The college hockey season is over in Alaska, before it even began.
The administration at the University of Alaska Fairbanks cancelled the men's hockey campaign on Friday due to COVID-19 concerns, along with the UAF men's and women's basketball seasons. The University of Alaska Anchorage, which has been soliciting funds to keep several of its athletics programs alive, including hockey, had opted out of playing hockey earlier this fall. UAF was supposed to start play next month.
A proposal to have UAF play its 2020-21 hockey season in Marquette, Mich. for at least part of this season did not come to fruition. Nanooks head coach Eric Largen, who seemingly did not agree with the decision to cancel the season, has pointed supporters of the hockey program towards an online petition to have the team play this year.
The Nanooks and UAA Seawolves are both now sitting out the last season of the WCHA, after which they will likely revert to NCAA Division I independents along with fellow conference member Alabama-Huntsville. The other seven WCHA schools are leaving the conference after this season to re-form the CCHA.
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