Merrimack Hockey Tickets for Saturday Limited

remained number 1 in the country in both hockey polls, earning 82 of a possible 84 first-place votes, including a unanimous number 1 selection in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll.

The smallest school in all of Division I college hockey, Merrimack received all 34 first-place votes in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll and 48 out of 50 first-place nods in the USCHO poll.

Following a 6-0 win over Alabama-Huntsville, Merrimack is the first college hockey team to enter December unbeaten in 15 years and likely since Maine in 1992 with a 9-0-1 overall record.

In fact, there is no college hockey team in the country with fewer than three losses besides the Warriors.

Merrimack (9-0-1, 5-0-1 HEA) takes on Providence in a home-and-home series this weekend.

Friday’s game at Schneider Arena in Providence will be televised live on COX at 7 p.m. Check back at merrimackathletics.com later this week for broadcast information for Saturday.

Less than 500 tickets remain for Saturday’s game at Lawler Arena, which has been sold out for all five home games this year and 10 straight dating back to last year.

Merrimack has been the nation’s toughest team at home since the beginning of 2009-10 inside a renovated Lawler Arena. The Warriors are 30-5-3 in that span, 12-0-1 in their last 12, fueled by an average student attendance of 700, approximately 33% of the College’s enrollment.