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[LadyStanley]

Atlantic Hockey and College Hockey America Join to Form Atlantic Hockey America

The Atlantic Hockey Association and College Hockey America announced Tuesday they will begin competing jointly as one united league under the name Atlantic Hockey America in 2024-25.

atlantichockeyonline.com

Atlantic Hockey + College Hockey America = new league

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[No Fun Shogun]

To note, this is effectively a business merger of a men's conference and a women's conference, so it's not really an alignment shift of any kind other than the names of the respective conference champions and auto-bids.

From the article, the men's and women's conferences would be the following:

The 11-team men’s league consists of Air Force, AIC (American International), Army West Point, Bentley, Canisius, Holy Cross, Mercyhurst, Niagara, RIT (Rochester Institute of Tech) Robert Morris and Sacred Heart. The six-team women’s league features Lindenwood, Mercyhurst, Penn State, RIT, Robert Morris and Syracuse and will welcome Delaware as its seventh member in 2025-26.

These are relatively smaller programs on the men's side.

 

[Spydey629]

As an RMU alum, nothing is changing at all.

My only issue is that the branding is just... lazy.