2018-19 Michigan Hockey schedule is gettin' weird

USCHO has an annual spreadsheet where it collects all of the scheduling tidbits released across college hockey and organizes it into a big Google doc.

Michigan's 2018-19 schedule is nearly complete with one more regular season game to be made known.

And boy oh boy, does it look strange. 

After a January 1-2 GLI last season the pretty much killed any hopes of drawing a decent crowd, the GLI will return to late December. How late you ask? Very late.

The 2018 GLI is going to be played on December 30-31. Michigan will face Tech in the nightcap with the early game being Lake Superior State vs Michigan State at 4pm.

Short turnaround to say the least. The Red Wings have a tradition of playing a home game on New Year's Eve. So the GLI 3rd place game is going to be an 11:30am puck drop with the championship game being at 2pm. The Red Wings will obviously play later that evening. A tripleheader of hockey.

But wait, there's much more. Just four days later Michigan will travel to face Notre Dame in a weekend series to open up January on the 4th and 5th. The Saturday game on the 5th is gonna be outdoors at Notre Dame Stadium. 

Just 3 days later, Michigan will play an ultra rare Tuesday night home game against Merrimack from Hockey East before traveling to Ohio State 3 days later for a weekend series. The first of two bye weeks will follow.

To recap: Michigan will play 7 games over a 14 day span. 

The Merrimack game in January was likely added because Michigan will only play at Yost 4 times in the second half of the season as far as regular season games go. 

There still is one more game to be announced. Wouldn't be surprised if it's Ferris State on the road as a season opener because the season ain't starting 3 weeks into October. 

• 10/19 vs Western Michigan
• 10/20 at Western Michigan
• 10/26 vs St. Lawrence
• 10/27 vs St. Lawrence
• 11/2 at Lake Superior State
• 11/3 at Lake Superior State
• 11/9 vs Notre Dame
• 11/10 vs Notre Dame
• 11/16 at Penn State
• 11/17 at Penn State
  11/23 vs Wisconsin
• 11/24 vs Wisconsin
• 11/30 at Michigan State
• 12/1 vs Michigan State
• 12/7 vs Minnesota
• 12/8 vs Minnesota
• Great Lakes Invitational (Detroit, MI)
  12/30 Michigan Tech
  12/31 LSSU/MSU
• 1/4 at Notre Dame
• 1/5 at Notre Dame (outdoors)
• 1/8 vs Merrimack
• 1/11 at Ohio State
• 1/12 at Ohio State
• 1/24 vs Penn State
• B1G Super Saturday (New York, NY)
  1/26 Penn State
• 2/1 at Minnesota
• 2/2 at Minnesota
• 2/8 vs Michigan State
• Duel in the D (Detroit, MI)
  2/9 Michigan State
• 2/22 vs Ohio State
• 2/23 vs Ohio State
• 3/1 at Wisconsin
• 3/2 at Wisconsin