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The Beginning of new hockey leagues

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Yes, I'm willing to give ND credit for creating the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Hockey Conference. The excitement is palpable.
 
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Yes, I'm willing to give ND credit for creating the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Hockey Conference. The excitement is palpable.

UMD didn't get the memo, I'm afraid.

Come to think of it, Minot State and Winona State (or whomever else you'd need to get to six teams) didn't get it either.
 
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But the offers were a status quo move. If NDU and MoOH had jumped to the WCHA maybe they get credit for creating opportunity for college hockey expansion (in CCHA). Instead ...

UND created opportunity for college hockey expansion.
Spin that bouncing the rubble is a positive -Taking out the bridge saves people the expense of tolls, and fewer homes for trolls.
 
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I bet UAA has just as terrible a road record against the MSU Moorhead Dragons as they do against North Dakota (as the Dragons will be playing in Scheels Arena, which is west of the Red in Fargo).

Just think, without UND opening that space in the WCHA we'd have never seen it. :D
 
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I bet UAA has just as terrible a road record against the MSU Moorhead Dragons as they do against North Dakota (as the Dragons will be playing in Scheels Arena, which is west of the Red in Fargo).

Just think, without UND opening that space in the WCHA we'd have never seen it. :D

All praise UND, the savior of college hockey!
 
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Did UMTC and UW even try to remove, or even just modify with a hockey exception, the Big Ten "if six play the sport we play as the Big Ten" rule?
Or did they just go merrily along and now claim "kidnapped by Jim Delany" status?
 
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Did UMTC and UW even try to remove, or even just modify with a hockey exception, the Big Ten "if six play the sport we play as the Big Ten" rule?
Or did they just go merrily along and now claim "kidnapped by Jim Delany" status?

You underestimate Jim Delany's power. He threatens Congress on a regular basis. If he was in charge of your school, not only would you have the Sioux name for all time, you'd be permitted to have a warrior in full regalia stab someone at center ice and use their blood to draw the red line.
 
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Here's some perspective and history:
http://www.ncaa.com/news/icehockey-men/2011-07-15/new-hockey-league-may-be-best

“Back in the prehistoric times when I played in the WCHA and all five of the WCHA coaches in the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference were playing in the WCHA, it was a different league,” Gwozdecky said. “Michigan, Michigan State and Notre Dame were part of the WCHA. ...

“The naysayers were saying at the time – I remember very vividly – that Michigan, Michigan State and Notre Dame were foolish to leave the WCHA. That would be the end of college hockey as we knew it, the WCHA would lose three strong programs. The three schools leaving would soon be back, because the CCHA was 'the bus league,' as they were known at that time. A few years later, there were a few schools in the ECAC that said, ‘You know what? We want to align ourselves together and form a new conference,’ and led by Lou Lamoriello, they decided to form Hockey East.

"This is not the first time the landscape has changed, and it won’t be the last time."
 
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Why does the mobile version unsubscribe me from a thread when I reply with quotes?!?!
 
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