Catching up on old e-mail and I don't think this was ever answered ....
 
>         Another update on the Fox Sports Rocky Mountain situation;
> during tonight's CC-DU game they said that their next college
> broadcast will be the championship of the Denver Cup on December 28.
> (Don't know if they'll carry anyone else's broadcasts before then, but
> it seems unlikely.)  One strange thing is that they said the game
> would be Denver vs the Yale/Air Force winner.  I thought this was just
> hubris (last year, it was taken for granted that the championship game
> would be CC vs DU), but the announcers said Denver will definitely
> play, against the winner of Yale and Air Force.  Now, the schedule at
> USCHO (and on the DU web site) has Air Force playing Maine and Denver
> playing Yale in the semifinals.  Was there some change made because of
> the Maine TV situation?  (After all, a Denver-Maine championship game
> could not be televised.)
 
This is an educated guess -- a simple call to Maine could confirm this, but
nevertheless -- I'm assuming this arises from the elimination of Maine's
exemption for playing Dalhousie in their own J.C. Penney Classic.
 
The sanctions included the elimination of this exemption toward their games
limit.  Maine was exploring other things it could do, but apparently it must
have decided that the only thing it could really do was pull out of the Denver
Cup.
 
Just an educated guess, but it makes sense.  Someone could probably confirm
this quicker than I, but I'll check it out.
 
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