Pegula Ice Arena on the campus of Penn State University is a hockey player's dream.

The $100 million facility has a state-of-the-art weight room, underwater treadmill, a sports nutrition area. The 5,704-seat palace also has a dedicated and raucous student section.

"It's all hockey all the time," Penn State coach Guy Gadowsky said. "This building is for [the players]. It's a wonderful thing."

But for all its high-priced amenities, the one item that helped put Penn State hockey in the national spotlight is a ping-pong table.

That's where Gadowsky immediately bonded with Gavin McKenna during his recruiting visit. A few months later, McKenna, a generational talent projected to be the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, announced on ESPN's "SportsCenter" on July 8 he would be taking his talen

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