Anchorage Daily News

UAA released its 2008-09 hockey schedule Thursday. The 30th season of Seawolf hockey starts with the Kendall Hockey Classic Oct. 10-11.

Joining five-time tournament champion UAA at the 18th edition of the Classic are Connecticut, Northeastern and UAF.

The Seawolves play in the inaugural Alaska Goal Rush tournament in Fairbanks the second weekend of the season (Oct. 17-18), where they'll face two more eastern schools -- Maine and Mercyhurst.

UAA's 34-game schedule includes 18 home dates and two in-season tournaments. The Seawolves, who will play six non-conference games against five different opponents, alternate home and road series the entire season with no back-to-back series on the slate.

The annual Governor's Cup series between UAA and the Nanooks will be two games, the first played Feb. 27 at UAF and the second Feb. 28 at Sullivan Arena.

The 16th season of Western Collegiate Hockey Association play for UAA begins Oct. 24-25 as it hosts Minnesota-Duluth.

Not making the trip to Anchorage are Minnesota and Denver, while UAA won't make outings to Colorado College and St. Cloud State.

UAA plays two exhibition games during the preseason, as it hosts the U.S. National Under-18 Team (Sept. 25) and the University of British Columbia (Oct. 4). Both exhibition tilts will be at the Menard Memorial Arena in Wasilla.

All Seawolf home games, with the exception of the Kendall Hockey Classic, will face off at 7:07 p.m.

2008-09 UAA Hockey Schedule

Home games in bold

Sept. 25U.S. National U-18 Team (Wasilla)

Oct. 4British Columbia (Wasilla)

Oct. 10KENDALL HOCKEY CLASSIC

Northeastern vs. UAF

Connecticut vs. UAA

Oct. 11KENDALL HOCKEY CLASSIC

Connecticut vs. UAF

Northeastern vs. UAA

Oct. 17Maine (at UAF Tournament)

Oct. 18Mercyhurst (at UAF Tournament)

Oct. 24-25Minnesota Duluth

Oct. 31-Nov. 1at Michigan Tech

Nov. 7-8Minnesota State-Mankato

Nov. 14-15at North Dakota

Nov. 21-22Colorado College

Dec. 5-6at Wisconsin

Jan. 9-10Wisconsin

Jan. 16-17at Minnesota State-Mankato

Jan. 23-24Michigan Tech

Jan. 30-31at Denver

Feb. 6-7St. Cloud State

Feb. 13-14at Minnesota

Feb. 20-21North Dakota

Feb. 27at UAF

Feb. 28UAF

Mar. 6-7at Minnesota-Duluth

Mar. 13-15WCHA First Round Playoffs

Mar. 19-21WCHA Final Five, St. Paul, Minn.

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