The Kenai River Brown Bears open the regular season in the North American Hockey League on home ice at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex on Friday night. Game time is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. as the Brown Bears will face the New Jersey Titans in the first game of a two-game series. The Brown Bears and Titans face-off on Saturday, also at 7:30 p.m.
Showcase Tournament
The Brown Bears opened the season at the North American Hockey League Showcase, finishing 0-3-1 for the tournament. The Brown Bears fell 3-2 to the Minnesota Wilderness in the final game on Saturday in Blaine, Minnesota.
Kenai River Season Schedule Information
The Kenai River Brown Bears will play a 60-game regular season schedule.
The NAHL schedule does not have a balanced division format. The Bears are in the Midwest Division with the Coulee Region (Wisconsin) Chill, the Fairbanks Ice Dogs, the Janesville (Wisconsin) Jets, the Minnesota Magicians and the Springfield (Illinois) Jr. Blues.
The Bears face 11 different squads during the season, but face only one team — the Fairbanks Ice Dogs — more than five times. Kenai River and Fairbanks, the defending Robertson Cup Champions, will face off 13 times.
Kenai River will be packing most of its travel out of Alaska into the middle of the season. In addition to two four-game trips to the Midwest, the Bears have a 13-game trip to the Midwest and East Coast that starts Dec. 2 and ends Jan. 13.
