This weekend, the Penn State ACHA Division I Icers will try to win out one of their busiest weeks of the year.

The Icers (16-1-3, 12-0-0 ESCHL) face No. 13 West Virginia at 9 tonight and at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon at the Greenberg Ice Pavilion.

These games will complete a streak in which the No. 2 Icers play three games in four days. On Wednesday night, they shut out Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 6-0. Although coach Scott Balboni gave his players Monday off, they practiced Tuesday and Thursday. Despite the busy week, Balboni said fatigue wouldn't be an issue for his team. He was more worried about the mental aspects of his players having a long bus trip

and missing school work so close to finals.

"We went real easy this week in practice and [Wednesday's] game wasn't real physical," he said. "In fact our Tuesday practices are normally more physical than the IUP game was. As they are there mentally we'll be in good shape."

Past physicality has been an issue for the Icers, resulting in multiple injuries this season. Senior Keith Jordan and junior Steve Peck have both been nursing injuries and have been cleared to play tonight and tomorrow. Balboni may continue to rest them, however, depending on the game situations.

"I told coach I'm feeling good enough that I doubt there'd be much risk of re-injuring my foot," Jordan said.

"I might re-aggravate it a little bit, but we'll find out what we want to do and go from there."

Jordan was on the team last year when Penn State shut out West Virginia twice.

Although the team scored a collective eight goals, it took more than 60 shots to get its only two in the second game at Morgantown against goalie Rastislav Kret. The Mountaineer junior, a Slovakia native, is returning to face the Icers tonight and tomorrow. Senior Icer Sean Kenney said they would approach the talented goaltender by getting traffic in front of the net and making him move side to side.

"Our best way to beat him is not shooting it straight into his chest and pads like we did last year," Kenney said. "We made him look better than he was. We had a lot of shots, but we didn't have the quality shots we needed."

In addition to quality shots, the Icers are looking to stay disciplined and stay out of the penalty box. They took only three penalties against IUP on Wednesday and Jordan said West Virginia will try to bring that number up by provoking them.

"They're probably going to trip us and stick us and try to get us to retaliate," Jordan said.

"But we know how to stay disciplined and as long as we play 60 minutes of clean, physical hockey, we'll be OK."