Newsflash: try not to make Kevin Jaeger mad.

"I was already pretty frustrated, I got to the pre-game [activities] late and I had to sit a lot of the first period," Jaeger said.

The senior was forced to miss much of the opening minutes during the Icers 4-3 win in overtime against Ohio on Saturday due to arriving late to the Greenberg Ice Pavilion.

It would eventually work out for the Icers. The 5-foot-8, 170-pound senior forward has grown accustomed to taking beatings while playing the sport he loves. Because of his size, opposing teams seek to slow Jaeger down during the course of a game by badgering him with physical play. But just because he knows it's coming, that's no indication he welcomes it.

"They got under my skin and I knew I had to settle down after that first period, I was yelling at the referee a lot ... I should expect it," Jaeger said.

The Bobcats targeted Jaeger as he entered the game and following the 15:35 mark of the period he was viciously cheap-shotted by an Ohio player, which resulted in a 10-minute misconduct. Jaeger lay on the ice as blood dripped from his previously stitched-up chin.

After drawing a penalty late in the second period, Jaeger gathered himself and remembered his patented way of combating this kind of attack.

He killed the Bobcats with offense.

With the game tied at one in the second period, Jaeger was on a 2-on-1 breakaway with his Icer teammate Teague Willits-Kelley. Willits-Kelley hit Jaeger with a pass that was right on the tape of Jaeger's stick as he deposited the goal between the legs of the goaltender.

After the Icers gave up two goals late in that second period, Jaeger felt his team needed a boost at the start of the third.

"We were really disappointed, we're usually a fairly-disciplined team but Ohio is too and in this type of game, it's all about drawing penalties," Jaeger said.

A senior who was there last year when the Bobcats ended the Icer's title hopes, Jaeger avoided that heart-breaking feeling once more by scoring points.

Jaeger would eventually record his second hat trick of the season, including the all-important game-winner in overtime as his second effort on the play allowed him to sneak the puck past Ohio's Ryan Baksh. On the day he moved past Ross Cowan for third on the all-time Icers scoring list. He now has 116 goals and will look next to pass his former teammate Glenn Zuck, who finished his career with 124 goals.

Jaeger isn't shy in reference to talking about the record as long as his team wins.

"It's one of my goals, it's nothing I want to affect the team because I'm never going to be a selfish player over it, but it's definitely something I'd like to achieve before the year's end," Jaeger said.

The goals will come for Jaeger, as will the bumps and bruises, both evident during the course of his career.

"Kevin is used to that, teams are going to go after him but sooner or later he's going to draw a penalty," Penn State coach Joe Battista said.

And with that penalty, a potential power-play goal could be added to the stat sheet for Jaeger, regardless of the hits he takes.

"I guess he answered the best way he knows how, with a hat-trick," Battista said.