2018–19 Penn State Nittany Lions men's ice hockey season

The 2018–19 Penn State Nittany Lions men's ice hockey season was the 13th season of play for the program and the 6th season in the Big Ten Conference. The Nittany Lions represented Pennsylvania State University and were coached by Guy Gadowsky, in his 8th season.
==Season==
Playing most of their non-conference schedule at home, Penn State rose up the rankings with a hot start to the season. The team cooled off when their conference schedule began and the Nittany Lions could not find any consistency for several months. Penn State ended up a game below .500 in the Big Ten standings and faced the prospect of having to win the Big Ten Tournament to receive an NCAA berth. After a rocky start the Nittany Lions overcame Wisconsin in the quarterfinal round, then pulled off an upset over top-ranked Ohio State to set PSU against Notre Dame. Both teams faced a win or go home scenario and played a close game throughout. The Fighting Irish gained three separate 1-goal leads and they were able to keep their final edge, holding Penn State off in the third period despite a barrage of shots from the Lions' nation-leading offense.
==Departures==
Erik Autio 	Defenseman		Graduation (Signed with SaiPa)
Matthew Erlichman	Goaltender		Graduation (Retired)
Trevor Hamilton 	Defenseman		Signed Professional Contract (Grand Rapids Griffins)
Matt Mendelson 	Forward 		Left Program (Retired)
Brett Murray 	Forward 		Signed Professional Contract (Youngstown Phantoms)
James Robinson 	Forward 		Graduation (Signed with Jokers de Cergy)
Andrew Sturtz 	Defenseman		Signed Professional Contract (Ottawa Senators)
==Recruiting==
Oskar Autio 	Goaltender 		18	Espoo, FIN
Paul DeNaples 	Defenseman 		20	Moscow, PA
Ludvig Larsson	Forward/Defenseman		22	Malmö, SWE; transfer from Merrimack
Max Sauvé 	Forward 		20	Acushnet, MA
Aarne Talvitie	Forward 		19	Espoo, FIN; selected 160th overall in 2017
==Roster==
As of September 3, 2018.
==Standings==
==Schedule and Results==
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|colspan=12|Penn State wins series 2–1
==Scoring Statistics==
 	C 	39	23 	27 	50 	10
 	C/LW 	32	16 	27 	43 	55
 	C 	39	18 	24 	42 	8
 	LW 	37	16 	24 	40 	4
 	LW 	39	19 	18 	37 	24
 	C 	39	14 	15 	29 	8
 	C 	39	14 	15 	29 	57
 	D 	39	6 	22 	28 	24
 	C/D 	39	9 	16 	25 	22
 	RW/LW	37	8 	14 	22 	6
 	D 	39	4 	17 	21 	12
 	LW 	39	9 	9 	18 	10
 	C/LW 	17	5 	11 	16 	2
 	D 	35	2 	13 	15 	19
 	C/LW 	34	7 	7 	14 	18
 	D 	39	2 	12 	14 	6
 	D 	35	1 	10 	11 	43
 	D 	21	1 	8 	9 	6
 	D 	14	2 	2 	4 	0
 	D 	23	0 	3 	3 	8
 	D 	26	0 	3 	3 	6
 	F 	30	0 	3 	3 	31
 	F 	9 	1 	1 	2 	0
 	G 	3 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	7 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	32	0 	0 	0 	0
Bench	- 	- 	- 	- 	- 	10
Total	 	 	177	301	478	389
==Goaltending statistics==
 	32	1878	18	12	2	104	942 	0	.901	3.32
 	3 	122 	0 	2 	0	7 	59 	0	.894	3.42
 	7 	340 	4 	1 	0	20 	152 	0	.884	3.53
Empty Net	- 	21 	- 	- 	-	8 	- 	-	- 	-
Total 	39	2363	22	15	2	139	1153	0	.892	3.53
==Rankings==
Poll 	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week	Week 	Week
Poll 	Pre 	1 	2 	3 	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	10 	11 	12 	13 	14 	15 	16 	17 	18 	19 	20 	21 	22 	23 (Final)	
USCHO.com	16 	16 	10 	10 	6 	8 	5 	6 	6 	9 	9 	11 	13 	15 	15 	18 	17 	19 	18 	18 	17 	17 	16 	17 	
USA Today	15 	NR 	11 	9 	6 	8 	5 	6 	6 	9 	9 	10 	9 	10 	12 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	NR 	
==Players drafted into the NHL==
===2019 NHL Entry Draft===
6	181	Kevin Wall†	Carolina Hurricanes
† incoming freshman
==References==
==External links==
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