Dissolved 2012 | Association ACHA Members 7 | |
Sports fielded Ice hockey (men's: yes; women's: no) | ||
Not to be confused with the ECHL, a professional minor league hockey league in the United States.
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The Eastern Collegiate Hockey League was an ACHA Division I club hockey league that consisted of teams in the Northeast United States. The league consisted of 6 teams from schools in New York and Pennsylvania.
Format
The ECHL's had seven member teams that played a 10-game regular season conference schedule. The season concluded with the post-season ECHL Tournament. An automatic bid to the ACHA National Championship Tournament was awarded to the winner of the regular season.
Former Teams
Note: Canisius, Mercyhurst, Niagara, RIT, and Robert Morris all have NCAA Division I hockey teams competing in Atlantic Hockey.
References
Eastern Collegiate Hockey League Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA