The Penn State hockey team has put together a historic season seemingly out of nowhere. Head coach Guy Gadowsky admitted that he and his staff were not sure if this season would be a rebuilding year or one that the team would struggle to match the success of the previous season.
The Lions won a program-record 21 games in 2015-16, and late in the season tempted the possibility of squeezing into the NCAA tournament field. In the last couple of weeks it lost three games in a row, including the two final games of the season to a loaded Michigan squad.