Do I understand you are suggesting a bus trip between Fairbanks and Anchorage in the winter?  That's around 375 miles - not exactly across town.

Tom Rowe 

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Seems there is a lot to say about keeping college hockey when there is a campus rink that is used for PE, intramurals (hockey and broomball), precision skating.....  Unlike the squeak ball or pigskin game, it seems much easier to justify in AK where it has a very natural connection.  Also, it does not seem that there would necessarily be more costly travel since a team could play both teams on a weekend in AK and then again when the Alaskans travel out of state with inexpensive local bus travel between venues. Since air travel has a large fixed cost component, the AK teams
might travel on one chartered plane at much lower cost.   As an additional
money issue, I wonder if anyone has heard of conferences/schools are seriously contemplating reducing the number of games played next season.

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