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The 2020-21 Schedules Thread

Here's a small ray of hope that the plan is still to have a 2020-21 season - Wisconsin and Denver moved out their series to 21-22 due to Denver heading to Boston the weekend after and Wisconsin instead of playing LIU will play ASU. Wisconsin also flipped the NMU and MTU series so NMU will play Wisc 10/9 and 10/11. MTU will play Wisc 10/3-4.

Wisconsin's other non-conf games are Minn-Duluth 10/23-24 and the Holiday Faceoff 12/28-29.

Denver will also play ASU twice 10/9-10 AND 12/4-5.

With the above changes, this means the ASU and SCS series that was scheduled for Oct 10-11 has either been rescheduled to a different date or canceled since Denver is now playing ASU that weekend.
 
Can i ask where we get in the schedule docs that Minnesota is suppose to go to Niagara. I'm not sure Minnesota was ever schedule for a return date with Niagara.

As stated those in green are confirmed, those in black could be as simple as guesses which is the case here. I think it is common to put down a return trip as a guess when a team travels the year before. Like you said it is not likely to happen. Niagara is likely to have 3 road trips(2 games each) this season, North Dakota(confirmed) and Western Michigan in October and Notre Dame around New Years. Neither of the latter 2 are confirmed yet.
 
Ivy League schools are expected to make an announcement on Wednesday 7/8 regarding fall sports especially football which is rumored to start in the spring instead of the fall. I'm not sure if this will tell us much regarding the status of hockey for those schools since hockey is considered a winter sport and they don't start until November.

Yale announced that they were allowing 60% capacity giving upperclassmen priority. Harvard released a statement earlier today saying only 40% of the students will be allowed on campus this fall. Princeton followed suit saying freshmen and juniors allowed on campus in the fall and sophomores and seniors allowed on campus in the spring.
 
Schedule Changes:
BU is no longer going to Northern Michigan 10/16-17.
Northern Michigan will host Minnesota-Duluth 10/16-17.
BU likely replaced the NMU series with a series v LIU. (TBD)
Umass-Lowell is no longer going to Minnesota-Duluth and possibly UAH. It looks like they replaced these games v LIU and another team.
 
Ivy League schools are expected to make an announcement on Wednesday 7/8 regarding fall sports especially football which is rumored to start in the spring instead of the fall. I'm not sure if this will tell us much regarding the status of hockey for those schools since hockey is considered a winter sport and they don't start until November.

Yale announced that they were allowing 60% capacity giving upperclassmen priority. Harvard released a statement earlier today saying only 40% of the students will be allowed on campus this fall. Princeton followed suit saying freshmen and juniors allowed on campus in the fall and sophomores and seniors allowed on campus in the spring.

Stanford just dropped 11 sports to club status.
 
Ivy League update - Fall sports have been cancelled. Winter sports will have an update soon on practicing but will no ivy schools can play sports before Jan 1st.

We'll see how ECAC handles the schedules...
 
The Ivy League cancelled all fall sports. Not moved to spring, cancelled.


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Sources: Ivy League programs have been informed that fall sports have been cancelled. The conference will not entertain any sports being played until after January 1st. Winter sports will have an update in mid-July on their respective practice schedules.
 
Ivy League update - Fall sports have been cancelled. Winter sports will have an update soon on practicing but will no ivy schools can play sports before Jan 1st.

We'll see how ECAC handles the schedules...

Didn't RPI already cancel fall sports? With the way the Ivies started the ball rolling in March, I'm gonna say the rest of the ECAC will follow suit and that will probably trickle down to other leagues. Hopefully we can start things up in January for a shortened season.
 
Schedule Changes:
BU is no longer going to Northern Michigan 10/16-17.
Northern Michigan will host Minnesota-Duluth 10/16-17.
BU likely replaced the NMU series with a series v LIU. (TBD)
Umass-Lowell is no longer going to Minnesota-Duluth and possibly UAH. It looks like they replaced these games v LIU and another team.

Lowell went to Duluth last season. Duluth was supposed to come to Lowell this season, but has postponed it into the future. Lowell is not going to UAH or Arizona State this year either.
 
Lowell went to Duluth last season. Duluth was supposed to come to Lowell this season, but has postponed it into the future. Lowell is not going to UAH or Arizona State this year either.

Yes, you're right on Lowell and Duluth. Okay that confirms what I saw on UAH and thanks for the ASU info. That's a lot of non-conf games for Lowell to find last minute ... if there's a season of course.
 
Yes, you're right on Lowell and Duluth. Okay that confirms what I saw on UAH and thanks for the ASU info. That's a lot of non-conf games for Lowell to find last minute ... if there's a season of course.

Right, if there is a season. It could only be league games if the season takes place. What about the Mariucci that Lowell was scheduled to go to?
 
There probably won't be any college hockey this calendar year.

It's really hard for me to see any situation where some teams play and others don't. At this point the fall is gone and we have to hope we will get a season once the calendar turns.
 
Let's say it's a 2nd semester, league only season. That's easier for bus leagues like Hockey East and ECAC. But for other leagues you are adding the fear of flying element and the expenses that go with it.

And if you did have a league only season, would there even be a national tournament? Would the PWR still be used for this season? Or just everyone play for their league title and that's it?
 
Seems easy enough to set up a temporary regional league consisting of certain MA teams plus UConn, QPac, and UNH. Maine and UVM don't have nearly the distance issues the west has but they'd be looking at some really long day trips if they wanted in. Not even remotely concerned about post-season at this point.
 
Let's say it's a 2nd semester, league only season. That's easier for bus leagues like Hockey East and ECAC. But for other leagues you are adding the fear of flying element and the expenses that go with it.

And if you did have a league only season, would there even be a national tournament? Would the PWR still be used for this season? Or just everyone play for their league title and that's it?

The PWR doesn't exist without non-conference play.
 
That's basically what I was getting at/thinking. So would there even be a national tournament?

They would need to temporarily suspend/change the rules. Two possibilities would be: 1) reduce number of teams to 8 with each league able to determine who to send and a committee to determine the other 2. This would allow the tournament to take place in 1 or 2 weekends instead of 3. 2) 16 teams with each league picking two teams to send and committee selects remaining 4.
 
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