HOUGHTON, Mich. -- The third annual Superior Showcase, the 45th annual Great Lakes Invitational and a Winter Carnival series vs. Minnesota Duluth highlight Michigan Tech’s upcoming men’s ice hockey schedule, which was announced today by head coach Jamie Russell.

The Huskies’ 2009-10 schedule consists of 34 regular season games including 28 Western Collegiate Hockey Association tilts.

Tech opens with a home preseason game vs. Ryerson on Oct. 3. The regular season opener will come at the John MacInnes Student Ice Arena vs. arch rival Northern Michigan Oct. 9 as part of the Superior Showcase. The Huskies will host Lake Superior State as part of the event two days later.

WCHA play will commence Oct. 23-24 with a trip to Colorado College. Tech’s annual Hall of Fame game will be played against North Dakota Nov. 7.

The 45th annual GLI will take place Dec. 29-30 with the Huskies battling Michigan State in a semifinal. Michigan and RPI are the other teams involved in the nation’s premier holiday college hockey tournament.

Michigan Tech will entertain Northern Michigan in a rare weekday matchup Tuesday, Jan. 12, which will wrap up a three-game season series with the Wildcats (the other Tech-Northern game is Friday, Dec. 18, in Marquette).

Winter Carnival will be held Feb. 5-6, with UMD coming to battle for the MacInnes Cup. As with Carnival tradition, the Saturday game will start at 5:07 p.m. Tech will use that same format (Friday at 7:07 p.m. and Saturday at 5:07 p.m.) for the Jan. 15-16 series vs. Alaska Anchorage and the Jan. 29-30 set vs. Minnesota State.

Tech will wrap up its regular season March 5-6 in North Dakota. The WCHA Playoffs will begin the following weekend with the league’s Red Baron Final Five to take place March 18-20.

The full schedule can be found by clicking here.