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The relocation of the former Atlanta Thrashers franchise to the current Winnipeg Jets in 2011 prompted the league to discuss realignment. On December 5, 2011, the NHL Board of Governors approved a conference realignment plan that would eliminate the current six-division setup and move into a four-conference structure from the 2012–13 season. [1]
The March 2011 announcement that the Big Ten Conference would start sponsoring men's ice hockey in the 2013–14 season, which came shortly after Penn State had announced that it would upgrade its team from club to full varsity status effective in 2012–13, led to a major wave of conference realignment in that sport.
Description: Locations of National Hockey League (NHL) teams, marked by conference, of the proposed 2013–2014 realignment. US states/Canadian provinces with teams marked. (New York State has teams in two different divisions, so it has been marked with strip
On June 22, 2016, the Board of Governors voted 30–0 to add an expansion franchise in Las Vegas for the 2017–18 season, charging an expansion fee of $500 million ($655.1 million today). [1] The Vegas Golden Knights joined the Pacific Division of the Western Conference.
Field hockey MAC: Dropped field hockey [116] North Dakota Fighting Hawks: Men's and women's swimming & diving WAC: Dropped swimming & diving [117] North Dakota Fighting Hawks: Women's ice hockey WCHA: Dropped women's ice hockey [117] Northern Iowa Panthers: Wrestling MAC: Big 12 [110] Notre Dame Fighting Irish: Men's ice hockey Hockey East: Big ...
Men's ice hockey was also significantly affected. The Big Ten Conference announced that it would begin sponsoring that sport in the 2013–14 season, which resulted in a chain of conference moves that led to the formation of the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference and the demise of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association .
The 2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment was a set of extensive changes in conference membership at all three levels of NCAA competition—Division I, Division II, and Division III—beginning in the 2010–11 academic year. Most of these changes involved conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of Division I.
2010: Expansion of the Big Ten, Pac-12, and SEC, plus further expansion of the ACC, leading to a concurrent reduction in the number of Big 12 members and the split of the Big East Conference A separate but related phase that involved only men's ice hockey was triggered by Penn State adding the sport, enabling the Big Ten to start a men's ice ...