BURLINGTON, Vt. - Vermont head men's hockey coach
Todd Woodcroft unveiled the team's 2021-22 schedule on Monday afternoon. The Catamounts will play 19 home games this season with their season opener set for Saturday, October 2 at 7:35 p.m. as they host Mercyhurst in an exhibition.
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2021-22 Schedule
Hockey East Composite Schedule
- The Catamounts begin the season with seven-straight home games in October. UVM welcomes non-conference foes Colgate (October 8-9), Quinnipiac (October 16) and RPI (October 23) before turning to conference play. UVM will host Boston College on Friday, October 29 and Saturday October 30 at 7:05 p.m. to start their Hockey East campaign.
- Following that opening stretch UVM will play six of its next 10 games on the road. The Catamounts final home games of the fall semester come November 19 and 20 against Providence and December 11 and 12 with UMass Lowell. The matchup with the River Hawks will be a rematch of the 2021 Hockey East Opening Round.
- The weekend of January 28-29 will see some history in Gutterson Fieldhouse as the Catamounts face Alaska Fairbanks for the first time in program history. UVM will face the Nanooks at 7:05 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
- The Catamounts will host Merrimack in a rare Sunday afternoon tilt on Sunday, February 13 at 1:05 p.m. In a scheduling quirk, it will be the first of three straight games against the Warriors as UVM travels to North Andover for a two-game set the following weekend.
- The final regular season home games of the 2021-22 campaign will be against the defending NCAA and Hockey East Champion UMass Minutemen. The Catamounts will host UMass February 25-26 at 7:05 p.m.
- The Hockey East men's tournament will return to an all-in format after a two-year departure with single elimination games in each round. Seeds six, seven and eight will host seeds 11, 10 and nine in the Opening Round scheduled for Wednesday, March 9.
- After a reseeding, the top three seeds will host the winners of the Opening Round while the four seed will host the five seed in the Quarterfinals on Saturday, March 12.
- For the first time since 2019, the Hockey East Men's Championship Semifinals and Final will return to the TD Garden in Boston on March 18-19, 2022.
Handy Toyota is the presenting sponsor of the 2021-22 men's hockey season
