Dec. 9, 2014
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -
P enn State men's hockey junior forward David Glen (Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta) was named Big Ten Third Star of the Week on Tuesday morning. The weekly award is Glen's first of his career.
Glen recorded a three-point weekend with a goal and two assists in Penn State's road sweep of Wisconsin. Glen returned from a six-game layoff to score the opening goal in Friday's 5-2 win, adding an assist later in the game.
On Saturday, the alternate captain added an assist in the 4-2 Penn State victory, which cemented the program's first Big Ten sweep. Glen has tallied six points in his last eight games played this season. Penn State sits in first place with nine points from four games in the Big Ten Conference.
Glen represents Penn State's fifth Big Ten weekly honor this season following in the footsteps of Matthew Skoff (McKees Rocks, Pa.), who earned two accolades already, Casey Bailey (Anchorage, Alaska) and Taylor Holstrom (Yorba Linda, Calif.).
Penn State is off to a 9-4-2 start overall with a 3-1-0-0 record in Big Ten play. The Nittany Lions are off for the rest of the semester and return to action on Dec. 29 to play Robert Morris in the Three Rivers Classic hosted by the CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh. PSU returns the next night to face Colgate or Western Michigan.