After having a bye in the first round of the Big Ten tournament, sixth-ranked Ohio State opens postseason play Sunday with a home game against Penn State in the league semifinals.
"I'm really excited," Meyer said. "The last two years, I've been planning my spring break right about now. The last couple of years, watching other teams in the tournament, I was kind of jealous and wanting a piece of that. Now I'm going to get a piece and I'm looking forward to it."
Meyer has been a key piece of a Buckeye team that has continued to build on last season's success under head coach Steve Rohlik. A season ago, Ohio State won its NCAA regional to advance to the program's second-ever Frozen Four.
This year, Ohio State was ranked No. 1 in the country before it played a game, and the Buckeyes have been in the top 10 all season.
"The seniors in their senior speeches were talking about how they started off their freshman year 0-7, and now we're doing this," said Meyer, who attended OSU games and camps when he was growing up in central Ohio. "It's crazy how far it's come."
The same could be said of Meyer's development after he went through last year's difficult campaign. Clark said when he sees the 21-year-old on the ice, he sees a player who is getting back to the energetic forward who scored 32 goals in the USHL three season ago.
"He's getting opportunities, he's scoring goals, he's getting assists, helping his teammates and all that stuff," Clark said. "He's developed quite a bit from the beginning of the year until now heading into their playoff time.
"He skates well. I think he thinks the game pretty well. It's something where he doesn't have a ton of size, so a lot of what he does has to be dogged. He's going after pucks and getting under guys' skin at times. He doesn't do it as much as I'd like him to, but I think one of his main things is getting back to that and really being a dog-on-a-bone-type player."
One year after Meyer wasn't sure where his hockey career was going, he's back on the track he envisioned when he first was picked by the Blue Jackets two summers ago.
"It's a pretty awesome feeling because the mental aspect is probably the hardest," Meyer said. "I went through a lot of physical fatigue and stuff, but mentally I didn't know if I'd ever get back to play like I can again. I feel like I've gotten to that point and I have another level to get to."