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  • Report: Holy Cross to replace Notre Dame in Hockey East?

    http://www.uscho.com/2016/09/14/repo...n-hockey-east/
    From USCHO News Slot
    According to the Worcester Telegram, citing multiple sources, Holy Cross has been approached about replacing Notre Dame in Hockey East when the Fighting Irish leave after the 2016-17 season. That move potentially means the Crusaders would play their home games at the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass., sharing the building with the new Worcester Railers of the ECHL that begin play with the 2017-18 season. Former Michigan Tech head coach Jamie Russell is the Railers’ […]Possibly related:
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    Re: Report: Holy Cross to replace Notre Dame in Hockey East?

    Not surprising since they are testing it this year with both BC and PC playing them in the DCU Center. How this shakes up the leagues is still to be seen with the Alaska situation still in doubt and AHC going full scholarship which may have happened a little too late to stave off a new set of revisions.

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    • #3
      Re: Report: Holy Cross to replace Notre Dame in Hockey East?

      Can't wait to see how the NCHC reacts to this news now that their "super conference" is being directly challenged by Hockey East.
      Time to blow up Eastern hockey I guess... Let the shuffling begin.

      Ryan J
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      • #4
        Re: Report: Holy Cross to replace Notre Dame in Hockey East?

        We've been trying to find the escape hatch in AH for years, shuffle away!
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        • #5
          Re: Report: Holy Cross to replace Notre Dame in Hockey East?

          Holy Cross is a perfect fit into the HEA mold. I hope this does officially happen. I would prefer the league not move to 11 teams...I hate having teams sitting on Friday/Saturday night's in February. Everyone should be playing conference games those nights!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by JohnsonsJerseys View Post
            Can't wait to see how the NCHC reacts to this news now that their "super conference" is being directly challenged by Hockey East.
            Time to blow up Eastern hockey I guess... Let the shuffling begin.

            Ryan J
            HEA left the Nacho in their wake some time ago....
            a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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            • #7
              Re: Report: Holy Cross to replace Notre Dame in Hockey East?

              You NCHC guys have it right. Those glorious 3 to 4 hour plane trips followed by a measly 30 minute bus ride to the rink while this adds another excruciating 45 minute bus ride for half the league. Wonder if they will split the league between public and privates seeing that the 6 privates are a geographic fit. BC could sure use the money saving on bus rides to the hinterlands of Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and the far west of Massachusetts. Those rides of 90 minutes and in the case of Vermont 3 hours and Maine 5 hours are harmful to our student athletes.

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              • #8
                Re: Report: Holy Cross to replace Notre Dame in Hockey East?

                Originally posted by JohnsonsJerseys View Post
                Can't wait to see how the NCHC reacts to this news now that their "super conference" is being directly challenged by Hockey East.
                Time to blow up Eastern hockey I guess... Let the shuffling begin.

                Ryan J
                How exactly would this blow up Eastern Hockey? IF this happens, Atlantic Hockey loses one team with the ECAC and HE being set at 12 teams each. Atlantic Hockey would be at 10...no issues there.

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                • #9
                  Re: Report: Holy Cross to replace Notre Dame in Hockey East?

                  Originally posted by BC/HE View Post
                  BC could sure use the money saving on bus rides to the hinterlands of Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and the far west of Massachusetts. Those rides of 90 minutes and in the case of Vermont 3 hours and Maine 5 hours are harmful to our student athletes.
                  UConn is two hours from Boston, UMass is the same, and UNH is an hour and a half. How come no concern when BC athletics take those weekly plane trips to the Carolinas?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Greg Ambrose View Post
                    UConn is two hours from Boston, UMass is the same, and UNH is an hour and a half. How come no concern when BC athletics take those weekly plane trips to the Carolinas?
                    You drive slow.....
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                    • #11
                      Re: Report: Holy Cross to replace Notre Dame in Hockey East?

                      Originally posted by Greg Ambrose View Post
                      How come no concern when BC athletics take those weekly plane trips to the Carolinas?
                      I'm sure they are concerned. They just are currently dealing with the presumed larger issue, the fact they lose those games
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                      • #12
                        Re: Report: Holy Cross to replace Notre Dame in Hockey East?

                        Originally posted by J.D. View Post
                        How exactly would this blow up Eastern Hockey? IF this happens, Atlantic Hockey loses one team with the ECAC and HE being set at 12 teams each. Atlantic Hockey would be at 10...no issues there.
                        That was just JJ's sticky post to all posts about a team switching conferences.
                        That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Report: Holy Cross to replace Notre Dame in Hockey East?

                          Originally posted by BC/HE View Post
                          Those rides of 90 minutes and in the case of Vermont 3 hours and Maine 5 hours are harmful to our student athletes.
                          The bus ride to Maine is 4 hours tops.

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                          • #14
                            Re: Report: Holy Cross to replace Notre Dame in Hockey East?

                            This would work to add to the "Turnpike Trophy" nonsense BU athletics is trying to make a thing.
                            Basically BU athletics vs Holy Cross athletics. 1 point per win across any sport. Most points at the end of the year wins the trophy.

                            "rivalry"...........

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                            • #15
                              Re: Report: Holy Cross to replace Notre Dame in Hockey East?

                              Originally posted by maineiac View Post
                              The bus ride to Maine is 4 hours tops.
                              The stop at Popeye's at the first rest area adds at least an hour to this trip!
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