The Hockey East Association, also known by the short name of Hockey East, is a College Ice Hockey conference which operates in New England. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference.
Hockey East came into existence in 1984 for men's hockey when most of its current members split apart from what is today known as ECAC Hockey. It largely sought to emulate the Big East Conference, which had grown quickly since its creation a few years earlier. The women's league began play in 2002.
On October 5, 2011, the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish (a Big East member and future ACC member outside football) announced they would be joining Hockey East as the conference's first non-New England school in 2013 when the CCHA folds. The University of Connecticut (UConn) and Hockey East jointly announced on June 21, 2012 that UConn's men's team, currently in Atlantic Hockey, would join the school's women's team in Hockey East in 2014.
Read more about Hockey East: Champions, Members, List of Men's Hockey East Championship Games, List of Women's Hockey East Championship Games, Conference Arenas, Hockey East Men's Awards
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