Men’s Hockey Announces 2025-26 Non-Conference SlateMen’s Hockey Announces 2025-26 Non-Conference Slate

Men’s Hockey Announces 2025-26 Non-Conference Slate

Penn State set to begin season on the road at Arizona State on October 3-4

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Fresh off their first-ever Frozen Four appearance, head coach Guy Gadowsky and the Penn State men's ice hockey team announced their 10-game non-conference schedule for the 2025-26 season earlier this week.

The Nittany Lions open their 2025-26 campaign away from Pegula Ice Arena for the third-straight season with a trip to Arizona State on October 3-4. The Sun Devils were the first team out of the 2025 NCAA Tournament after finishing the 2024-25 season No. 15 in the Pairwise Rankings. ASU finished second in the NCHC during the regular season advancing all the way to the Frozen Faceoff in Saint Paul, Minnesota before losing to Denver during its inaugural season in the league.

This series is a return trip as Penn State makes good on its part of the Big Ten Hockey agreement that saw Arizona State play a Big Ten regular-season schedule for the shortened 2020-21 season during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Nittany Lions are 8-2-0 all-time against Arizona State with the last meetings coming during that 2020-21 campaign, a pair of thrilling overtime victories for the Blue & White at Pegula Ice Arena.

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Penn State then returns to Hockey Valley for three-straight weeks of non-conference action with a Thursday-Friday series against Clarkson serving as the home opener on October 9-10. The Golden Knights finished 2024-25 with a second-place finish in the ECAC regular season falling just one game shy of an NCAA Tournament berth after dropping the ECAC Championship game to Cornell and concluding the season No. 20 in the Pairwise Rankings with a 24-12-3 record.

The Nittany Lions then host Long Island University on October 17-18 before concluding the month of October with their first-ever meeting against Stonehill on October 24-25.

The Nittany Lions close non-conference play to begin the New Year with a home-and-home series against RIT battling the Tigers at Pegula Ice Arena on January 2 before traveling north to complete the series in Rochester on January 3.

With just seven non-conference losses over the past seven seasons, Penn State leads all Big Ten teams with a 0.764 winning percentage in non-conference games and 94 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.

Full 2025-26 Non-conference Schedule

For more information on the 2025-26 season, visit the men's hockey ticket page at GoPSUsports.com or call 1-800-NITTANY Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.