WORCESTER, Mass. - The Holy Cross men's ice hockey team has announced its 34-game regular season schedule for the 2025-26 season. The Crusaders will play eight non-conference games and 26 Atlantic Hockey games.
 
The team will open the new season on the road against Hockey East's Northeastern on Saturday, Oct. 4 at Matthews Arena. A week later, the Crusaders will travel to Orono, Maine to take on another Hockey East opponent in Maine. The two-game set on Friday, Oct. 10 and Saturday, Oct. 11 will be the first meeting between the two teams since the 2003-04 season.

Atlantic Hockey play begins for the Crusaders with a single game matchup at Mercyhurst on Saturday, Oct. 18, before Holy Cross hosts their home opener on Tuesday, Oct. 21 against the ECAC's Quinnipiac.
 
Atlantic Hockey matchups continue for the Crusaders beginning with a two game set at Army (Oct. 24-25), home sets against Sacred Heart (Oct. 30-31) and Niagara (Nov. 7-8), and a trip to Air Force (Nov. 14-15). Holy Cross will play three non-conference games in Alaska-Anchorage (Nov. 20-21) and a single-game at Quinnipiac (Nov. 26), before finishing out the first half with a single Atlantic Hockey matchup against Mercyhurst (Dec. 6).
 
Holy Cross will hit the ground running after the holiday break with a home-and-home rematch of the Atlantic Hockey Championship game on Friday, Jan. 2 at Bentley and Saturday, Jan. 3 at home against the reigning champions. The final non-conference game of the season will be on Saturday, Jan. 10 at the Hart Center against Hockey East's Merrimack.
 
The final stretch of the 2025-26 regular season includes two-game road sets at Robert Morris (Jan. 23-24), Canisius (Feb. 13-14), and Sacred Heart (Feb. 20-21), home sets against Air Force (Jan. 16-17), Army (Jan. 29-30), and RIT (Feb. 27-28), and a home-and-home with Bentley (Feb. 6-7).

The Atlantic Hockey Tournament will begin on March 3 with the 7-10 seeds facing off in play-in matchups and culminate with the championship game on March 21.

Fans can catch every Atlantic Hockey regular season conference contest along with the entirety of the AHA tournament and select non-conference contests on FloHockey.tv. Fans interested in season ticket packages should place their deposit today.

All dates and opponents are subject to change.

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