Joe LaCour <[log in to unmask]> wrote, in part:
>You're right.  In the first few years of the HEA, they
>played an interlock with the WCHA.  I thought it was
>dropped because of the NCAA restriction on game #'s.
 
That's probably a simplification of what happened.  HEA teams were very
poor "draws", especially in the WCHA arenas.  Travel costs were higher;
more time on the road.  As much as we liked it, and HEA needed it to
grow at the time, it couldn't be justified in these days of watching
$s&cents and missed class time.
 
cheers,
 
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