The season opens, as it always does, against Brown, this time in a 7 p.m. contest at Meehan Auditorium on October 29th. The following night is a home exhibition against the U.S. Under-18 National Team, and then the season begins in earnest with a road trip to Colgate and Cornell.

Among the many highlights on the home schedule is a date with Boston College on Tuesday November 16th and a December 11th rematch against national runner-up Maine. The Crimson plays another Hockey East foe, Boston University, at Walter Brown Arena on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

A long post-turkey trek to the North Country will be challenging, as will an appearance at the Mariucci Classic (commercially known as the Dodge Caravan Classic) against Northern Michigan and either Minnesota or Merrimack.

The Crimson will face Northeastern in the opening night of the Beanpot on February 7th, which creates the possibility that Harvard could end its long hiatus from competing for the Beanpot Championship.

—Staff writer Timothy M. McDonald can be reached at tmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu.