Kara Lentz takes a look at the Penn State women’s ice hockey team which is playing its first season as a varsity team. Watch the feature now as Lentz talks with head coach Josh Brandwene and various players.

You’ve heard of Happy Valley. Wait until you see Hockey Valley. Penn State’s new hockey home, Pegula Ice Arena, is a sight to behold. The new facility, which will open for the 2014 season, included an $80 million construction fee, and it’s pretty easy to see where all the money went. With a capacity of 6,000, Pegula will be the smallest arena in the Big Ten, however it was constructed to have the fans right on the ice. Watch Kara Lentz’s all-access tour of the new arena now.

The Penn State men’s hockey team makes its highly anticipated debut Friday night. Before the Nittany Lions take on American International, let’s catch you up on some of the latest happenings around the program. First and foremost, there’s this photo gallery of the construction at Pegula Ice Arena, the team’s home starting next winter. Click on that link and get lost. You won’t regret it.

The Penn State men’s hockey team begins play this winter, and on Tuesday afternoon, the program unveiled its uniforms. Nike designed the new threads, as it does for all Penn State teams. The Nittany Lions will have two combinations, one that’s all-blue and another that has a white sweater and blue pants. See a couple pictures of the uniforms in this post.

Men’s hockey will become an official Big Ten sport in the 2013-14 academic year, so with that in mind, the Big Ten Conference office announced Thursday that its tournaments will be held at Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minn., in 2014 and 2016, and at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Mich., in 2015 and 2017.