RPI to open hockey season vs. national finalist Ferris State

TROY — TROY — The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute men’s hockey team will host NCAA Frozen Four finalist Ferris State in a two-game series to open the 2012-13 regular season, the Engineers announced Monday.

The games against the Bulldogs, who beat Union, 3-1, in the semifinals April 5 before losing to Boston College, 4-1, in the championship game two days later, will be played Oct. 12-13 at 7 p.m.

The Engineers open the ECAC Hockey portion of their schedule Nov. 2 when they host Union at 7 p.m., which will also be the Black Friday jersey night. The two teams play the following night at Messa Rink. The two teams will play a non-conference game Jan. 26 at the Times Union Center.

RPI will play a 4 p.m. New Year’s Eve game against Sacred Heart at Houston Field House.

RPI will make two trips to the state of Minnesota. The Engineers will be at Minnesota State Oct. 19-20 and at St. Cloud State Dec. 27-28.

The Engineers will have two games at Hockey East schools — Boston University at 7 p.m. Jan. 4, and New Hampshire at 4 p.m. Jan. 6.

2012-13 RPI MEN’S SCHEDULE

Home games in CAPS

e-Denotes ECAC Hockey game

OCTOBER

6 — ACADIA (exhibition), 7; 12 —

FERRIS STATE, 7; 13 — FERRIS STATE, 7; 19 — at Minnesota State, 8; 20 — at Minnesota State, 8.

NOVEMBER

e-2 — UNION, 7 (Black Friday);

e-3 — at Union, 7; e-9 — at Dartmouth, 7; e-10 — at Harvard, 7; 16 —

MERCYHURST, 7; 17 — MERCYHURST, 7; e-30 — PRINCETON, 7.

DECEMBER

e-1 — QUINNIPIAC, 7; e-7 at Yale, 7; e-8 — at Brown, 4; 27 — at

St. Cloud State, 8; 28 — at St. Cloud State, 8; 31 — SACRED HEART, 4.

JANUARY

4 — at Boston U, 7; 6 — at New Hampshire, 4; e-11 — at Quinnipiac, 7; e-12 — at Princeton, 4; e-18 — COLGATE, 7; e-19 — CORNELL, 7; 26 — vs. Union at Times Union Center, 7.

FEBRUARY

e-1 — HARVARD, 7; e-2 — DARTMOUTH (Big Red Freakout), 7; e-8 — at St. Lawrence, 7; e-9 at Clarkson, 7; e-15 — BROWN, 7; e-16 — YALE (Whiteout), 7; e-22 — at Cornell, 7; e-23 — at Colgate, 7.

MARCH

e-1 — CLARKSON, 7; e-2 —

ST. LAWRENCE, 7.

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