On the eve of college hockey’s national championship, the season’s crowning moment, an interesting question was posed to Minnesota-Duluth’s Justin Fontaine, a native of Bonnyville, Alberta, regarding a Frozen Four in Canada.<\/p>\n
At first thought, the notion sounds weird — why would the NCAA move the Frozen Four to Canada? — but if you consider the possible reasoning, raising the exposure of college hockey in Canada, helping Canadian players see first-hand what the college route is like, helping schools win the recruiting battles against the CHL, it almost makes sense.<\/p>\n
And Fontaine thinks it might be feasible.<\/p>\n
“It’s an American thing [but] it’s always great to have hockey up in Canada,” he said. “I figure it would raise the level [of awareness] up there and definitely sell out; there’s a lot of hockey lovers up in that area. But it’s been in the States for this long, so I don’t know what it would take to get up there.”<\/p>\n
Obviously not something to think about right now, but definitely an interesting piece to chew on in the upcoming offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the eve of college hockey’s national championship, the season’s crowning moment, an interesting question was posed to Minnesota-Duluth’s Justin Fontaine, a native of Bonnyville, Alberta, regarding a Frozen Four in Canada. At first thought, the notion sounds weird — why would the NCAA move the Frozen Four to Canada? — but if you consider […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1426],"tags":[677],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n