Looks like the Syracuse Invitational is back for 93-94.  Northeastern is
scheduled to play in it on Dec 29-30.  From the latest HE release, here are
the NC games listed for each of the 8 HE teams:
 
BC: Oct 22 US Olympic; Oct 30 @ Clarkson; Nov 5 Vermont; Nov 23 Dartmouth;
  Nov 28 Army; Dec 28-29 @ Denver tourney; Jan 4 Yale; Beanpot (2).
BU: Oct 23 North Dakota; Oct 30 @ Colgate; Nov 6 RPI; Nov 23 @ Cornell;
  Nov 27 Princeton; Dec 8 @ Brown; Dec 29-30 @ Auld Lang Syne Tourney;
  Beanpot (2).
Maine: Oct 29 Acadia (Canada); Nov 26-27 Dexter Tourney; Dec 10 UNH (at
  Portland); Dec 17-18 Ferris State; Dec 31-Jan 2 @ Mariucci Classic;
  Jan 3 vs Harvard (at Portland); Jan 14 @ Clarkson; Jan 15 @ SLU.
UML: Oct 29-30 @ Air Force; Nov 6 Colgate; Nov 26 @ Union; Nov 28 @
  Vermont; Dec 29-30 @ RPI Inv (still listed at time of release); Jan 9
  Army; Jan 25 Brown; Feb 5 @ Yale.
Merr: Oct 23 UMass; Oct 29 @ RPI; Oct 31 Army; Nov 5 Colgate; Nov 6
  Dartmouth; Nov 24 @ Vermont; Nov 26-27 @ National Capital Tourney
  (Ottawa); Jan 1-2 @ UAH; Feb 6 @ UMass.
UNH: Oct 22-23 @ Dalhousie (Canada); Oct 29 SLU; Oct 30 Vermont; Nov 5-6
  @ Air Force; Nov 16 @ RPI; Nov 26-27 @ Great Western Freezeout; Dec 10
  Maine (at Portland); Dec 29-30 @ Auld Lang Syne Tourney.
NU: Oct 22 North Dakota; Nov 5-6 @ Illinois-Chicago; Nov 26 @ Dartmouth;
  Dec 29-30 @ Syr Inv; Jan 2 @ Yale; Jan 16 Cornell; Beanpot (2).
PC: Oct 16 Army; Oct 29 Vermont; Oct 30 Concordia (Canada); Nov 27 UAH;
  Nov 29 Brown; Dec 28-29 @ Badger Showdown; Jan 1-2 @ Air Force; Jan 14
  @ SLU; Jan 15 @ Clarkson.
 
With HE having 24 regular season games, note that 4 of the 8 teams have
scheduled more than 10 NC games:
 
Maine (11) will host Acadia, likely under the foreign country rule.  This
 game should count towards overall record.
Merrimack (11) will play two in Canada at the Ottawa tourney, likely
 meeting a Canadian team in the first round and counting it as a trip
 to a foreign country (allowable once every four years).  This means it
 shouldn't count in its overall record.  Colgate and two Canadian teams
 also appear in this tourney.
UNH (12) will play two at Dalhousie, both under the same rule as Merrimack.
 They shouldn't count towards overall record.
PC (11) will host Concordia, same situation as Maine.
 
Note that when you invoke the host-a-team-from-a-foreign-country rule, you
can count the game towards overall record, but when you invoke the one that
allows you to travel abroad once every four years and play games, you
cannot count them.  Unless things have changed.
 
Among interesting games above, the PC/Maine vs SLU/Clarkson rematch in the
North Country will allow each team to play two opponents that weekend.
Last year, PC hosted SLU for 2 and Maine hosted Clarkson for 2.  Also, the
day after Maine concludes the Mariucci Classic (Jan 2), they are scheduled
to play Harvard in Portland.  That should be an interesting matchup between
what were probably the two best teams in their conferences last year, but
I'm wondering how Maine is going to fare with the cross country journey and
only a day between games.
 
The release says that in 93-94, UMass will play such HE teams "as the
league schedule permits," but it appears that the only HE team they'll be
playing is Merrimack - twice.
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Mike Machnik    [log in to unmask]   Color Voice of the Merrimack Warriors
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