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Rumor out there is that realignment is coming to D3 Women's conferences next year to pair with Men's conference counterparts. This could effect the Colonial Hockey Conference the most but the creation of two new conferences could be in the works.
It was speculated that the SUNYAC now has 7 programs that can field a conference and send someone to the National Championship if Plattsburgh wants to wait it out although they most likely would still receive an at large bid. The SUNYAC would consist of Canton, Morrisville, Buffalo State, Plattsburgh, Potsdam, Cortland, and Oswego.
More speculation is that with the addition of women's hockey to Suffolk University the Commonwealth Coast Conference are very close to adding a women's side which would feature Endicott, Nichols, Salve Regina, UNE, Suffolk, JWU, and Becker.
This would leave the ECAC West losing some members but also gaining some and after LVC, and Kings get going it would look like this:
Manhattanville, Elmira, Neumann, Utica, William Smith, Kings, LVC, Chatham, and Stevenson.
That leaves the NEHC and after all of these changes it leaves DWC and Salem State alone in the Colonial and some teams out of the NEHC so the NEHC becomes Castleton State, Norwich, UMass Boston, Plymouth State, Southern Maine, New England College, DWC, and Salem State to go along with the scheduling partners of Holy Cross, St. Michaels, Saint Ansem's, and Franklin Pierce. Maybe Post as well.
It was speculated that the SUNYAC now has 7 programs that can field a conference and send someone to the National Championship if Plattsburgh wants to wait it out although they most likely would still receive an at large bid. The SUNYAC would consist of Canton, Morrisville, Buffalo State, Plattsburgh, Potsdam, Cortland, and Oswego.
More speculation is that with the addition of women's hockey to Suffolk University the Commonwealth Coast Conference are very close to adding a women's side which would feature Endicott, Nichols, Salve Regina, UNE, Suffolk, JWU, and Becker.
This would leave the ECAC West losing some members but also gaining some and after LVC, and Kings get going it would look like this:
Manhattanville, Elmira, Neumann, Utica, William Smith, Kings, LVC, Chatham, and Stevenson.
That leaves the NEHC and after all of these changes it leaves DWC and Salem State alone in the Colonial and some teams out of the NEHC so the NEHC becomes Castleton State, Norwich, UMass Boston, Plymouth State, Southern Maine, New England College, DWC, and Salem State to go along with the scheduling partners of Holy Cross, St. Michaels, Saint Ansem's, and Franklin Pierce. Maybe Post as well.
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