For the primary time, historic West Shore Dwelling Area at Beaver Stadium shall be dwelling to Penn State hockey this January.
The Hockey Valley Doubleheader, that includes the lads’s and ladies’s hockey groups in convention matchups, will happen on Jan. 31, 2026.
“This can be a historic second for Penn State Hockey, our followers and your complete Penn State neighborhood,” stated Penn State VP for intercollegiate athletics Dr. Patrick Kraft in an announcement. “To carry the joy of faculty hockey to Beaver Stadium is actually particular. Having our males’s program face a premier Huge Ten opponent in Michigan State and our ladies’s program face Robert Morris on this stage displays the unimaginable development and nationwide profile of Penn State hockey and supplies an unforgettable expertise for our student-athletes, alumni and followers. We will’t wait to see Hockey Valley come alive in Beaver Stadium.”
The Penn State males’s hockey staff is coming off a second half surge final season that noticed them end the yr on a 15-5-4 run that culminated in its first-ever Frozen 4 berth following a regional championship in Allentown. The Nittany Lions return 75% of its complete offense and 83% of its objective scoring, together with every of its prime six objective scorers from its 2024-25 roster, whereas including seven skaters who mixed for 563 factors on 201 targets and 362 assists in 435 video games throughout 5 totally different leagues final season.
“Our staff and so many Penn Staters are extraordinarily enthusiastic about this recreation in Beaver Stadium,” stated Nittany Lions males’s hockey head coach Man Gadowsky. “It has been constantly requested of me since I arrived at Penn State, and I wish to ship because of Coach Franklin for sharing his dwelling with us, in addition to Dr. Pat Kraft, Vinnie James, and your complete Penn State athletics division for making it occur. We will’t wait to take the sphere.”
The ladies’s hockey staff can be coming off an unimaginable 2024-25 marketing campaign that noticed the Nittany Lions set a program-record with 31 wins, together with an AHA report 19 convention victories en path to their third-straight league championship and NCAA match look.
“We wish to thank Dr. Kraft for persevering with to broaden the objective posts, or on this case remove them, so we will have an out of doors recreation at Beaver Stadium,” Penn State ladies’s hockey head coach Jeff Kampersal stated. “This chance is momentous and historic for Penn State Hockey. Contemplating all of the legendary moments the lads in black footwear and fundamental blues have created on this turf, we’re trying ahead to creating a few of our personal and making Penn State proud. Thanks, Pat.”
