Alaska Anchorage hockey to open season against defending national champion Denver
The University of Alaska Anchorage men’s hockey team will open its 2026-27 season at home against defending national champion Denver in a two-game series scheduled for Oct. 9 and Oct. 10 at the Avis Alaska Sports Complex in Anchorage.
The announcement sets an early major opponent for the UAA Seawolves and brings the Denver Pioneers back to Anchorage for the second time in three seasons. Alaska Sports Report reported the scheduled opening series on July 22.
Denver is identified as the defending national champion. The series is the first confirmed piece of UAA’s upcoming season schedule in the available report, although that report does not include the Seawolves’ full 2026-27 slate.
Two October games in Anchorage
UAA and Denver are scheduled to play on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, and Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. Both games are set for the Avis Alaska Sports Complex, giving the Seawolves a home opening in Anchorage against a nationally prominent college hockey opponent.
The dates are scheduled game dates, not results. No game has been played in the 2026 series, and the available report does not provide start times or ticket details.
The announcement identifies UAA as the home team for the series and Denver as the visiting opponent. It also identifies the matchup as the season opener for Alaska Anchorage’s men’s hockey program.
Return visit follows prior Denver sweep
The October games will mark the second Denver-UAA series in Anchorage in three seasons. In the earlier Anchorage meeting cited in the report, Denver won both contests, 6-2 and 4-1.
Those scores describe the prior series only. They establish the results of Denver’s previous trip to Anchorage but do not forecast the outcome of the newly scheduled Oct. 9-10 games.
The return series gives UAA another home meeting with Denver after that earlier two-game set. For the Seawolves, it places a defending national champion at the front of the 2026-27 schedule. For Denver, it creates a scheduled October road series in Anchorage.
What the announcement confirms
The confirmed details are the opponent, the two dates and the Anchorage venue: UAA will host Denver at the Avis Alaska Sports Complex on Oct. 9 and Oct. 10. The report also confirms Denver’s defending-national-champion designation and the programs’ recent Anchorage series history.
The available reporting does not include ticket-sale information, game times or the remainder of UAA’s 2026-27 schedule. It also provides no roster information, coaching decisions, rankings or attendance projections connected to the October series.
Those omissions leave several details to be announced later, but they do not change the scheduled opener. The next known dates for the two programs are Oct. 9 and Oct. 10, when the Seawolves are set to face Denver in Anchorage.
The series is a scheduled regular-season opening matchup. It should not be characterized as an NCAA tournament game.