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Off season notes and news....

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The new Potsdam assistant is holding out for all you can eat at Arby's (which is also on the other side of the river).
 
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joecct said:
Ladies and Gentlemen, a big welcome to Wilkes University. Should be a big rivalry with Kings.

http://www.gowilkesu.com/news/2016/...e-scranton-penguins.aspx#.V8XPsk-qp8M.twitter
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With the rapid expansion of the ECAC West, the loss of UNE and the rumored loss of St. A's and St. Mike's, is there any chance the NEHC could entice one of the existing ECAC West members to defect to their conference? Perhaps Utica to serve as travel partners with Skidmore?
 
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Buckeye22 said:
With the rapid expansion of the ECAC West, the loss of UNE and the rumored loss of St. A's and St. Mike's, is there any chance the NEHC could entice one of the existing ECAC West members to defect to their conference? Perhaps Utica to serve as travel partners with Skidmore?
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that would mean that The U would have to travel as much as the rest of the gang :eek:
 
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I wonder if the MAC is trying to get their 7 teams so that they can have their own conference in hockey, too, and split from the ECAC-West leaving them in the cold again.
 
dhammond said:
I wonder if the MAC is trying to get their 7 teams so that they can have their own conference in hockey, too, and split from the ECAC-West leaving them in the cold again.
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13 is too big for a D3 conference. Given a 25 game count, 10 seems to be the max for a conference. If we split the ECAC-W in two and poach Morrisville....

I can get the MAC to 7: Chatham, Kings, Wilkes, Manhattanville, Neumann, Lebanon Valley,and Stevenson.

I can get the ECAC-W to 6: Morrisville, Canton, Elmira, Hobart, Nazareth, and Utica.

Some D3 school in NYS needs to start a hockey program.

It is RIT's fault.
 
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joecct said:
13 is too big for a D3 conference. Given a 25 game count, 10 seems to be the max for a conference. If we split the ECAC-W in two and poach Morrisville....

I can get the MAC to 7: Chatham, Kings, Wilkes, Manhattanville, Neumann, Lebanon Valley,and Stevenson.

I can get the ECAC-W to 6: Morrisville, Canton, Elmira, Hobart, Nazareth, and Utica.

Some D3 school in NYS needs to start a hockey program.

It is RIT's fault.
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I wonder what the latest is with NYU. Supposedly they were looking to go D3. Canton might be doable. Not sure about Morrisville as they are already in a conference. I guess we'll see, but it sure looks like the MAC is preparing to pull away.
Even 11 teams is too much for 1 conference. I don't think playing 20 conference games is a good thing.
 
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dhammond said:
I wonder what the latest is with NYU. Supposedly they were looking to go D3. Canton might be doable. Not sure about Morrisville as they are already in a conference. I guess we'll see, but it sure looks like the MAC is preparing to pull away.
Even 11 teams is too much for 1 conference. I don't think playing 20 conference games is a good thing.
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Back in the days of the ECAC East before the split, there were 18 teams and they played each other once per year.
 
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PrezdeJohnson09 said:
Weren't there 20? 10 ECAC East and 10 NESCAC?
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With the interlock that was true, but Castleton and St. Mikes were added later, and we had MCLA (aka North Adams) for 9 non-NESCAC teams, and Tufts played in the ECAC NE, so there were 9 NESCACS. Teams came and went but typically there were 18. Travel partners were regional rather than by league (for example, NU and Midd were partners). Of course all of this may have been in place before you were born :)
 
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d3follower said:
Correct -- the interlock had a full complement of 20 teams (10 per league) and 19 league games for the last 7 years of its existence (2004-11).
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The difference was, of course, that the interlock was not a league (the NESCACs bolted the ECAC East to get an AQ). Prior to the interlock when the ECAC East was a league it had as many as 18 members. The top 10 teams that wanted to play qualified for the playoffs (the ECAC East playoffs were considered post season by the NESCAC, and if a NESCAC team chose to play in the ECACs, they couldn't accept an NCAA invite.

In any case it is possible to have a league with as many as 18-20 teams, but you would only play each team once.

The NEHC women's conference had 14 teams last year. They played a 17 game schedule. 9 teams were played once and 4 were played twice.
 
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NUProf said:
...The NEHC women's conference had 14 teams last year. They played a 17 game schedule. 9 teams were played once and 4 were played twice.
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Does anyone know if the non D3 teams in the NEHC women will get the boot like what will happen on the men's side??
 
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