“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."