Jim Meinecke

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State hockey season doesn’t start until Sunday, Oct. 2, but hockey is alive and well in Happy Valley. On Sept. 26, the Buffalo Sabres and […]

For the first time since their last Stanley Cup win in 2009, the Penguins held off the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 in front of a raucous Consol Energy Center crowd on Thursday night to advance to the Stanley Cup Final.

By now, pretty much everyone knows the story. Mike Johnston’s Pittsburgh Penguins were struggling to stay in the playoff hunt. They weren’t having fun together. They weren’t scoring goals. They weren’t winning. They were underachieving. Maybe more importantly, they had no resolve.

When the clock ran down on April 23, as the Pittsburgh Penguins made quick work of the New York Rangers in five games, an energy was felt around the team that hadn’t been there for a number of years. Another weight was off of the veterans’ collective backs.

It was the second week of December, and the Pittsburgh Penguins sat in the middle of the Eastern Conference standings at 15-10-3. The team was struggling to string wins together. The Pens were playing a boring brand of hockey.

Tommy Olczyk’s final weekend at Pegula Ice Arena brought some mixed results. After Penn State drubbed Ohio State 6-1 on Feb. 19, they were outplayed for much of the following day during Senior Day before ultimately falling to the Buckeyes, 7-4.

UNIVERSITY PARK — After a disappointing 7-4 loss to the Michigan Wolverines on Jan. 28 at Pegula Arena, the Penn State men’s hockey team could not earn a split […]

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State men’s hockey team earned six crucial points in the Big Ten standings as they swept Wisconsin Jan. 15 and 16 at Pegula Ice […]

UNIVERSITY PARK — For the most part, the Penn State men’s hockey team cruised through the first half of the season going 11-2-3. Over the last four games, however, they […]

PITTSBURGH — The Penn State men’s hockey team found itself in an unfamiliar spot Dec. 29. The Nittany Lions had just lost the previous night for the first […]