T
he question at the start of the season
was as sobering as it was straight-
forward: Where were the goals going
to come from? The Penn State men's ice
hockey team had lost two of its top three
scorers, and there was no way to know
for sure who, if anyone, would ;ll the of-
fensive void, or whether those personnel
losses would stall the program's momen-
tum on the heels of its ;rst winning season.
Five months later, the Nittany Lions
have their answers. Ranked 14th in both
major Division I polls as of early March,
they head into the postseason having al-
ready won more games than in any of
their previous three varsity seasons, and
having largely answered the questions
about their o
