UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Head coach Guy Gadowsky and the Penn State men's ice hockey team announced their 10-game non-conference schedule for the 2024-25 season earlier Monday morning. The schedule features intriguing matchups with a trip to Alaska, a visit to the 2023 National Champions and a neutral site game in Washington, D.C., the program’s first-ever visit to our nation’s capital.
The Nittany Lions open their 2024-25 campaign with three-straight road games for the second-straight season. Penn State will make its second-ever, first in ten years, trip to The Last Frontier for a two-game set against Alaska-Fairbanks on October 5-6.
Penn State will then turn around and go 4,322 miles east for its first-ever meeting with 2023 National Champion Quinnipiac on Saturday October 12.
After nearly 9,000 miles of travel in just over a week, the Nittany Lions will have time to rest with a bye week prior to their home opening series against St. Lawrence on October 25-26 at Pegula Ice Arena.
Penn State then has a week between non-conference opponents as Big Ten play begins prior to a pre-Thanksgiving, Tuesday-Wednesday clash against Colgate. This marks the first trip to Hockey Valley for the Raiders and is the first meetings all-time between the two schools in the current era. Colgate did secure a victory against the Nittany Lions in 1947 as one of only three games Penn State played in its final year during its first varsity era.
Prior to the holiday break, Penn State will battle Army West Point for the second-straight season with a single-game on Thursday, December 12 as part of the inaugural Capital Hockey Classic at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Played as a prelude to the Army-Navy football game on December 14, the contest will be the night cap to a doubleheader following an ACHA contest between the United States Military Academy and United States Naval Academy club hockey squads.
The Nittany Lions conclude non-conference play with a home series against Canisius on January 17-18.
With just seven non-conference losses over the past six seasons, Penn State leads all Big Ten teams with a 0.752 winning percentage in non-conference games and 85 victories against non-Big Ten teams since the league was formed prior to the 2013-14 campaign.
Times for these games as well as television and streaming information will be released in the coming months along with the full Big Ten schedule.
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