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Minnesota Duluth has added a home New Year’s Eve exhibition game against St. Thomas to its 2022-23 schedule, breaking up what was originally a 26-day layoff between regular season games over the holidays.
Puck drop for the Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022, game against the Tommies at Amsoil Arena has yet to be determined. It will be the Bulldogs’ first game against St. Thomas since Jan. 8, 1963, when UMD was an NCAA Division I independent. The Tommies made the jump from NCAA Division III and the MIAC to Division I and the CCHA a year ago.
This marks the second consecutive season the Bulldogs are playing another Division I team in an exhibition — last year UMD played Wisconsin in Chippewa Falls — instead of a Canadian university or the USA Hockey National Team Development Program. The NCAA started allowing exhibitions against other Division I opponents last season because of COVID-19 and made the rule change permanent this year.
The Bulldogs were scheduled to have three consecutive weekends off in December after hosting Denver in NCHC play on Dec. 9-10 at Amsoil Arena and playing Bemidji State in a nonconference home-and-home series Jan. 6 in Bemidji and Jan. 7 in Duluth.
