| June 10, 1946: following a 14-year absence, ice hockey is reinstated as a varsity sport by adminstrative officials at Duluth State Teacher's College. |
| June 27, 1949: after two seasons playing as an independent, UMD is accepted into the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. |
| Dec. 13, 1957: Minnesota-Duluth dumps visiting Michigan Tech, 5-3, for its first triumph over an NCAA Div. 1 institution. |
| Feb. 18, 1959: F Orest Wojcichowsky nets 10 points (4g,6a) against Concordia College in what would stand as a UMD (pre-NCAA Div. 1) single-game record. |
| Aug. 10, 1961: Minnesota-Duluth abandons the MIAC in hopes of establishing itself as a legitimate big-time hockey school...the University elects to compete as a Div. 1 independent and releases a 1961-62 schedule which features games against WCHA powers such as Minnesota, Michigan Tech, Michigan State, and Denver. |
| Dec. 19, 1964: in what still stands as an NCAA Div. 1 single-game record, senior goaltender Bill Halbrehder makes 77 saves in a 6-5 (ot) loss at Michigan. |
| March 20, 1965: the 1966 NCAA Div. 1 Tournament and the American Hockey Coaches Association Convention is awarded to the city of Duluth and its new $6.1 million Arena-Auditorium Complex...but due to construction delays, the event is later switched to Williams Arena in Minneapolis...the Duluth Arena, however, would host the NCAA Championships in both 1968 and 1981. |
| April 3, 1965: UMD Provost Raymond Darland announces that the Bulldogs will become the eighth team in the prestigious WCHA beginning with the 1965-66 season. |
| Feb. 18, 1966: the Bulldogs take to the Duluth Curling Club ice sheet for a final time, falling 8-3 to Michigan before a crowd of just over 2,000. |
| March 13, 1966: defenseman Bob Hill is among six players selected to the 1965-66 AHCA All-American first team, becoming the first Bulldog to ever earn such a distinction. |
| Feb. 11, 1966: the Bulldogs end their 14-game winless WCHA streak by clipping North Dakota 3-2 (ot) in Grand Forks for the school's first league victory. |
| Nov. 19, 1966: in the inaugural game at the Duluth Arena, All-American center Keith `Huffer' Christiansen, who later that year would be named WCHA MVP, collects a school-record six assists to propel the Bulldogs past Minnesota 8-1 before a sellout crowd of 5,700. |
| March 12, 1971: center Pat Boutette rams in a rebound for his second goal of the game seven minutes into overtime to give the Bulldogs a 4-3 triumph over Michigan State in the opening round of the WCHA playoffs in Denver...the victory is UMD's first-ever in WCHA post-season play. |
| Dec. 17, 1971: over a dozen school-single game records fall by the wayside as the Bulldogs paste Minnesota 15-3 in Minneapolis... a pair of All-American centers - Walt Ledingham and Pat Boutette - each record hat tricks to lead the scoring onslaught for UMD, which struck for nine goals in the second period (including eight in a six-minute span). |
| Nov. 17, 1972: buoyed by the five-goal performance of senior Steve `Pokey' Trachsel, UMD opens play at the Christmas City of the North Tournament in Duluth with an 11-4 rout of Lake Superior...Trachsel, who had been deployed at defense during his first three seasons before moving up to the wing in 1972-73, sets a club mark (one that still stands) with the five scores and equals another team record by adding one assist for a six points...despite that performance, Trachsel was overlooked by the selection committee on the All-Tournament first team. |
| Jan. 13, 1973: in what arguably ranks as the greatest UMD comeback of all time, the Bulldogs rally from a 6-2 deficit with 5:21 remaining in regulation to edge MTU 7-6 (ot) at the Duluth Arena...center Pat Boutette scored three straight goals (natural hat trick) in 2:37 before rookie Tom Milani notched the winner 3:02 into OT. |
| Feb. 23, 1974: UMD sets a single-game attendance record at the Duluth Arena as 6,158 watch MTU win, 5-3. |
| March 16, 1974: the host Bulldogs upend Vermont 7-4 to capture the short-lived (one year) National Invitational Hockey Tourn., a four-team event for clubs which didn't qualify for NCAA tourney play. |
| Oct. 24, 1975: in his first collegiate game with the Bulldogs, freshman W John `Bah' Harrington raps in a pass from Ernie Powell past goalie Blane Comstock 4:04 into OT to give host UMD a 4-3 win over the U.S. Olympic Team. |
| Dec. 16, 1977: just 13 days after equalling a UMD record for points in one game (six), All-American defenseman Curt Giles establishes a club single-game mark for assists with six to spark a 7-6 victory at CC. |
| Dec. 29, 1977: wearing Eveleth HS uniforms because their new home jerseys had yet to arrive, the Bulldogs beat Brown, 4-1. |
| March 7, 1979: despite losing 4-2 in OT to Denver, the Bulldogs still managed to win their two-game, total-goal WCHA quarterfinal playoff series with the Pioneers 7-6 at the Duluth Arena to advance to the second round of the league's post-season tournament for the first time...UMD, with two All-Americans in Curt Giles and Mark Pavelich, placed third in the final WCHA standings - its first finish in the upper division. |
| March 19, 1983: after bowing at Providence 7-3 the previous night, UMD succumbs 3-2 to the Friars in its first showing in an NCAA playoff series. |
| Feb. 17, 1984: sparked by forward Bob Lakso's hat trick, UMD upends Wisconsin 4-2 at the Duluth Arena to secure its first WCHA title. |
| March 10, 1984: forced to host a "home" series at Williams Arena in Minneapolis due to a scheduling conflict with the Duluth Arena, the Bulldogs blitz UND 8-1 before a near-capacity crowd of 7,297 in the first of a two-game WCHA playoff championship series...the Bulldogs go on to defeat the Sioux, 12-6, in the total-goal set and advance to the NCAA quarterfinals. |
| March 22, 1984: the Bulldogs beat North Dakota in the semifinals of the NCAA Championships in Lake Placid...the thrilling 2-1 (ot) victory is sealed when two-time All-American RW Bill Watson scores off a Bob Lasko feed in front of the net at the 3:09 mark of the first extra session. |
| March 23, 1984: defenseman Tom Kurvers, who was chosen the WCHA's MVP earlier in the month, becomes the first Bulldog to win the Hobey Baker Memorial Award. |
| March 24, 1984: making its inaugural appearance in the NCAA finals, UMD falls 5-4 in four OTs to Bowling Green in Lake Placid...the 97:11 game was, at the time, the longest in NCAA post-season history...G Rick Kosti turns back a tourney-record 55 shots. |
| Dec. 22, 1984: UMD concludes its six-day tour of the Soviet Union, thus becoming the first American collegiate ice hockey team to ever visit that country...the Bulldogs split a two-game series with the Junior Red Army in Leningrad and in Moscow during their historic voyage. |
| Feb. 16, 1985: the Bulldogs, behind a pair of goals from W Bill Watson, claim their second straight WCHA regular season crown by skating past MTU 4-3 at the Duluth Arena. |
| March 25, 1985: third-year Head Coach Mike Sertich is selected WCHA Coach of the Year for an unprecedented third season in a row. |
| March 29, 1985: one day before he was to record his 109th point of the season (NCAA Div. 1 record at the time), junior Bill Watson is bestowed with the Hobey Baker Memorial Award... Watson, who had earlier been named the WCHA's MVP after leading the circuit in scoring for a second straight season, becomes the second Bulldog in as many years to receive the prized national honor. |
| March 30, 1985: after losing a 5-4 triple-overtime decision the previous evening to eventual NCAA champion RPI, UMD rebounds with a 6-5 OT win vs BC to capture third at the NCAA Championships at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. |
| March 1, 1986: sophomore sensation Brett Hull beats NMU's Chris Jiannaris at 15:38 of the third period in a WCHA quarterfinal series in Duluth for his 50th goal of the year (fourth of the night) to eclipse the previous Bulldog season mark of 49 set in 1984-85 by Bill Watson...the All-WCHA winger would finish the year with 52 goals. |
| Jan. 30, 1988: in a special pre-game ceremony at the DECC, UMD retires Keith `Huffer' Christiansen's No. 9 jersey, marking the only time the school has bestowed any of its athletes with that honor. |
| Feb. 25, 1989: junior Dale Jago scores 1-1=2 in a 6-3 WCHA playoff loss to NMU in Marquette...in the process, he becomes the first defenseman to lead UMD in scoring.< /FONT> |
| Nov. 4, 1989: UMD equals their best start ever (8-0-0) with a 7-1 win vs UAA. |
| March 3, 1991: goalie Chad Erickson establishes a then- ironman record when he makes his 64th consecutive start in a WCHA playoff series at UW...the outing marked his final appearance as a collegian. |
| Feb. 27, 1993: the Bulldogs skate off with their third WCHA title by blanking visiting SCSU, 4-0. |
| March 13, 1993: with a 4-0 victory, UMD sweeps UAA in the first round of the WCHA playoffs at the DECC and concludes the year with a 17-1 home record for a .944 percentage, the best in school history. |
| March 19, 1993: the Bulldogs steal the show at the WCHA Awards Banquet as senior center Derek Plante lands the league's MVP honor and fellow All-WCHA first team pick Brett Hauer, a senior defenseman, is named Student-Athlete of the Year (school first)...Mike Sertich also becomes only the second individual to ever be chosen the WCHA's Coach of the Year on four occasions. |
| April 1, 1994: WCHA Player of the Year Chris Marinucci, who scored more points than any other collegian during the past two seasons, closes his Bulldog career by claiming the 1994 Hobey Baker Award. |
| Feb. 23, 1996: in what is believed to be a college hockey first, rookie wing Forrest `Woody' Glines scores his first (and only) collegiate goal on a penalty shot in a 5-1 home victory over Northern Michigan. |
| March 15, 1998: left for dead and down 4-0 with less than 14:00 remaining, the Bulldogs rally to defeat Minnesota 5-4 in the third and deciding game of their WCHA playoff series at the DECC. |
| April 18, 2000: one month after receiving the WCHA's Student-Athlete of the Year award, senior Jeff Scissons is named a GTE Academic All-American (first team) - the first UMD athlete so honored. |
