B1G Ten Hockey Schedule is Live Starting w/UM vs OSU on Oct 20
Finally, the B1G has announced the 23-24 hockey schedule. The schedule looks good in terms of timing, with a bi right before the WJC in December and a road game for Thanksgiving (at least for me, I always miss those games).
I wish we had a more robust non-conference schedule though. I'm interested what others think about the strength of schedule: is it better to have a weak one (like Penn State did last season, but it worked since they obliterated the weak teams) or a strong one like Michigan had the past two seasons?
Here she is:
https://bigten.org/documents/2023/8/28//2023_24_Big_Ten_Hockey_Schedule.pdf?id=8158
https://mgoblue.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/schedule
Michigan's schedule is:
Oct 7: Providence at Michigan
Oct 8: Providence at Michigan
Oct 13: Michigan at UMass
Oct 14: Michigan at UMass
Oct 20: Ohio State at Michigan
Oct 21: Ohio State at Michigan
Oct 27: Lindenwood at Michigan
Oct 28: Lindenwood at Michigan
Nov 3: Michigan at Wisconsin
Nov 4: Michigan at Wisconsin
Nov 10: Minnesota at Michigan
Nov 11: Minnesota at Michigan
Nov 17: Penn State at Michigan
Nov 17: Penn State at Michigan
Nov 24: Michigan at St. Cloud
Nov 24: Michigan at St. Cloud
Dec 1: Michigan at Notre Dame
Dec 2: Michigan at Notre Dame
Dec 8 and 9: BI (which is awesome since McGroarty, Nazar, Casey, and Brindley will likely be at WJC camp with USA)
January 6: Michigan at US NTDP U18 (in Plymouth, MI)
Jan 12: Stonehill at Michigan
Jan 13: Stonehill at Michigan
January 19: Michigan State at Michigan
January 20: Michigan State at Michigan
January 26: Wisconsin at Michigan
January 27: Wisconsin at Michigan
Feb 2: Michigan at Ohio State
Feb 3: Michigan at Ohio State
Feb 9: Michigan State at Michigan
Feb 10: Michigan vs Michigan State (Little Caesars Arena, Detroit)
Feb 16: Michigan at Penn State
Feb 17: Michigan at Penn State
Feb 23: Notre Dame at Michigan
Feb 23: Notre Dame at Michigan
March 1: Michigan at Minnesota
March 2: Michigan at Minnesota
August 28th, 2023 at 2:26 PM ^
Note: January 19th game is in East Lansing.
August 28th, 2023 at 2:57 PM ^
Great information - thank you.
The Michigan @ ND series is the weekend of the B1G CCG - so, heck - perhaps students can take a bus from Ann Arbor to South Bend on Friday afternoon - enjoy a hockey game - and then, head down to Indy (good Lord willing) - to see the Maize and Blue play a football game in Indy on Saturday night.
The ND @ Michigan series is scheduled for the start of Spring Break.
August 28th, 2023 at 3:06 PM ^
Darn. No home games at Yost on Michigan Football home weekends this fall. Looks like I'll have to instead see if there's a couple of combination hockey/hoops weekends instead over the winter months.
August 28th, 2023 at 3:54 PM ^
I've actually done more of these combo bball/hockey weekends since graduation than I have football ones. Much easier to find decent accommodations that aren't 4 quazillion dollars. Though I'd obviously much prefer the weather of late summer/early fall in AA, it's usually not worth an extra thousand bucks for a 3-4 day trip.
August 28th, 2023 at 8:01 PM ^
Glad I'm not the only one.
I also check for a football/volleyball double header, and I have 3 this year.
The best day in AA was a football, volleyball, hockey game then I went to the AA Comedy Showcase. Left home at 9am got home at 1am
August 28th, 2023 at 3:41 PM ^
@ St Cloud St is significant. @ UMass probably seemed like it when it was scheduled, but they dropped from 11th in Pairwise to 29th last year. Maybe they'll have a better year? Just not at our expense, plz.
August 28th, 2023 at 5:16 PM ^
Yeah, St. Cloud is really the only apparent top ten non-con team of the bunch. Very different than last year's Harvard, BU, and Western lineup and the previous year's Minnesota State and Minnesota Duluth (at the Icebreaker tourney), Western, and UMass (when they were ranked #10, though a overrated at the time) lineup.
I hope UMass will improve this year, though not against us - lol! Surprisingly, Scott Morrow is returning and is quite the dynamic defensemen and UMass is bringing in a class of 3 drafted players (Suniev 3rd round, Vantassell 7th round, O'Neill 5th round). Apparently, they brought in a bunch of grad transfers too. Though my guess is that they are on the outside looking into the tournament, who knows how this will shake out for the Minutemen: https://umassathletics.com/news/2023/7/31/vanroboys-added-to-massachusetts-hockey-roster-as-graduate-transfer
August 29th, 2023 at 9:03 AM ^
Any word on when tickets go on sale? I’d like to get a jump on it this year since single games tended to sell out quickly last year
August 29th, 2023 at 12:13 PM ^
I received an email recently stating that season tickets were all sold out. They shared that ticket packs and single-game tickets will both go on sale in the month of September and instructed folks to Sign up for ticket information to be notified when tickets go on sale. Here it is:
https://mgoblue.com/sports/2017/6/16/ihm-season-ticket-interest-list?utm_medium=email&elq_cid=248802&ehash=43d2342bc94d49b1d7ddfabfa55a4d33b97c2635c0efadeba750928f5384a13c