2013-14 Northeastern men's hockey schedule

BOSTON - The Northeastern men's hockey team announced its 34-game slate for the upcoming 2013-14 season today (June 11). Head coach Jim Madigan and the Huskies will play in 14 non-conference match-ups with 20 league games, in the first season of the new Hockey East schedule format. Also included in the schedule is three in-season tournaments, including the 62nd annual Beanpot Tournament. NU will also make its second all-time appearance in an outdoor contest as it participates in the 2014 Frozen Fenway festivities.

"This year's schedule presents a strong challenge," Madigan said. "We're very excited to for all components of this upcoming year and look to reposition ourselves in the Hockey East standings."

Northeastern's schedule features 14 home contests at Matthews Arena, including ten home conference games. The Huskies will make three trips outside of New England, including two to Indiana (Notre Dame) and one to New York (Canton).

NON-CONFERENCE
For the first time since opening at Colorado College in 2009-10, the Huskies will begin their season with a non-conference game. With six non-league games to open the season, NU will see its most action without a Hockey East opponent since opening with seven in a row out of league back in 2004-05. Prior to that, Dalhousie visits Boston on Saturday, Oct. 5 for a preseason contest. The contest marks the fifth straight year NU will host a school from Canada in an exhibition game. Last year, St. Francis Xavier skated to a 4-3 victory in the preseason skirmish at Matthews Arena.

After its initial six game non-conference stretch to open the year, the Huskies will also play non-HEA games with regular league foes Massachusetts and Vermont in January. UMass and Vermont were the last two teams to join Hockey East before Notre Dame joined this season, with the Catamounts joining in 2005 and the Minutemen in 1994. NU played non-league games most recently with UMass in 1977 and Vermont in 2004.

TOURNAMENTS
Northeastern will play in three regular season tournaments in 2013-14, including the 62nd rendition of the annual Beanpot Tournament. The first two Monday's in February fall on Feb. 3 and Feb. 10, with Northeastern taking on Harvard in semifinal action before they square off with Boston College or Boston University on Feb. 10 at the TD Garden. The Huskies will also travel to Notre Dame, Ind., to participate in Notre Dame's Shillelagh Tournament on Nov. 29-30, taking on Western Michigan in the first matchup followed by a tilt against either ND or Alabama-Huntsville.

A month later the Huskies will look to bring home the Ledyard National Bank Tournament title again, winning the Dartmouth-hosted tournament the last time they participated back in 2009. NU joins a field in Hanover, N.H., that includes Air Force, Providence and Dartmouth on Dec. 29-30. Northeastern combats Air Force in the opening game and play either Dartmouth or PC the following day. Overall, NU has won its last two non-Beanpot in-season tournaments, winning the Mariucci Classic in Minneapolis in 2011 and the Ledyard in 2009.

HOCKEY EAST
The Huskies will face a 20-game league schedule this season, as the league schedule shifts with Notre Dame's arrival this year (Connecticut will join HEA in 2014-15). The Red and Black take on every league foe twice, playing ten home games and ten away games. The Hockey East schedule is bookended with cross-town rivals, opening with a trip to Boston College on Nov. 1 and closing with a visit from Boston University on March 1. NU will have home-and-home series with all but two HEA schools, hosting Maine twice and making a two-game trip to Notre Dame. The Huskies' home game with UMass-Lowell will be played at Fenway Park on Jan. 14, 2014.

The Hockey East Tournament first round takes place on campus sites from March 7-9. The quarterfinals, also on campus sites, take place from March 14-16 before the Hockey East Championship round at the TD Garden on March 21 and 22. Unlike in the past, all 11 Hockey East constituents will qualify for the 2013-14 postseason.

Here is a quick primer on each of Northeastern's 2013-14 opponents:

	BOSTON COLLEGE EAGLES *
	All-time series	47-158-14
	Last meeting	2/11/13, 3-1 BC win (Beanpot final)
	2012-13 record	22-12-4 (15-9-3 HEA)
	2013-14 dates	Nov. 1 (A), Nov. 2 (H), Feb. 10 (Beanpot)
	Of note: The last two times Boston College has visited Matthews Arena as the nation's No. 1 overall team, the Huskies have come away victorious, most recently on Oct. 13, 2012.

	BOSTON UNIVERSITY TERRIERS *
	All-time series	57-148-14
	Last meeting	3/9/13, 5-0 BU
	2012-13 record	21-16-2 (15-10-2 HEA)
	2013-14 dates	Feb. 10 (Beanpot), Feb. 28 (A), March 1 (H)
	Of note: Northeastern's 3-1 win against BU in the 2013 Beanpot was its first victory the tournament over BU since 1988. The first game in 2013-14 against BU will be the first time Northeastern has faced a Terrier coach besides Jack Parker since Jan. 23, 1973.

	DARTMOUTH COLLEGE BIG GREEN
	All-time series	26-31-0
	Last meeting	1/2/10, 7-0 NU
	2012-13 record	15-14 (9-9-4 ECAC)
	2013-14 dates	Dec. 30 (A, at Ledyard National Bank Tournament)
	Of note:  Northeastern has won five in a row against Dartmouth, and is unbeaten in the series since 1992. Seven different NU players scored in a 7-0 shellacking the last time the teams met in 2010.

	HARVARD CRIMSON
	All-time series	34-65-0
	Last meeting	12/29/12, 5-1 NU
	2012-13 record	10-19-3 (6-14-2 ECAC)
	2013-14 dates	Feb. 3 (Beanpot first round)
	Of note: Northeastern's Cody Ferriero scored four goals against Harvard in the non-conference tilt last season. The Huskies last faced the Crimson in the first round of the Beanpot in 2011, a 4-0 Northeastern victory.

	HOLY CROSS CRUSADERS
	All-time series	4-2-0
	Last meeting	10/29/10, 4-3 HC
	2012-13 record	20-14-3 (15-9-3 AHA)
	2013-14 dates	Oct. 18 (A), Oct. 19 (H)
	Of note: Former Husky Jason Guerrero ('05) is currently an assistant coach on head coach Paul Pearl's staff at Holy Cross. Madigan has never faced HC in his career.

	MAINE BLACK BEARS *
	All-time series	38-55-18
	Last meeting	3/2/13, 4-4 T
	2012-13 record	11-19-8 (7-12-8 HEA)
	2013-14 dates	Feb. 21 (H), Feb. 22 (A)
	Of note: The last time Northeastern hosted Maine twice in a season without visiting Orono was in the 1991-92 season. 2013-14 will mark the first year for new Maine head coach Red Gendron.

	MASSACHUSETTS MINUTEMEN *
	All-time series	43-25-10
	Last meeting	2/19/13, 5-4 NU
	2012-13 record	12-19-3 (9-16-2 HEA)
	2013-14 dates	Jan. 4 (H, NC), Feb. 7 (H), Feb. 15 (A)
	Of note: Northeastern has not played Massachusetts in a non-conference tilt since 17 years prior to UMass' 1994 arrival in Hockey East. Last year, current Husky captain Josh Manson scored his first career goal, an overtime winner, in the Huskies' 5-4 victory on Feb. 19.

	UMASS LOWELL RIVER HAWKS *
	All-time series	40-57-7
	Last meeting	1/26/13, 5-4 UML
	2012-13 record	28-11-2 (16-9-2 HEA)
	2013-14 dates	Nov. 9 (A), Jan. 11 (H, at Fenway Park)
	Of note: UML reached its first Frozen Four in program history in 2012-13, also winning the Hockey East regular season and Hockey East tournament titles. The game at Fenway Park will mark Northeastern's second trip to Yawkey Way, after falling 2-1 to Boston College at Fenway on Jan. 14, 2012.

	MERRIMACK WARRIORS *
	All-time series	47-39-10
	Last meeting	11/3/12, 4-3 MC
	2012-13 record	15-17-6 (13-11-3 HEA)
	2013-14 dates	Nov. 22 (A), Nov. 23 (H)
	Of note: 2013-14 will be the third straight season NU and MC will conclude their regular season series before December. Merrimack assistant coach Curtis Carr was the former head coach of the USHL's Youngstown Phantoms, where he coached current Husky forward Ryan Belonger.

	NEW HAMPSHIRE WILDCATS *
	All-time series	58-91-15
	Last meeting	2/1/13, 3-1 UNH
	2012-13 record	20-12-7 (13-8-6 HEA)
	2013-14 dates	Nov. 15 (H), Nov. 16 (A)
	Of note: UNH made its 21st NCAA tournament appearance in 2012-13, including a run of six consecutive from 2002-2007. Head Coach Dick Umile has compiled a 45-14-13 against NU in his 23 seasons at the helm of the Wildcats.

	NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH *
	All-time series	4-3-1
	Last meeting	12/3/11, 2-1 NU
	2012-13 record	25-13-3 (17-8-3 CCHA)
	2013-14 dates	Nov. 30 (A, at Shillelagh Tournament in South Bend, Ind.), Jan. 24 (A), Jan. 25 (A)
	Of note: Northeastern has never played a conference opponent on the road twice in one season without hosting them, as they will do with Notre Dame this season. The Huskies are 3-1 all time in South Bend, including posting the first ever victory for a road team at ND's Compton Family Ice Arena. That was a 9-2 NU decision on Dec. 2, 2011.

	PROVIDENCE COLLEGE FRIARS *
	All-time series	51-79-16
	Last meeting	2/23/13, 3-2 PC
	2012-13 record	17-14-7 (13-8-6 HEA)
	2013-14 dates	Dec. 6 (H), Dec. 30 (at Ledyard National Bank Tournament in Hanover, N.H.), Jan. 7 (A)
	Of note: Northeastern and Providence last played in a regular season tournament, as they might in 2013-14, in the RPI Tournament in 1975. The Friars swept the season series with the Huskies last year for the first time since 2000-01.

	ST. LAWRENCE SAINTS
	All-time series	14-13-2
	Last meeting	11/23/12, 5-2 SLU
	2012-13 record	18-16-4 (9-9-4 ECAC)
	2013-14 dates	Oct. 25 (A), Oct. 26 (A)
	Of note: 2013-14 will mark the first time NU has ever played back-to-back games at SLU, where the Huskies have cobbled together a 5-3-1 record at Appleton Arena. Current assistant captain Dax Lauwers scored his first career goal as a Husky in the Saints' victory last season.

	VERMONT CATAMOUNTS *
	All-time series	20-27-5
	Last meeting	2/16/13, 3-1 UVM
	2012-13 record	11-19-6 (8-13-6 HEA)
	2013-14 dates	Dec. 17 (A), Jan. 17 (H), Jan. 18 (H, NC)
	Of note: The Dec. 17 game between NU and UVM will be played on a Tuesday, as was the first ever contest between the teams on Jan. 7. 1969. Kevin Roy tallied his first of five multi-goal games last season against the Catamounts on Nov. 18.

	WESTERN MICHIGAN BRONCOS
	All-time series	3-1-0
	Last meeting	1/2/09, 3-1 NU
	2012-13 record	19-11-8 (15-7-6 CCHA)
	2013-14 dates	Dec. 29 (at Shillelagh Tournament in South Bend, Ind.)
	Of note: Three out of the four times Northeastern has played Western Michigan, it has been at an in-season tournament (2-1 record). The Broncos will join the newly minted National College Hockey Conference for the 2013-14 season.

* indicates a Hockey East Association opponent. All games with HEA opponents are league games, unless otherwise noted.