TROY, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's hockey team will play 38 regular season games during the 2021-22 season, including 18 at the Houston Field House. The schedule features four games against 2021 NCAA Tournament teams, as well as the Engineers' first ever meeting with Long Island University and their first trip to Alaska since 2015-16.

"This is the most exciting schedule release I can remember," said fifth-year head coach Dave Smith. "Our players will be able to have 18 home games next year in front our terrific fans at the Houston Field House. Our schedule has a great mix of non-league competition and a good balance of home and away. I am beyond excited to have the puck drop on the 2021-22 season."

The Engineers host Brock University in an exhibition game on Saturday, October 2, before opening the regular season at home with a two-game series against Bowling Green, on October 8 and 9. RPI continues its longest homestand of the year the following weekend, when Canisius visits the Houston Field House for Family Weekend (Oct. 15-16).

Rensselaer hits the road for the first time on October 23, when it heads to Burlington, Vt., to face Vermont for a single-game weekend.

ECAC Hockey play begins the final weekend of October, with RPI traveling to Union, before the Dutchmen visit Troy the following night (Oct. 28-29). Saturday is the annual "Black Out" game against Union.

North Country rivals St. Lawrence and Clarkson continue a mini-homestand for the Engineers (Nov. 4-5) as the calendar flips to November, before RPI embarks on its first full weekend road trip by heading to Colgate and Cornell (Nov. 12-13).

RPI will host Long Island University for the first time ever on November 19, with a return trip to the borough the next night. The Engineers will then play a home-and-home with Hockey East foe Northeastern on Thanksgiving Weekend, welcoming the Huskies to town (Nov. 26), before making the trip to Boston (Nov. 28).

The Engineers return to conference play for a single weekend (Dec. 3-4), when they host Quinnipiac and Princeton, before opening a stretch where they will play nine out of 10 away from home.

RPI visits Alaska for an extended weekend December 10-16, where they will face the Nanooks four times to close out the first half of the season. Vermont then officially closes out 2021 with a visit to the Houston Field House (Dec. 30), before the Engineers travel to Army for a non-league affair (Jan. 2).

Four straight road ECAC Hockey contests follow, with the Engineers opening their season series with Harvard and Dartmouth (Jan. 7-8) and closing their yearly series with Clarkson and St. Lawrence (Jan. 14-15).

The Engineers host Yale and Brown (Jan. 21-22) the weekend before the ninth playing of the Albany Mayor's Cup against Union at the Times Union Center (Jan. 29) – the final non-conference game on the schedule.

A road trip to Princeton and Quinnipiac (Feb. 4-5) kicks off the team's February, before Alumni Weekend follows against Cornell and Colgate (Feb. 11-12). The matchup with the Raiders will be the 44th Annual Big Red Freakout!

Rensselaer then travels to Brown and Yale (Feb. 18-19), before closing out the regular season against Dartmouth and Harvard at home (Feb. 25-26). The team will celebrate its graduating class against the Crimson.