Yup. Alaska has to pay airfare, hotel, and other accommodations for  
something like 30 players/coaches from all CCHA teams for each trip  
they make here, accept for UNO, which came into the league after we  
did. I believe that the same (or nearly the same) arrangements are  
levied on UAA, as well, for WCHA travel here.  In exchange for this,  
everybody else gets to schedule other games, except for us and UAA.  
(You might well ask how games vs Robert Morris impacted The OSU RPI  
and helped get them into the Frozen 16. I guess that's probably a  
different discussion thread, though, and I'll leave it alone...)

--Jeff Partnow


On Mar 31, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Mark Lewin wrote:

> Can anyone remember the deal that got the Alaska schools into the
> established leagues?  Wasn't there something about the trips to either
> Alaska school not counting toward the total NCAA games in a season?   
> Was
> there also some financial incentive for teams to travel there?