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The Reno Ice Adult League Summer 2024 season is over. The RIAL Fall 2024 season starts this week. This will be the thirteenth season of the RIAL. This is will be the eleventh season for Reno Pond Hockey in the RIAL. This will be Reno Pond Hockeys second season in the E-League. This will be the eighth season for the RIAL E-League. Reno Pond Hockey were in the B-League from the RIAL Summer 2021 to the RIAL Spring 2022 season. Reno Pond Hockey were in the D-League from the RIAL Summer 2022 season to the RIAL Spring 2024 season. Reno Pond Hockey moved down to the E-League for the Summer 2024 season. This is the first RIAL Fall season Reno Pond Hockey has played in since the RIAL Fall 2021 B-League season. Reno Pond Hockey will start the RIAL Fall 2024 season on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024. The regular season will consist of ten games again. The regular season will run from September through November. The Playoffs will be in November.

The E-League will have six teams. The Reno Fire Hosers E are joining the E-League. Mad Hops have moved up to the D-League. Reno Pond Hockey, The Grrrowlers, Holy Pucks, Pure Luck, and Satan’s Gatekeepers are returning from last season. The RIAL Fall 2024 season will be from September 2024 to November 2024. Three out of the five leagues are playing this season. The RIAL B-League, and the RIAL D-League are on Hiatus this season.

Again the regular season will be a ten game regular season schedule. Reno Pond Hockey has four games in September, three games in October, and three games in November. The RIAL Fall 2024 E-League Playoffs start on Monday, November 18th, 2024. Reno Pond Hockey only has two games this season that start at or before 9:00 PM. Reno Pond Hockey has five games that start after 10:00 PM. The earliest start time is 5:00 PM. The latest start time is 10:45 PM.

Most of the upcoming Reno Pond Hockey schedule is on weekdays. Most of the games are on Thursdays with half the season being on Thursdays. There are four weekend games. There is one Monday game, one Wednesday game, five Thursday games, one Friday game, one Saturday game, and two Sunday games. There are no Tuesday games in the upcoming schedule. This will be the first season in a while that Reno Pond Hockey have back games on back to back days. The schedule at the end of the season might be brutal. There will be three games in five days. Two of those games will be within twenty four hours of each other. With the playoffs their may be a possible game that Monday or Tuesday. The end of the season and into the playoffs could look like games on Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday or Tuesday. The longest break between games will be eighteen days between game seven and game eight. Game nine on Saturday, November 16th, is the only game this season where the Tahoe Knight Monsters have a home game.

Reno Pond Hockey will play every team in the E-League twice.

Notable games:

September 4th – Reno Pond Hockey vs Satan’s Gatekeepers (season opener, home opener, semifinal rematch)

September 9th – Reno Pond Hockey vs Reno Fire Hosers E (rivalry night)

October 27th – Reno Pond Hockey at Grrrowlers (Holloween game)

November 16th – Reno Pond Hockey at Satan’s Gatekeepers (semifinal rematch)

November 17th – Reno Pond Hockey vs Reno Fire Hosers E (Thanksgiving game, last game of the regular season, rivalry night)