Penn State Announces Hockey Schedule

The Penn State Nittany Lions have released their 1919-20 men’s hockey schedule. The campaign begins with an exhibition game against the University of Ottawa on Sunday, October 6 at Pegula Ice Arena before the 34-game regular season gets underway the following Friday, October 11 against Sacred Heart in the opener of a two-game series.

The Big Ten season gets underway November 1 and 2 when Penn State hosts Wisconsin.

Game times have yet to be announced.

The best-of-three Big Ten tournament quarterfinals are set for March 6-8 at campus sites with the one-game semifinals scheduled for March 14 and the conference championship game for March 21, again on campus sites.

Penn State finished 22-15-2 a year ago and reached the Big Ten championship game before falling to Notre Dame.

The Nittany Lions led in scoring at 4.54 goals per game.

This season marks the eighth for Penn State as a Division I hockey program and its seventh as a member of the Big Ten. Head coach Guy Gadowsky is starting his 20th season as a collegiate head coach. He has an overall record of 298-308-56 and 1125-110-19 during his time at Penn State.