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The opening rounds of the ACHA National Tournament lived up to the expectations - the top 3 seeds all destroyed their (undeserving) autobid opponents; the 4th seed struggled with their autobid...

Another year, another solid class of Icer seniors prepare for their final games in Blue and White. While there were no championships for this group, a fair number of great accomplishments and...

Although the ACHA National Tournament is still a month away, it was a playoff atmosphere that filled the Ice Pavilion for a weekend set against #6 Rhode Island. A split with the Rams would go a...

Technology today makes for some interesting trash talking. In years past, trash talking in the ACHA was only done through the college papers, and that was horribly inefficient. It would take days...

The weekend of new names started early on Friday for the Icers. At the Board of Trustees meeting, it was announced that the new ice rink being built on campus will be named the Pegula Ice Arena -...

Looking to wrap up the ESCHL regular season title, the Icers headed down to Philadelphia to take on a weak Drexel team. They'd have to complete the weekend without #2 scorer Dominic Morrone, who is...

An update on the Penn State hockey team and their quest for the ESCHL title.

Coming off of a decent showing at the MPAL Stovepipe tournament over the Thanksgiving weekend, the Icers returned to the Ice Pavillion for a few ACHA games. On the slate for the Icers were 3 home...

Injuries. Suspensions. This Icer team cares not. Okay, they do, and they'd like all these things to stop. But the Icers plow on regardless. As was mentioned in the last post, Marek Polidor and...

  The first two weekends of hockey could be best described as a small roller-coaster. After being gifted a win in the first game of the season, the team turned it around and completely destroyed...