<\/h3>\n