Joe LaCour <[log in to unmask]> wrote, in part: >You're right. In the first few years of the HEA, they >played an interlock with the WCHA. I thought it was >dropped because of the NCAA restriction on game #'s. That's probably a simplification of what happened. HEA teams were very poor "draws", especially in the WCHA arenas. Travel costs were higher; more time on the road. As much as we liked it, and HEA needed it to grow at the time, it couldn't be justified in these days of watching $s¢s and missed class time. cheers, Wayne T. Smith Systems Group -- CAPS [log in to unmask] University of Maine System Co-owner of the College Hockey lists - Hockey-L/Info-Hockey-L/Hockey3 HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.