(08-29-2018 12:29 PM)Schadenfreude Wrote:  

(08-28-2018 04:41 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Denver and Colorado College are going to need more than just Arizona St and a rumored UNLV program if they are going to start a new western hockey league. They'd need Air Force on board and at least 3 more. Denver also has to be careful not to anger UND and Omaha since they are conference mates in the Summit.

Here are two schools that any Far West league could easily have:





The WCHA would not object to losing the Alaska Anchorage and Alaska Fairbanks. The travel is expensive. Problem is, the travel costs don't go down by much by putting them in a Far West league.

Before the Big Ten blew up college hockey, there seemed to be an understanding between the WCHA and CCHA that each would take on one Alaska school for the good of college hockey. Unfortunately, conferences don't seem to play nice like that anymore.

That's a pair of western schools that, while available, no one starting a new conference is going to want to touch. Something about travel complications I read.