Sunday, February 13, 2022

Expansion Team Conferences Unveiled!

 Expansion continues to heat up in the CCHL these days with the teams getting names and Head Coaches over the past few weeks. 

With that determined, it is now time to unveil the conferences that our newest franchises will be in, come the 2022-23 CCHL season. 

Some obvious storylines that exist are the fact that the Quesnel brothers could find themselves in the same Conference.  While that’s a funny possibility, it would be even funnier if both ended up in the same division, but that possibility is such that we’re putting the cart in front of the horse at this point, seeing as we haven’t determined their CCHL Conference yet. 

The reality is, for the first few years, the Conference assignment will be somewhat meaningless as the teams attempt to build themselves into a contender.  Expectations could be low for the expansion teams; however, they could also represent a tough night at the office for many CCHL teams if the expansion crew are active in free agency and study the rules to make the most out of the expansion draft. 

With that said, it was time to determine the respective conferences that the Crystal Lake Campers and Val-d’Or Golden Nuggets would be assigned to in their inaugural seasons. 

With just two teams involved, we used the old-fashioned, scientific method of a coin toss to determine the results.  Crystal Lake was assigned “heads” while the Golden Nuggets were given the esteemed “tails” side of the coin.  The team that came up first would be assigned to the Corfield Conference, aptly named after the original game simmer Bill Corfield. 

A coin was flipped high in the air by our rather attractive commissioner, and it landed squarely on tails, meaning the Val-d’Or Golden Nuggets would play in the Corfield Conference and forever ending dreams of a family feud between the Quesnel crew. 

Crystal Lake would obviously end up in the Canosa Conference to begin play next year. 

Stay tuned next week as we continue to discuss our alignment into four divisions as we unveil our division names!  

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