2011-12 Schedule Announced
16 Games Slated For Ingalls
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – There will be at least 16 opportunities to see the 2011-12 Yale Men's Hockey Team skate against Division I opponents at Ingalls Rink. The Bulldogs, who made it to the NCAA Regional final the last two winters and won a school-record 28 games last year, announced their new, 31-contest schedule today.
The Elis, who led the nation with a school-record 17-1-1 home mark in 2010-11, will have Ingalls rocking the first weekend of regular-season play in November. After giving fans an Oct. 22 preview against Waterloo and then going to Hanover for the Ivy Shootout, the Blue hosts Cornell and Colgate on Nov. 4-5 to open ECAC Hockey play.
The 2011-12 slate includes nine games against opponents ranked among the top 20 by ucho.com last season. The new schedule also includes 4 p.m. games at Ingalls Rink against Boston College (Nov. 26) and Bentley (Jan. 1). The rest are 7 p.m. opening faceoffs.
The Blue, winners of two of the last three ECAC regular season titles, begins conference tournament play on March 2 with hopes of defending its 2011 championship at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall.
For the second straight March, and the third time in four years, Yale co-hosts the NCAA East Regional at Webster Bank's Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Conn. Meanwhile, the Bulldogs, who get a look at Harbor Yard on Nov. 22 against Sacred Heart, aim to compete in their fourth straight NCAA regional.
2011-12 Schedule
Date Opponent Time
Oct. 22 WATERLOO (Scrimmage) 7:00
Oct. 28 vs. Princeton# 4:00
Oct. 29 vs. Dartmouth/ Brown# 4/7:00
Nov. 4 CORNELL* 7:00
Nov. 5 COLGATE* 7:00
Nov. 11 at Rensselaer* 7:00
Nov. 12 at Union* 7:00
Nov. 19 UCONN 7:00
Nov. 22 at Sacred Heart (Harbor Yard) 7:00
Nov. 26 BOSTON COLLEGE 4:00
Dec. 1 BROWN* 7:00
Dec. 3 at Brown* 7:00
Dec. 7 at UMass 7:00
Dec. 28 RUSSIAN TOURING TEAM (Exh) 7:00
Jan. 1 BENTLEY 4:00
Jan. 6 QUINNIPIAC* 7:00
Jan. 7 PRINCETON* 7:00
Jan. 13 at Clarkson* 7:00
Jan. 14 at St. Lawrence* 7:00
Jan. 20 UNION* 7:00
Jan. 21 RENSSELAER* 7:00
Jan. 27 at Harvard* 7:00
Jan. 28 at Dartmouth* 7:00
Feb. 3 ST. LAWRENCE* 7:00
Feb. 4 CLARKSON* 7:00
Feb. 10 at Colgate* 7:00
Feb. 11 at Cornell* 7:00
Feb. 17 DARTMOUTH* 7:00
Feb. 18 HARVARD* 7:00
Feb. 24 at Princeton* 7:00
Feb. 25 at Quinnipiac* 7:00
Mar 2-4 ECAC Hockey 1st Round Playoffs (campus)
Mar 9-11 ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals (campus)
Mar 16-17 ECAC Hockey Championships (Atlantic City, NJ)
Mar 23-25 NCAA Regionals@
April 5-7 Frozen Four (Tampa, FL)
*ECAC Hockey Games
# Ivy Shootout (non-league contests at Dartmouth)
@ Yale and Fairfield co-host the 2011 NCAA East Regional at Webster Bank's Arena at Harbor Yard
Times Subject to Change
