I think everyone is looking past the big picture. CHA and MAAC are the best
things to happen to D1 hockey in years. They have spread the game from
Alabama & intensified hockey in New England and Iona is the closest D1 team
to the Big Apple.If skipping two marginal "big teams" to make sure the MAAC &
CHA are in so much the better. The goal should be to spread the game & hope
we can find the hockey equivalent of Gonzaga (like Niagara last year or
Mercyhurst - the only D1 team in Pa). I still maintain the gap between the
MAAC and the ECAC is narrowing each year.