The Big Ten announced its complete 2022-23 men’s hockey schedule on Monday morning with the traditional slate of games that will see each team play on four occasions during the regular season with two meetings at home and two on the road. The program recently announced its complete out of conference slate. The team also recently announced captains, a group of players headlined by Paul DeNaples.
Much like their football counterparts, Penn State will open Big Ten play on the road for the third-straight season and the sixth time in the last 10 seasons. The Nittany Lions are 5-4-0 all-time in Big Ten openers but have lost the first conference game of the year each of the past two seasons. Penn State will start off conference play with the Wisconsin Badgers, in Madison on October 28-29.
The following weekend the Nittany Lions return to Pegula Ice Arena for their Big Ten home opener against the 2022 Big Ten Tournament champion Michigan Wolverines on November 4-5 before returning to the Midwest with a Thursday-Friday clash against the reigning Big Ten regular-season champions, Minnesota, on November 11-12.
Penn State will then plays its next four conference games and six overall at home as it hosts Michigan State the weekend prior to Thanksgiving on November 18-19 before welcoming the Ohio State Buckeyes to State College on December 2-3 with a non-conference series against Alaska sandwiched in between.
The Nittany Lions will close out the opening semester of action with a trip to South Bend to battle Notre Dame on December 9-10.
Following a home-and-home New Year’s tilt with RIT, Penn State resumes conference play on the road in East Lansing on January 13-14 before returning home the following weekend to face Notre Dame.
The Nittany Lions then travel back-to-back weekends to Michigan (January 27-28) and Ohio State (February 2-3) before their final bye-week of the 2022-23 season.
Following an off week, Penn State closes its regular season campaign with a pair of home series against Minnesota and Wisconsin on February 17-18 and February 24-25, respectively.
