The one thing they haven’t done much of in the past four weeks is play any actual hockey games. By winning the Big Ten — the program’s first regular season conference title since before Watergate — the Buckeyes (20-10-5) got a bye in the opening round of the league playoffs. They lost their Big Ten semifinal versus Penn State on St. Patrick’s Day. That means when the puck drops on Friday afternoon in Fargo, they’ll have played exactly one hockey game in the last 27 days. “Every time you think you know everything and have been through everything, then you go through something like this,” Buckeyes coach Steve Rohlik said on Thursday after the team practiced in Fargo. “You’ve always got to stay on your toes. I think it’s been really good for our guys over the last couple weeks, our focus, our reset.” If they want to return to…
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