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| PSU | 2014-15 Statistics | CAN |
| 18-15-4 | Overall Record | 18-12-7 |
| 10-9-1-0 | Conference Record | 15-7-6 |
| 119 | Goals Scored | 94 |
| 113 | Goals Allowed | 83 |
| 3.2 | Goals Scored/gm. | 2.5 |
| 3.1 | Goals Allowed/gm. | 2.2 |
| 1,452 | Shots | 1,052 |
| 39.2 | Shots/gm. | 28.4 |
| 194 | Assists | 163 |
| 28-128 | Power Plays | 27-135 |
| .219 | Power-Play Pct. | .200 |
| 104-129 | Penalty Kills | 116-133 |
| .806 | Penalty-Kill Pct. | .872 |
| 1,092 | Saves | 985 |
| 0 | Shutouts | 2 |
Oct. 8, 2015
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Nittany Lion men's hockey team begins a season as a Division I program on the road for the first time, traveling to Canisius on Saturday night. Puck drop is slated for 7:30 p.m. at HARBORCENTER, the Pegula family financed hockey facility in downtown Buffalo.
The game will be carried live on the Penn State Sports Network and locally on WRSC 103.1 FM in State College along with free streaming audio through GoPSUNow. Canisius will provide a paid video stream through Eversport.TV.
THIS WEEK'S MATCHUP
Penn State begins its 2015-16 regular season with a road contest against Canisius on Saturday, Oct. 10 at HARBORCENTER. Puck drop is set for 7:30 p.m.
• Marks the first time Penn State has played Canisius in hockey. Also just the fifth game played in the Empire State.
• The game will be played at HARBORCENTER, the $172 million, 600,000-square foot hockey-themed, mixed-use development located in downtown Buffalo. The venue was financed by Penn State benefactors, Terry and Kim Pegula.
SEASON OPENERS
• Penn State begins it season on the road for the first time in the NCAA Division I era.
• The Nittany Lions are 1-1-1 in season openers under head coach Guy Gadowsky. Last year, Penn State played to a 2-2 tie against Connecticut.
• For the third time in four seasons as a Division I program, the Nittany Lions play an Atlantic Hockey opponent. PSU is 1-1-0 against AHA teams in season openers.
FIRST-TIME OPPONENT
• Canisius is the first of five first-time opponents for the Nittany Lions this season and the first of two on the road (Niagara, Nov. 6).
RECAPPING THE WINDSOR GAME
Penn State played its first preseason game in program history, overcoming a two-goal deficit to score five unanswered goals and win, 5-2, over Windsor on Sunday, Oct. 4 at Pegula Ice Arena.
• David Glen led the way with three points on two goals and an assist.
• Glen's linemate, David Goodwin, cashed in on a goal and an assist. His goal with 8.6 seconds left in the second period tied the game.
• Curtis Loik opened the scoring midway through the second period on an unassisted tally.
• Freshman defenseman Vince Pedrie chipped in with a pair of assists and goalie Eamon McAdam made 12 saves in 30-plus minutes of action while not allowing a goal.
SCOUTING CANISIUS
The Canisius Golden Griffins, like Penn State, played an exhibition game on Sunday, falling 4-2 to the Ontario Institute of Technology.
• Canisius went 18-12-7 last year en route to a second place finish in Atlantic Hockey and the AHA Semifinals.
• The Golden Griffins went 15-7-6 in conference play and 10-5-5 at home.
• Canisius was 9-4-5 in its first season at HARBORCENTER last season.
• The Griffs averages 2.5 goals per game and 2.2 goals allowed per game. At home, Canisius scored 2.3 goals per game and allowed 2.0 per game.
• Canisius is led by 11th-year head coach David Smith, who has led CC to three straight AHA semifinal appearances
• Senior Ralph Cuddemi and junior Shane Conacher led the Griffs in scoring last year, combining for 76 points.
• Cuddemi earned preseason All-AHA honors. He scored 22 times last season. Conacher had a team-high 26 assists.
• Sophomore Ryan Schmelzer led the team in plus-minus (+15) last season while scoring five times and posting nine assists.
• Sophomore goalie Reilly Turner returns after playing 13 games in 2014-15 with a 2.54 GAA and .915 save percentage.
• Golden Griffins have 12 freshmen, the third largest rookie class in the country.
PENN STATE-CANISIUS TIES
• A group of Nittany Lions and Golden Griffins played junior hockey together before joining the college ranks.
Cedar Rapids RoughRiders (2012-15)
Alec Marsh (PSU), Dylan McLaughlin (CAN)
New Jersey Hitmen (2014-15)
Chris Funkey (PSU), Cameron Heath (CAN)
Lincoln Stars (2012-13)
Eric Scheid (PSU), David Parrottino (CAN)
Port Huron Fighting Falcons (2012-13)
Ricky DeRosa (PSU), David Parrottino (CAN)
I'M COMING HOME
Freshman forward Andrew Sturtz will play his first Penn State game in his home town of Buffalo. Sturtz graduated from Kenmore East High School in 2012.
RECAPPING 2014-15
Penn State put together its best season by adding 10 wins to its overall total and posting a winning season in Big Ten play (10-9-1-0).
• First win over a top-5 team: Nov. 14, 2015 vs. No. 4 UMass Lowell, 4-1, which was Guy Gadowsky's 200th career college win.
• First Big Ten sweep: Dec. 5-6 at Wisconsin; PSU earns a season sweep of the Badgers on Feb. 6-7.
• Nittany Lions earn national rankings in the USCHO poll twice, once at No. 20 and another at No. 19.
• Penn State beats Minnesota, 4-3, in overtime for the first time on Feb. 21.
• Nittany Lions sweep Michigan for the first time (March 6-7) with 10 goals, the most in a single Big Ten weekend by PSU.
• Casey Bailey earns All-Big Ten First Team honors, en route to an NHL contract in March.
• Guy Gadowsky named Big Ten Coach of the Year, his third conference coaching honor.
NITTANY LIONS PICKED FOURTH
• Penn State, entering its fourth season of varsity hockey, was picked behind Michigan, Minnesota and Michigan State, but ahead of Ohio State and Wisconsin in the preseason poll.
• The Nittany Lions were picked sixth in both 2013-14 and 2014-15. Penn State exceeded expectations last season, leading the Big Ten for stretches of the season and with a chance to win the conference entering the final weekend of the season before finishing in fourth.
GOODWIN, SCHEID NAMED B1G PLAYERS TO WATCH
• Forwards David Goodwin and Eric Scheid were among the 12 athletes named to the Big Ten Preseason Players to Watch List on Monday, Sept. 29.
• Goodwin, the leading returning Big Ten point scorer, also posted career marks of 15 goals and 19 assists with a team-best plus-13 rating.
• A double major in economics and Spanish, Goodwin was an All-Big Ten Honorable Mention in 2014-15, adding a team-best four game-winning tallies to his ledger.
• Scheid, a redshirt-senior communication arts & sciences major, is coming off a career best season in 2014-15 where he scored 14 goals and 15 assists in 31 appearances.
• The speedy lefty had three game-winning goals, a short-handed goal and a power-play tally as well, while earning Academic All-Big Ten honors.
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN
• On Aug. 20, head coach Guy Gadowsky announced that senior forward David Glen would be the third Nittany Lion to wear the `C' in 2015-16.
• Glen previously served as alternate captain in 2013-14 and 2014-15. Glen earned the Big Ten's Outstanding Sportsmanship Award in 2013-14 following his bone marrow donation.
• Defensemen Luke Juha and David Thompson were named alternate captains. Both athletes are wearing letters for the first time.
NITTANY LIONS TO MAKE AT LEAST 12 TV APPEARANCES
• The Big Ten released its 2015-16 television schedule on Wednesday, Sept. 23 and Penn State will have at least 12 televised games.
• The Nittany Lions will appear on television for 11 regular-season contests beginning with Jan. 8 at home against Minnesota (6:30 p.m.) on Big Ten Network and BTN2Go. That is the beginning of at least six games on BTN.
• Penn State has two games on ESPNU: Jan. 15 vs. Wisconsin (6 p.m.) and Feb. 20 vs. Ohio State (3 p.m.).
• For the third straight season, the entire Big Ten Tournament will be carried on BTN.
PSU TO PLAY IN FOUR NHL BARNS
• Penn State will make four appearances in NHL buildings this season, all of which the Lions are familiar with
• PSU will play in the fourth annual Philadelphia College Hockey Faceoff at Wells Fargo Center against Vermont (Nov. 29). The Lions are 2-1-0 in the event.
• The Nittany Lions will take part in the fourth Three Rivers Classic (Dec. 28-29), playing Robert Morris in the opener and either UMass Lowell or Clarkson the next night.
• For the second straight year, Penn State will play at "The World's Most Famous Arena" when it takes on Michigan in the second half of a historic doubleheader on Jan. 30.
• The basketball teams open the Big Ten Super Saturday Hoops & Hockey event at Noon, hockey plays at 7 p.m. Both games are on BTN.
• The 2016 Big Ten Tournament is hosted by the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, home to the Minnesota Wild.
STUDENT TICKETS SELL OUT IN FIVE
• Enthusiasm for Penn State hockey on campus was solidified when students purchased all 1,000 Roar Zone tickets in just five minutes on Sept. 3.
• Penn State students have purchased nearly 2,000 season tickets over the past two seasons in just eight minutes.
NITTANY LIONS IN THE PROS
• On March 21, 2015, All-Big Ten First Team forward Casey Bailey signed with the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs. Five days later, he made his pro debut playing against the Florida Panthers.
• Bailey scored his first NHL goal in the season finale vs. Montreal on April 11, 2015.
• Bailey will begin the 2015-16 season with the AHL's Toronto Marlies.
• 2014-15 captain Patrick Koudys begins his pro career with the ECHL's Indy Fuel. The Fuel are affiliated with the Chicago Blackhawks and the AHL's Rockford IceHogs.
PACKING THE PEG
• Penn State has played to a sellout crowd in 33-of-36 home games, including 17 of 18 in 2014-15 season.
• More than 6,000 fans have filed into the arena on 20 occasions.
• In 2014-15, Penn State ranks seventh in average attendance (6,030) and leds the nation in building capacity percentage (104.3 percent). Only Quinnipiac (101.2) could boast a capacity percentage of 100 or more.
• Last season, Penn State had a season-total of 108,534 fans that have been to Pegula Ice Arena, which exceeded the 108,193 during the facility's inaugural campaign.
WELCOME HOME
• Penn State opened the 5,782-seat Pegula Ice Arena with a 4-1 win against Army Oct. 11, 2013.
• The arena was brought to fruition through an initial $88 million donation--the largest in University history--in September 2010 from Penn State alumnus Terry Pegula and his wife, Kim. The Pegulas added to that figure to bring their total donation to $102, supplying $90 million for the facility.
• The $90 million facility broke ground in early February 2012 and was turned over to Penn State in September 2013.
NEXT TIME OUT: OCT. 16-17
• Penn State hosts its home opener with a two-game series against Notre Dame on Friday (7 p.m.) and Saturday (3 p.m.).
• The Nittany Lions and Fighting Irish will meet on the ice for the first time. The two-game set is the first in a four-year series.