With the demolition of the historic Matthews Arena set to begin soon, fans and students are wondering which rink the Huskies will call home in the spring. The answer? A few. 

The final game in Matthews Arena is scheduled for Dec. 13, when the men’s hockey team will take on the Boston University Terriers one last time in the century-old rink. The women’s team will play its last home game in Matthews Dec. 6 against the Boston College Eagles.

The men’s team will not return to home ice until Jan. 18, when it will host the University of New Hampshire Wildcats at Walter Brown Arena, the home of BU’s women’s hockey team. Walter Brown is about an 18-minute drive from where Matthews currently stands, or roughly 30 minutes via public transit. 

The women’s team will also be splitting time between rinks, with three home games scheduled at Walter Brown and two at Bentley Arena, home of both the men’s and women’s hockey programs at Bentley University.

Games at Bentley may prove harder for students and fans to attend as the rink is located roughly 30 minutes from campus by car and over an hour away by public transit. 

The men’s team, however, will be traveling farther and more frequently, as it will call five different arenas home ice.

Aside from Walter Brown and Bentley, the men’s team will be playing twice at Harvard’s Bright-Landry Hockey Center, twice at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Tsongas Center and once at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, Maine. Bright-Landry is the closest of the three, about a 15-minute drive away or 40 minutes via public transit using the bus or the Red Line. 

This demanding travel schedule will test the adaptability of the Huskies as they adjust to being a hockey program without a permanent home rink. 

For fans of Northeastern hockey, attending games may become more difficult this spring — but support will be more important than ever as the teams adjust to new rinks and smaller crowds.