Opening night at Pegula Ice Arena

Penn State's David Goodwin converted a 2-on-1 rush and scored his second goal of the game with 43 seconds left in overtime Friday night as the Nittany Lions beat No. 10 Michigan 5-4 in Ann Arbor, Mich.

(Joe Hermitt | jhermitt@pennlive.com)

David Goodwin and Casey Bailey made sure Penn State's first men's hockey game at Yost Ice Arena in Ann Arbor, Mich., was one the Nittany Lions would never forget.

Bailey's second goal of the game with five seconds left in regulation pulled PSU even Friday night, and Goodwin's second goal of the night in the final minute of overtime gave the Nittany Lions a 5-4 victory against 10th-ranked Michigan.

The late-game heroics helped Penn State secure its second Big Ten win of the season and both have come at the Wolverines’ expense.

The Lions (6-19-2, 2-10-1-0) rallied from a 3-1 deficit to pull even, fell behind again with 2:02 left in regulation and still found a way to win their first road game since Nov. 1.

With his team trailing 4-3, coach Guy Gadowsky pulled goalie Matthew Skoff for an extra attacker. When the Wolverines couldn’t clear the zone, Bailey snapped a pass from David Williamson past Michigan netminder Zach Nagelvoort through a screen at 19:55 to force OT.

David Goodwin

As time ticked down in the extra session, Penn State pounced on a turnover by Mac Bennett at Michigan’s offensive blueline. Goodwin and Zach Saar headed up ice on a 2-on-1 rush.

Using Saar as a decoy, Goodwin lasered a shot over Naglevoort’s right shoulder and into the net with 43 seconds left in OT.

Penn State’s only other conference victory had come Feb. 8 against Michigan (14-9-4, 6-5-2-1), when Skoff made 32 saves in a 4-0 at Pegula Ice Arena.

There would be no shutout on this night as PSU fell behind 2-0 in the game’s first seven minutes. Michigan’s Derek DeBlois pounced on an Eric Scheid turnover and centered a pass Cristoval Nieves snapped past Skoff at 5:40.

Just 61 seconds later, the Wolverines went up by two as Phil Di Giuseppe’s power-play shot from the right circle rang off the post but he jumped on his own rebound and hammered a drive past Skoff at 6:41.

It didn’t take long for the Nittany Lions to answer back, all of 25 ticks later. Goodwin one-timed a Taylor Holstrom centering pass behind Nagelvoort at 7:06.

Casey Bailey

Michigan restored its two-goal cushion when Tyler Motte shoveled Andrew Copp’s backhand cross-crease past Skoff at 15:37.

Skoff allowed three goals on nine first-period shots and the Nittany Lions went into the intermission down 3-1.

Bailey one-timed Dylan Richard’s pass with 35 seconds left in the middle period, pulling PSU within a goal heading into the final 20 minutes.

Richard pulled the visitors even 3:17 into the third, beating Nagelvoort with a backhand shot on a short-handed breakaway.

Alex Guptill seemingly put the Wolverines back in control at 17:58 of the third, firing a shot past Skoff after J.T. Compher’s nifty set-up. Bailey’s shot through the screen of teammates Kenny Brooks and Holstrom forged a 4-4 deadlock, one Goodwin ended on a happy note for the Lions.

Skoff made 32 saves to earn the victory. Nagelvoort finished with 39 stops.

NOTES: Penn State came into Friday's game with a 1-8-0 mark on the road this season. The only previous win was a 5-4 triumph at Robert Morris on Nov. 1. The Lions managed another win away from State College on Dec. 27 when they beat RMU again, 3-2, at Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. But that win at the Three Rivers Classic was considered a neutral-ice victory. … Bailey's last two-goal game came Dec. 29, 2012 against Ohio State, also at Consol Energy Center. He has four goals in three games vs. the Wolverines this season. … PSU played without the services of injured Ds Luke Juha and Nate Jensen. … Michigan D Michael Downing and F Andrew Sinelli served their one-game suspensions for illegal hits last weekend vs. Minnesota. Both are eligible to return for Saturday night's rematch against Penn State.

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