CINCINNATI
The college hockey world is impressed.
A 10-3 win against a national power in the NCAA tournament will do that.
“They’re very good,” Union coach Rick Bennett said, referring to the Nittany Lions. “Fast, tenacious, put pucks to the net like we knew they were going to.”
In its first-ever NCAA tournament appearance, the Penn State men’s hockey team put on an offensive show unlike any that had been seen in the postseason in more than a quarter century.
The Nittany Lions scored seven unanswered goals and barreled over Union, an NCAA tournament veteran, 10-3 Saturday evening in the first round of the Midwest Regional at U.