Reporter Danny Martin of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, in Alaska, has a nice article that discusses merger talk between the remaining teams of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
As the defections continue, and potential future defections are a VERY real possibility, scheduling and cooperation will become increasingly important.
Martin also talks about a very important CCHA conference call with league athletic directors that took place on Friday morning as news spread of the forming of the new hockey conference that will break up the WCHA and the CCHA. North Dakota, Colorado College, Minnesota-Duluth, Denver and Nebraska-Omaha of the WCHA are expected to join with Miami of the CCHA. It is being speculated that, later this summer, they could be joined by Western Michigan and Notre Dame - schools that have been rumored to have been extended invitations to join this new league.
Hopefully cooperation will prevail. We've already witnessed the damage egos can do as we've seen what has already taken place in college hockey during the last year.
Check out Martin's article, here: http://newsminer.com/bookmark/14648012-Potential-WCHA-change-forces-CCHA-call
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