UMD Men's Hockey Announces 2024-25 Schedule
The University of Minnesota Duluth men's hockey team unveiled its 2024-25 season schedule today, including a new playoff format and new opponents.
UMD will begin the season's campaign with a single game against Bemidji State University. The home opener on Saturday, October 5 has an early start, with puck drop scheduled for 5:07 p.m.
On Friday, October 18, the Bulldogs will begin a home series against in-state rival University of Minnesota. The last time the team's played a two-game series in one location was in November 2013, when UMD and UMN split the series in Minneapolis. Looking back even further, the two programs have not played back-to-back games at AMSOIL Arena since October 2011.
The following weekend, the Bulldogs will take on Stonehill College for the first time. The Skyhawks became an NCAA Division I program ahead of the 2022-23 season. In its second season, SC ended 2-34, with wins over Lindenwood University and Assumption College (DII).
UMD begins National Collegiate Hockey Conference play at the start of November. On November 8 and November 9, the Bulldogs will host the 2023-24 NCHC Regular Season Champions, University of North Dakota.
Then, to kick off December, UMD will travel to Tempe, Ariz. to take on Arizona State University for the first time as conference opponents. The NCHC announced in July 2023 that the conference would be expanding to include the Sun Devils as its ninth member, effective July 2024. Since ASU made the move to NCAA DI ahead of the 2015-16 season, the two programs have only faced off twice. In October 2022, the Bulldogs swept the Sun Devils in a two-game weekend series in Duluth.
On Friday, January 24 and Saturday, January 25, the Bulldogs are scheduled to rematch the 2024 NCAA Champions University of Denver. Last season, DU eliminated UMD in the first round of the NCHC Playoffs. They went on to win the Frozen Faceoff and the program's 10th national championship.
This season, the NCHC Playoff format will change slightly. All nine teams will make the tournament, but the No. 8 and 9 seeds will faceoff in a play-in game, two days prior to the start of the best-of-three quarterfinal series.
Additional information and start times will be announced when available.
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