The Orange will face four teams that reached the NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament including the reigning National Champions during the 2014-15 schedule, which was released by head coach Paul Flanagan on Thursday. The schedule includes 18 home contests which will be held at Tennity Ice Pavilion and has Syracuse playing North Dakota, who ranked eighth in the last year’s final USCHO.com poll, for the first time in school history.
Highlighting this year’s schedule is a home-and-home series with Clarkson, the 2014 National Champion. The Golden Knights will travel to Syracuse on Saturday, October 25 for a 3 p.m. game after hosting the Orange on Friday afternoon.
In total, Syracuse will play four teams that went to the NCAA tournament including Boston College and Cornell who did not advance past the quarterfinals and CHA-foe Mercyhurst, which made its fourth Frozen Four appearance in the last six years.
SU starts the season off playing 12 of its first 14 games at home, beginning the year with a Thursday night matchup with Colgate. The Orange then travel to Boston College to play for the “ACC Championship” trophy, a tradition the teams started last season as the only two ACC member schools with women’s ice hockey.
‘Cuse hosts four straight non-conference games, inviting Northeastern, UNH, Providence and UConn to Tennity Ice Pavilion over the next two weeks. After traveling to Clarkson for the first game of the home-and-home series, Syracuse hosts seven straight home contests.
The team begins its College Hockey America schedule on Halloween against Penn State. The Orange then host Mercyhurst and Vermont for the next two weekends before beginning the bulk of its road games. SU plays 13 of the next 14 games at opponent sites, beginning with Robert Morris on November 21.
