{"id":23420,"date":"1996-08-19T15:49:21","date_gmt":"1996-08-19T20:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1996\/08\/19\/ccha-accepts-northern-michigan\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:05","slug":"ccha-accepts-northern-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1996\/08\/19\/ccha-accepts-northern-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"CCHA Accepts Northern Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CCHA unanimously accepted Northern Michigan University&#8217;s application to return to the conference Monday. The Wildcats entered the CCHA in 1976-77, before leaving for the WCHA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very pleased to be accepted back in the CCHA for the fall of 1997,&#8221; said NMU athletic director and head hockey coach Rick Comley. &#8220;We [our administration and fans] are excited about renewing past rivalries with the members of the CCHA. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate very much what the WCHA has done for us over the last 13 years and I wish them all the best in the future.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Northern Michigan will begin CCHA play in 1997-98, and likely will fill the void left in the CCHA schedule when Illinois-Chicago dropped its hockey program this spring. The exact format will be decided by the CCHA council next month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CCHA unanimously accepted Northern Michigan University&#8217;s application to return to the conference Monday. 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