Captain Tommy Olczyk was answering questions postgame Saturday night after Penn State’s 3-2 loss to No. 2 Boston College about where the team stands, what he thought of the Nittany Lions’ play — the normal postgame press conference. The captain is well-spoken, especially when speaking with the media.

Then, Olczyk got asked a question about alternate captain David Glen, and Olczyk fumbled his words — something that rarely happens. But as it turns out, he may have found the best way to describe Glen.

“David is a standup guy,” Olczyk said. “You see with the play on his ice. He's a three-way player, playing every single zone.”

“Three-way player” isn’t a hockey term.

“Two-way player,” the captain caught himself referring to Glen’s ability to be efficient on offense and defense. Then he corrected himself again.

“Now he's a three-way player,” Olczyk said, speaking to Glen’s latest assist, which came off the ice.

Glen will likely miss Penn State’s upcoming series with Ohio State as he donated his bone marrow over the weekend to help save someone’s life, who was in critical need of the marrow. According to fellow teammates and coach Guy Gadowsky, it doesn’t surprise them one bit the captain would do it.

“You can see this by how he plays and by getting to know him, he's the ultimate team guy,” Gadowsky said. “He's very, very under-spoken. He's very, very humble. He's such an all-about-the-team guy. He doesn't like the limelight. I love the way he is.”

Glen, a forward for Penn State, underwent the non-surgical procedure on Friday and did not suit up on Saturday. But the alternate captain was spotted at Saturday’s game. He, along will several other THON families, were honored at intermission of Saturday’s game with Boston College.

Glen received one of the loudest ovations when he was announced.

“When he came in, we were certainly on the same page since the word ‘Go,’ ” Gadowsky said. “He was just very proud to do it and have that opportunity right from the word ‘Go.’ ...We're very proud of him and I'm very proud our program is associated with him.”

During the 2012-13 season, the mother of Drew Roper, a Penn State men’s lacrosse player, was in need of marrow, and with the help of his teammates, Roper set up a swab drive through the BeTheMatch campaign.

BeTheMatch then helps connect matches for people who need it, and while he wasn’t a match for Roper’s mother, Glen found out he was for another person.

“It's something so little to save a life,” Olczyk said. “It's very cool. And it's something that everyone on our team, we all look up to him for what he did. It's awesome.”

Last year, Glen was one of Penn State’s points leaders with 25 total, and while he jumped out to a slow start this season, he’s picked up five points. Three of them have been assists. And while his fourth of the year won’t show up on the score sheet, it’s his most important assist of the year.

“Maybe that's what will start calling that,” Olczyk said. “David Glen, the three-way player.”