Talk of sending the four conference champions to the NCAA
tournament is nice, but remember that it is by accident, not by
design, that there are four conferences. When I started watching
college hockey, back in 1967, there were just two conferences,
the WCHA and the ECAC. Then the CCHA came along, then Hockey
East. What do you when the next conference (perhaps the Ivy
League, God forbid) comes along?