Today's Lansing State Journal (Neil Koepke) quotes CCHA Commissioner
Beagan "The NCAA has given us permission to try it [2R-2L] in up to 10
games."
 
  The firsst will be Friday when Illinois-Chicago hosts Laurentian.  The
format for Mich State's opener against Western Ontario is expected
to be 2 Ref, 1 Linesman.
 
  One coach points out that there were 6 referees in the league last year,
three were good; now there will be 12 so ...
 
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Item 2-
  On an interview on WJR Detroit this noon, a statement was made (I caught
only the tail end of the interview so I don't know who was speaking, but
it sounded knowledgeable enough, that Dallas Drake has been told that it
is OK for him to move out of the Hotel Ponchartrain and find housing in
Detroit;  sounds like he is in with the parent Wings.