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¢s and missed class time.
cheers,
Wayne T. Smith Systems Group -- CAPS
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