With Penn State creating a varsity hockey program, thanks to an $80 million gift from alumnus Terry Pegula, the talk of a Big Ten hockey conference is heating up.
The Big Ten hockey conference (six teams being the ‘magic number’ to qualify for an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament) would include Penn State, Minnesota, and Wisconsin from the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), and Michigan, Michigan State, and Ohio State from the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA).
To state the obvious, this would completely shake-up the landscape of college hockey.
