More on expansion.

This was in today's Red Star and Sickle (Star and Tribune.) I have always said that if Minnesota coach Don Luica wants something to happen in the WCHA, there is a good chance the league office will lean/go his way. I think letting BSU join the WCHA is the right decision and it will be interesting to see how this shakes out now that tDon is on board.

Will the WCHA expand?
The University of Minnesota has made a request to the WCHA to lift the present moratorium on expansion. The 10-team conference's executive committee will decide today whether to make that request an action item at its January meeting at the NCAA convention.

Bemidji State is building a new arena and appears eager to apply to the WCHA if the ban on expansion is lifted. The Beavers are now part of College Hockey America, a crumbling league down to four teams. The Bemdiji State women's hockey team is a WCHA member.

Another hot conference topic is the WCHA Minnesota Hockey Showcase. All four WCHA teams located in Minnesota played in the first showcase on Nov. 1. It drew more than 10,000 at Xcel Energy Center.

Athletic directors from those four will participate in a teleconference call Wednesday to decide its fate.

"It will kind of be a postmortem, where we want to go from here," said Bruce McLeod, the WCHA commissioner.

Schedule changes will have to be made to hold it again next season.

Bemidji State is building a new arena and appears eager to apply to the WCHA if the ban on expansion is lifted. The Beavers are now part of College Hockey America, a crumbling league down to four teams. The Bemdiji State women's hockey team is a WCHA member.