Penn State loses to Vermont, 5-2, in Philly Faceoff
Forwards Taylor Holstrom and Tommy Olczyk scored in the first period to give the Penn State men's hockey team a 2-0 lead, but the Nittany Lions fell to Vermont, 5-2, in the Philadelphia College Hockey Faceoff at the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday evening.
Forwards Taylor Holstrom and Tommy Olczyk scored in the first period to give the Penn State men's hockey team a 2-0 lead, but the Nittany Lions fell to Vermont, 5-2, in the Philadelphia College Hockey Faceoff at the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday evening.
With the loss, the Lions fell to 1-3-1, while the Catamounts improved to 1-1-1.
Holstrom gave the Nittany Lions a 1-0 lead at 11 minutes, 56 seconds of the first period before Olczyk netted a shorthanded marker less than two minutes later.
Vermont scored once in the first period to cut the lead to 2-1 before netting a pair of goals in both the second and third periods.
In the third period, Brendan Bradley tallied a shorthanded goal for Vermont before Rob Hamilton scored on the power play with 10:33 left in the game to account for the 5-2 final.
The Nittany Lions outshot the Catamounts, 33-29, but went 0 for 5 on the power play.
Freshman goaltender Eamon McAdam turned aside 24 shots.
Vermont netminder Mike Santaguida made 31 saves.