The Utica Comets’ seventh season is getting closer.

With the Comets set to begin the home portion of the schedule in mid-October, the team will feature a “Oktoberfest” fan festival during two days that is set to include a red-carpet entrance from players.

That event – planned for Friday, Oct. 18, and Saturday, Oct. 19, on the plaza in front of the Adirondack Bank Center at Utica Memorial Auditorium — is part of the Comets’ promotional schedule for the season. The red-carpet entrance will be Saturday. Other highlights from the schedule include a few giveaways, special jersey games and opportunities to meet players.

The giveaways include a drawstring bag (Wednesday, Oct. 30), team photo/autograph session (Saturday, Nov. 2) and a Comets Christmas ornament (Friday, Dec. 6) as well as a Fan Appreciation Week in early April. A post-game skate with players is set for Sunday, March 22.

The Comets will wear two special "theme" jerseys, which will be available to fans following the contests, according to the team. They will wear one for the military appreciation game – set for the afternoon of Monday, Nov. 11 – and another special jersey for three games as part the Save of the Day Foundation Week in mid-January. There were no other details released about the jerseys.

Similar to last season, there are two bar crawls around the arena before games on Wednesday, Dec. 20 (Ugly Sweater) and Saturday, Feb. 29 (Leap Year).

The team said additional promotions and giveaways will be announced during the season. One noticeable item not included as part of Friday's initial schedule is a bobblehead figure. The team had four separate bobblehead giveaways throughout last season.

The Comets’ popular green third uniform with the “U” logo is set to return a total of a seven times. The dates for the jerseys include: Oct. 18, Nov. 2, Dec. 20, Jan. 3, Feb. 12, March 20 and April 10.

Individual game tickets are set to go on sale Saturday, Sept. 7. The tickets will go on sale at noon that day at empirestatetix.com.

There are about 3,400 season-ticket members, according to the team. That means approximately 500 tickets available for home games.