Re: The 2019-20 Schedules Thread
Thanks everyone for the feedback so far!
RIT unveiled their schedule:
https://www.ritathletics.com/schedule.aspx?path=mhock
Looks like they have 2 extra OOC games this year unless they don't count icebreaker as OOC? Anyways this gives all of Colgate and Merrimack's OOC opponents.
Correct, Ice Breaker games are exempt from the 34 game limite. There are a few others. Here is the text from the NCAA Division 1 Manual:
17.13.5.3 Annual Exemptions. The maximum number of ice hockey contests shall exclude the following:
(Adopted: 1/16/93, 1/9/96 effective 8/1/96, Revised: 9/6/00, 2/24/03, 11/22/04, 1/14/08, 4/25/18)
(a) Conference Championship. Competition in one conference championship tournament in ice hockey (or the tournament used to determine the conference’s automatic entry in an NCAA ice hockey championship);
(b) Conference Playoff. Competition involving member institutions that tie for a conference championship. Such teams may participate in a single-elimination playoff to determine the conference’s automatic entry in an NCAA ice hockey championship without the game(s) being counted as a postseason tournament;
(c) NCAA Championships. Competition in the NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Championship and the National Collegiate Women’s Ice Hockey Championship;
(d) NCAA Championship Play-In Competition. Competition in play-in contests conducted before NCAA championships;
(e) Alumni Game. One ice hockey contest each year against an alumni team of the institution;
(f) Foreign Team in the United States. One ice hockey contest each year with a foreign opponent in the United States;
(g) Hall of Fame Game. The one ice hockey game between two Division I intercollegiate teams conducted by the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame;
(h) U.S. Olympic Team. One ice hockey contest each year against the U.S. Olympic ice hockey team during that team’s training for participation in the Winter Olympics;
(i) Hawaii or Alaska. Any games played in Hawaii or Alaska, respectively, against an active Division I member institution located in Hawaii or Alaska, by a member located outside the area in question;
(j) Fundraising Activity. Any ice hockey activities in which student-athletes from more than one of the institution’s athletics teams participate with and against alumni and friends of the institution, the purpose of which is to raise funds for the benefit of the institution’s athletics or other programs, provided the student-athletes do not miss classes as a result of their participation (see Bylaw 12.5.1.1);
(k) Celebrity Sports Activity. Competition involving a limit of two student-athletes from a member institution’s ice hockey team who participate in local celebrity ice hockey activities conducted for the purpose of raising funds for charitable organizations, provided:
(1) The student-athletes do not miss classes as a result of the participation;
(2) The involvement of the student-athletes has the approval of the institution’s athletics director; and
(3) The activity takes place within a 30-mile radius of the institution’s main campus.
(l) U.S. National Team. One game played against any team as selected and designated by the appropriate national governing body for ice hockey as a U.S. national team (e.g., “Under-21” U.S. national team); and
(m) Hockey Commissioners Association/Ice Breaker Tournaments. Competition in the men’s or women’s Ice Breaker Tournament sponsored by the Hockey Commissioners Association.