The UAA Seawolves finalized and announced their 2010-2011 season schedule today. This years WCHA rotation includes 4 games versus the University of Denver and Minnesota State with 5 games versus Colorado College and 3 versus UND. The Seawolves play newcomers Nebraska-Omaha and Bemidji State twice each. The games against UNO are in Anchorage and the games against Bemidji are in whatever podunk little Minnesota berg that Bemidji is located.
All other "usual WCHA suspects" are played twice. In an ongoing attempt to line the pockets of other WCHA schools UAA and UAF have invited North Dakota and Colorado College to their respective tournaments. This means that UND and CC will gain the two coveted "Alaska Exemptions" which will allow them to host additional home games and potentially increase their program revenue by hundreds of thousands of dollars. This leads me to expect that in future seasons we'll continue to see at least two WCHA teams and two CCHA teams every other season.
