CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard men's hockey announced its 2025-26 schedule today, featuring 15 games at Bright-Landry, including highly anticipated matchups against Cornell, Boston University, and Michigan — all coming to Cambridge.
Next season, the Crimson returns leading scorers Casey Severo, Joe Miller, and Ivy League Rookie of the Year Mick Thompson up front, while veteran defensemen Ryan Healey and Mason Langenbrunner anchor the blue line.
The Crimson will open the 2025-26 season with an exhibition matchup against Northeastern in its final trip to historic Matthews Arena. Since 1963, Harvard has gone 9-4 at Matthews Arena as it looks to begin the season with a win in one of the oldest arenas in the country. Last season, Mason Langenbrunner scored twice against the Huskies in the Beanpot third-place game, becoming the first Crimson defenseman since at least 2002-03 to have two goals in a single game at the Beanpot.
Harvard opens the regular season on the road at UConn on Friday, Oct. 31, marking the first of seven non-conference games this season. The Crimson have now played UConn in three consecutive seasons and have opened the regular season on the road in two of the last three years.
The Crimson will then open its home slate with Stonehill on Nov. 4 before hosting rival Cornell and Colgate on Nov. 7–8. Opening the ECAC season with one of its biggest games of the year, Harvard fell to the eventual ECAC champions in a shootout on home ice last season.
Hitting the road for its first trip of the season, Harvard will head to the North Country to take on Clarkson and St. Lawrence the following weekend. Harvard forced a game three in the ECAC Quarterfinals last season after a Casey Severo goal in overtime helped set up a win-or-go-home game at Cheel Arena. Mick Thompson scored a shorthanded goal early in game three, but the Golden Knights scored once in the third and once in overtime as the 2024-25 season came to a close.
In its second non-conference game of the season, Harvard will travel to Burlington for the first time since 2017 to take on the Catamounts at Gutterson Fieldhouse. Since Vermont left the ECAC after the 2004-05 season, the Crimson have played them only five times.
Harvard then returns home for another big matchup as the Crimson welcomes the Michigan Wolverines to Bright-Landry after Thanksgiving. In a two-game series, Harvard will host the Big Ten opponent to complete their series after the Crimson traveled to Ann Arbor in the 2022-23 season. Harvard tied the opener 4-4 before falling to the No. 5 Wolverines by a score of 4-1, with now-senior captain Joe Miller scoring two goals over the two games at Yost Ice Arena.
Following Thanksgiving, the Crimson returns to ECAC play as it hosts Ivy rivals Yale and Brown heading into the winter break. Last season, Harvard went 3-0-1 in four games against the Bears and Bulldogs.
After the winter break, Harvard resumes play on the road with a trip to Quinnipiac on Jan. 2 before playing Princeton on Jan. 3. Last season, the Crimson opened its road schedule with the Tigers, staging a third-period comeback and forcing overtime when Mick Thompson scored his first career goal with time expiring in the extra frame. Closing out the road trip the following weekend, Harvard will travel to Hanover to play Dartmouth before returning home for a busy week.
The Crimson then hosts Boston University on Jan. 12 in a midweek matchup just ahead of Beanpot season. Harvard played the Terriers twice last season — once in the preseason and once in the first round of the Beanpot. The following weekend, St. Lawrence and Clarkson come to Bright-Landry before a Monday matchup with Union on Jan. 19 to close out a stretch of four games in seven days.
Harvard then travels west to take on Colgate and Cornell on Jan. 24 and 25, before returning to Cambridge to play RPI on Jan. 30 in the last tune-up before the Beanpot.
The Crimson will open the first round of the Beanpot against Boston College on Feb. 2 at TD Garden. Harvard will face the Eagles in the first round for the first time since 2023, when Marek Hejduk scored the overtime winner to send Harvard to the finals. The Crimson will welcome Dartmouth in between Beanpot games, on Friday, before returning to the Garden on Monday to play either Boston University or Northeastern.
The Crimson opens the final stretch of the regular season with four straight road games, beginning with a trip to Brown and Yale on Feb. 13–14 before heading to Union and RPI in the final road trip of the regular season.
Harvard will host Princeton and Quinnipiac in the final weekend before the ECAC playoffs begin.
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