Of course, our photographers were at Pegula Ice Arena and barns around the country to capture shots, goals, celebrations, and all the in-betweens. Let\u2019s take a look back at the Nittany Lions\u2019 season on the ice through the lens of our photographers.<\/p>\n
This season, both the Columbus Blue Jackets\u2019 14th pick in the NHL Draft, Jackson Smith, and projected No. 1 draft pick Gavin McKenna appeared with the Nittany Lions.<\/p>\n
The Nittany Lions fought tooth and nail each and every game. <\/p>\n
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At each faceoff, Penn State fought for the puck and won 50.9% of the time.<\/p>\n
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Head coach Guy Gadowsky\u2019s group scored 136 goals across the season compared to the 117 goals allowed.<\/p>\n
And with each goal came some electric celebrations. <\/p>\n
This year was historic, with the first Division I men\u2019s hockey game played at Beaver Stadium.<\/p>\n
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Over the course of the season, there were a few scrums here and there.<\/p>\n
Although the season didn\u2019t end how fans or the team may have wanted, it was still a great year nonetheless.<\/p>\n
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Ella is a second-year Telecommunications major from Miami, Florida. She enjoys taking photos, listening to all genres of music, is a hockey game enjoyer, and has become a self proclaimed grandma. If needed, you can contact her through email at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a> or on Twitter @ellawehm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was an exciting season in Hockey Valley this year. Penn State\u2019s men\u2019s hockey team officially wrapped up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[2144,13621,60769,766,5,4834,3397,2146,2147,2149,4765,2150,34546],"class_list":{"0":"post-545161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-big-ten","9":"tag-big-ten-hockey","10":"tag-big-ten-mens-hockey","11":"tag-gavin-mckenna","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-mens-hockey","14":"tag-ncaa-hockey","15":"tag-onward-state","16":"tag-penn-state","17":"tag-penn-state-hockey","18":"tag-penn-state-mens-hockey","19":"tag-psu","20":"tag-students"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116362434532609614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}