I'm pretty sure I read on USCHO that the ECAC dropped their sponsership of the
bill at the request of the other leagues, though I could be wrong and if this
has already been discussed on here and I missed it, I'm sorry.

The biggest difference between hockey and baseball/basketball is that with the
exception of holiday tournaments when the students aren't in class anyway, all
games typically take place between friday and sunday in hockey, and that they
are 2 game series rather than 1 game here, one game there. Basketball has
midweek games galore, including and especially conference games, and baseball
teams sometimes spend weeks at a time on the road, though granted most
conference series are weekend series and by april midweek non-conference travel
is pretty regionalized and sometimes non-exsistant.

True hockey teams play 34-38 games per year in the regular season, but let's
look closer. To take a typical team, we'll say they play 36 games, including
one holiday tournament. That means 34 regular season games, or 17 weekend
series. 1/2 of which are at home, which means they're only travelling 8-9
times. Unless it's to Alaska or somewhere really far away, at most they'll miss
Friday classes and maybe Thursday's. Spread this out over 2 semesters, or
trimesters, or quarters, and hockey players will generally miss an individual
class roughly 5 times until the playoffs. I know plenty of non student-atheltes
who miss that many if not mroe just from skipping/oversleeping/etc.

Playoffs add more problems, until you realize they occur right around spring
break, so the average team that makes it anywhere into the playoffs probably
has their spring break in there, if they didn't already have it earlier. So out
of the 4 playoff weekends (1st round, conference semis-finals, ncaa regionals,
frozen four), after accounting for spring break they only add another 2
weekends of travel, and then only for a small number of teams who likely didn't
even travel for that first weekend of conference playoffs.