Hockey East, in its sixth season, has a similar situation.

In all, 11 schools are members of Hockey East.

They have won 9 of their last 10 and are first in Hockey East with a 2-point lead over Maine.

He will take command of Hockey East on July 1.

He was also named Hockey East's player of the week.

The team from Hockey East led by 2-0 but then slumped and gave up four straight goals, including three in a long second period.

But Hockey East still leads over all by 23-13-5.

Hockey East is in effect a developmental league for the pros with 124 former players now on active rosters.

Although the television revenue never became lucrative, Hockey East did thrive.

From Hockey East's perspective, a 12th member would ease scheduling problems.