Quote Originally Posted by TheValleyRaider View Post
The rink was part of it, but from what I understand, the women's team being D-III was also a sticking point. The conference wanted to get all 12 members in for both men's and women's. QU had their women ready to go, and HC wasn't ready/didn't want to do that at the time.

It wasn't really one or the other (I believe), but both factors in combination
Such a Holy Cross move. And now of course the women just took a quantum leap to Hockey East while our men's team remains the playoff choke artist of the AHA. While being in a conference with UMass, Northeastern, BU, BC and Providence would be pretty cool, I see Holy Cross becoming the academic Merrimack in HE if we ever get our men's team invited there. I would actually love for Quinnipiac to take Notre Dame's old spot there and for us to go to the ECACHL.