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.
Rick has worked in print and broadcast journalism for more than 35 years. He's covered golf in one medium or another for more than 30. He is the co-author of the book So You Want to Play Golf with PGA professional Kim Verrecchio and the host of the Women's Golf Report podcast.
Most recently, Rick served as an associate editor for The Mulligan Magazine. He also served as an associate editor for Philadelphia Golf Magazine and New Jersey State Golf from 2004-07.
Rick covered his first LPGA Tour event in 1986 and continues to cover women's golf for various media outlets. High on his bucket list is having the opportunity to one day play in an LPGA Tour pro am.
Rick is also a longtime correspondent for two suburban Philadelphia daily newspapers, the Intelligencer and the Bucks County Courier Times in Doylestown, PA. Over the course of his career he has coverzed a wide variety of sporting events.
He is also a veteran play by play and public address announcer, and handles the PA mic for the nationally ranked Delaware Valley University football program.
Rick is also a longtime contributor to Referee, a magazine devoted to sports officiating. He called his first baseball game at age 13 and continues to umpire softball and baseball today.
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