Established 1995 League ACHA Executive Director AJ Boldan | Members 6 Classification Division II | |
States California (3), Washington (2),
Oregon (1) | ||
The Pacific 8 Intercollegiate Hockey Conference (PAC-8) is a collegiate men's ice hockey conference that competes in Division II of the American Collegiate Hockey Association. The PAC-8 is made up of non-varsity ice hockey teams from most of the universities of the NCAA's Pac-12 Conference.
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Regular Season Format
According to the PAC-8 Charter, membership is limited only to sanctioned teams from universities that are also members of the Pac-12. By rule, each season starts on October 1 of each year.
Along with the required conference schedule, teams schedule several non-conference games against ACHA opponents for regional and national ranking consideration.
In game play, the ACHA follows the NCAA Rulebook for ice hockey. For interconference games, the PAC-8 mostly follows the same rules for game times and structure. A notable difference is in cases of a tie game after regulation and a 5-minute sudden-death overtime period, the PAC-8 uses a five-man shootout to determine the winner. This differs with the NHL, which uses a three-man shootout. This shootout is also carried into conference playoff games (both the NHL and NCAA use additional sudden-death overtime periods to determine the winner). For the 2013-2014 season, a small change was introduced to allow for an extended 10-minute overtime period for only the championship game of the conference tournament, after which the winner would be determined by a five-man shootout.
Members
Of the remaining Pac-12 universities:
Tournament Weekend
The PAC-8 Championship Tournament is typically held the weekend before Presidents Day Weekend in February. The weekend also consists of the annual league meeting and the end-of-season awards banquet.
Past Champions
Totals