It is never too early to check out nest year’s Bulldog Hockey schedule and mark your calendars. That is especially true this year as the current DECC Arena will be replaced as the home of UMD Hockey by the DECC Expansion (soon to be called the DECC?).
In the new WCHA with 12 teams after adding Bemidji State and Nebraska – Omaha, the rotation of opponents will be different.
Instead of playing five teams four times per season (a series at home and away), teams will play three teams four times. The new scheduling system is named the pod system. There will be three pods of four teams.
The pods are controlled by the current rival system, so each team will play another team, their “rival”, four times every year. UMD’s rival will remain Michigan Tech. The other two teams that make up the pod will rotate every year. The other teams in the Bulldog’s pod are MTU, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
2010-2011 UMD Men's Hockey Schedule
(Home games in CAPS)
Oct. 8 at Lake Superior State
Oct. 9 at Northern Michigan
Oct. 15-16 PROVIDENCE
Oct. 22-23 ALASKA ANCHORAGE
Oct. 29-30 at Bemidji State
Nov. 5-6 at North Dakota
Nov. 12-13 MICHIGAN TECH
Nov. 19-20 at Wisconsin
Nov. 26-27 at Clarkson
Dec. 3-4 DENVER
Dec. 10-11 at Minnesota
Dec. 30 NORTH DAKOTA (DECC Expansion opening)
Jan. 14-15 WISCONSIN
Jan. 21-22 at Michigan Tech
Feb. 4-5 MINNESOTA
Feb. 11-12 ST. CLOUD STATE
Feb. 18-19 at Minnesota State-Mankato
Feb. 25-26 at Colorado College
Mar. 4-5 NEBRASKA-OMAHA
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