The Wildcats will represent Northern Michigan University in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, play their home games at Berry Events Center and be coached by Dave Shyiak in his 1st season.

With an off-season coaching change, combined with a disappointing season, Northern Michigan experienced the greatest amount of roster turnover in the history of the program.

[1] Just four of thirty players on the roster returned (Tanner Latsch, Zach Michaelis, Jakob Peterson and Brendan Poshak) with just 42 games played between them in 23–24 (approximately 6.5% of the man-games).

While the Wildcats were bound to lose some players through graduation, the transfer portal helped to induce eleven players to leave for other programs.

Northern Michigan was able to add several new players through the portal to mitigate some of the losses but the majority of their recruiting class were new to college hockey.