Inside an article on College Hockey News.com, this was said about the CHA:
Whither CHA
The CHA is expected to fold because it's no longer viable as a four-team league, as Goeb alludes to. It will become a four-team league at the end of the season when Wayne State's program disbands.
Attempts to find other teams to come into the league have failed.
However, CHA commissioner Bob Peters re-opened speculation about other programs coming in. In a radio interview in Bemidji this week, Peters said that the CHA is in "active negotiations" with Atlantic Hockey about bringing in teams, perhaps Mercyhurst and Canisius, to bring the league back to six teams.
This has been talked about before, and it makes sense on some level. Mercyhurst's girls team plays in the CHA. And the two schools are close to current CHA school Niagara.
But Mercyhurst athletic director Craig Barnett remains steadfast in saying his school is staying put.
"I still stand by — we'd like to be part of the solution, but it will need more than just Mercyhurst and Canisius," Barnett said. "With all these rumblings and rumors, I'd like it to be clear, that we are a proud member of Atlantic Hockey and we don't want to leave the AHA. We don't have any intention of leaving.
Goeb did allude, however, to something else possibly being in the works, though he didn't want to be specific.
"Anything is possible. There's a lot of options being discussed. And I do think college hockey will take care of college hockey," Goeb said. "There's not a lot of programs, and they all know each other quite well, the coaches do certainly, and it's a fraternity and they do want to take care of each other."
Said Barnett, "It sounds like the CHA as a whole or some of their members are in the process of making a proposal for absorption into Atlantic Hockey. I have no idea how Atlantic Hockey would react to that. I don't know if it's a total CHA proposal, or just some members. It's survival time for some of those programs."
Said McLeod, "I thought it was pretty much toast, but now ... it's rumbling beyond some coaches rhetoric. The ADs and even presidents are involved."
You can find the article here: CHN, Special Report