Malcolm Milligan had every right to smile Tuesday.

The Westmont Hilltop eighth-grader found himself in a floor hockey game with two NHLers inside his middle school gym.

Then, he took a pass on Tampa Bay winger Alex Killorn’s line and buried it for a goal against some of his teachers.

“This was awesome,” said Milligan. “I never thought I’d have a chance to play hockey with NHL players.”

Westmont students got the up-close chance Tuesday afternoon as part of Kraft Hockeyville celebrations.

Killorn, rising Lightning forward, and former Penguins first-round pick Beau Bennett joined their team mascots in a stop at the middle school. They played a quick round of 5-on-5 hockey, fielded questions from fifth-graders and even posed for a gym-wide “selfie.”

The gymnasium was decked out in signs welcoming the players, Kraft and the NHL.

And the eager students made no secret who they’d be rooting for this season.

“Let’s go Pens!” they shouted.

Students asked the players about their off-season hobbies, training habits and the movie “Slap Shot” – a movie the pair called the greatest hockey movie ever made.

Bennett, a fourth-year Penguin, drew the loudest cheers when he told one fifth-grader he played plenty of “Call of Duty” in his down time.

“I play a lot of video games,” he said.

The lanky forward drew a few smiles from teachers, too, when he admitted “I don’t really have a favorite” training routine.

Sixth-grade science teacher Brian Parrish called the Hockeyville experience – both inside the school gym and throughout Johnstown this week – a once-in-a-lifetime moment.

“This is something these kids will remember for the rest of their lives,” he said. “It’s great for them and the rest of us, too.”