Minnesota State announced on Monday that its hockey teams will start the season without fans in the stands due to the rising rates of COVID-19 in the state, region and Mankato community. The policy is currently in effect through the end of the calendar year when it will be reevaluated.
This will effect men's series against Bemidji State (Nov. 27-28) and Northern Michigan (Dec. 11-12), both nonconference sets. Games will be available to watch with a FloHockey subscription, as well as on Charter-Spectrum channel 826, and to listen to on KTOE 1420 AM.
For the women's team, it will effect this weekend'sgames against Minnesota Duluth (Nov. 20-21) and a series against Bemidji State (Dec. 17-18).
Minnesota State announced it is working on other initiatives to allow fans to be part of the game-day experience, including cardboard cutouts to purchase and a virtual Chuck-a-Puck contest.
The Mavericks men's team will open the season at Bemidji State, although the series was pushed back a couple of days and will take place Sunday at 5 p.m. and Monday at 3 p.m. Bemidji State will not have fans in the stands for those games.
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