North Stars release
2009-10 schedule

TRAVERSE CITY - Saturday is still reserved for 'Hockey Night in Traverse City', but the Traverse City North Stars will be packing a few more icy battles into the middle of the week this season.

The North Stars, who released the 2009-10 regular season schedule on Tuesday, will drop the puck 13 times between Monday and Thursday this year, including seven home weekeday contests at Centre ICE arena. North American Hockey League runner-up Wenatchee (Wa.) will visit Traverse City for a pair of early-season Monday-Tuesday contests while on a Midwest road trip, Marquette comes to town for two early-week affairs on Dec. 28-29 as part of the Traverse City Central holiday high school tournament, and the Thanksgiving eve showdown (Nov. 25) with Alpena has been reprised. Back-to-back Wednesday showdowns with Alpena and Motor City are slated for mid-March.

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