Hockey Schedule Released

Disclaim and you shall receive: Michigan's released next year's hockey schedule. The nonconference:

• Icebreaker tourney @ Minnesota. First round versus BC (welcome to college hockey, enormous freshman class), second game versus Minnesota or RPI.
• Home series against BU.
• Showcase @ home.
• Providence, then Tech/MSU in the GLI.

Seems stiff for a team that will be young and lacking any established stars except maybe Porter if you believe he's more than a product of Hensick. BU in Yost should be fun, though. Our clustermates are MSU, NMU, and LSSU.

One positive: they spread the games out much better than they did a year ago, when it seemed there was hockey every weekend early in the year and then very few games in the winter semester.