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St. Cloud State and St. Thomas play an Oct. 2, 2021 exhibition game at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, Minn. (photo: Jim Rosvold).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even before the puck dropped on the opening weekend of the 2021-22 season, college hockey felt the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

The season-opening series between Alaska and Minnesota scheduled for Oct. 2-3 in Minneapolis was postponed to mid-January because of COVID protocols that involved Tier 1 individuals associated with the Alaska program.<\/p>\n

Tier 1 individuals. COVID protocols. Phrases like these are now part of the lexicon of collegiate sports, and heading into a second college hockey season controlled in part by what turns the virus might take, every D-I conference has had more to consider than league standings and PairWise Rankings.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year we had some very specific things that we as a conference were saying had to be done, especially related to testing,\u201d said NCHC commissioner Josh Fenton. \u201cThis year, we\u2019re requiring people to follow NCAA and local health authority guides.\u201d<\/p>\n

In August, the NCAA published its \u201c2021 Fall Training and Competition\u201d guidelines, which were developed by dozens of doctors from member institutions across the three NCAA divisions plus several administrators from Division I conferences. The guidelines also rely on recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re following the NCAA guidance that\u2019s coming out from Dr. Hainline as the head of that unit at the minimum,\u201d said Steve Hagwell, ECAC commissioner. Brian Hainline oversees the NCAA Sports Science Institute and is the chief medical officer for the NCAA.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of our institutions are requiring that their student-athletes are vaccinated. There are exceptions on campuses for students in general \u2013 not big numbers \u2013 so student-athletes can fall under the medical and religious exemptions that are being granted, but it\u2019s not across the board. It\u2019s some institutions and it\u2019s very few, so I think it\u2019s very limited for the most part.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NCAA guidelines do not require vaccinations, even though many member institutions do. Tier 1 individuals \u2013 players and all who work directly with players \u2013 aren\u2019t required to be tested for COVID-19 as long as they\u2019re asymptomatic. Vaccinated athletes who come into contact with those who have tested positive for COVID-19 won\u2019t be required to quarantine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are, for the most part, deferring to our individual schools, local jurisdictions and states, because they\u2019re all so different,\u201d said CCHA commissioner Don Lucia. \u201cBasically, where we\u2019re at, is that we have very good vaccination rates from our players. We did mandate that officials have to be vaccinated for this upcoming season. We didn\u2019t want to run into a situation where an official gets to a site and can\u2019t officiate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not every conference is requiring on-ice officials to be vaccinated, but Atlantic Hockey, the CCHA, and Hockey East are requiring vaccines for refs and linesmen. In the NCHC, while vaccines aren\u2019t required, the league says that 90-95% of on-ice officials are vaccinated and those who choose not to get the vaccine must submit proof of a negative test to the league office in the weeks that they\u2019re scheduled to work. The Big Ten has a similar policy where officials submit proof of vaccine or negative tests to a server.<\/p>\n

In addition, at Michigan State and Minnesota, officials are required to mask up during stoppages of play and when approaching the benches.<\/p>\n

In every conference, rules for attending hockey games vary from arena to arena. When member teams play on institution grounds, the institution sets its own attendance mandates. Most indoor arenas require spectators to wear masks, although some municipalities that control arenas where college hockey teams play may extend mask rules to players and coaches when not in the field of play.<\/p>\n

Some institutions have even stricter attendance guidelines. Colorado College is requiring proof of vaccination or proof of negative test within the previous 72 hours for admission to the arena. Rensselaer announced early in August that only RPI students, faculty and staff who are compliant with the school\u2019s COVID-19 protocols will be allowed to attend any athletic events on its campus.<\/p>\n

Beyond the mandates of institutions and arenas, every conference navigates multiple municipalities that span counties and states. \u201cLast year, we had 11 counties that we had to deal with,\u201d said Atlantic Hockey commissioner Bob DiGregorio. \u201cWe were on the phone every Monday to see if there had been any changes. Last year was a long, long year. It\u2019s amazing what one year has done.\u201d<\/p>\n

While there is still a lot to navigate, said Fenton, last year was far more difficult, including a 40-page document for health and safety protocols. \u201cThis year\u2019s version is a 10 to 15 page document,\u201d said Fenton, based on the NCAA guidelines.<\/p>\n

Every conference is taking everything into account and keeping in mind that things may change without warning \u2013 but not without preparation. Last year\u2019s 40-page NCHC document for health and safety protocols paved the way for this year\u2019s document that\u2019s less than half that length.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re following any local health authority guidelines, restrictions, requirements,\u201d said Fenton. “Whether it be a state restriction, a city restriction, a county restriction or maybe more specifically and probably more appropriately institutional requirements, and then obviously more specifically within the competition venue, whatever those requirements are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should COVID derail conference play, each league has its own set of rules for how the games will be counted \u2013 or not.<\/p>\n

The Big Ten, for example, has a strict across-the-board policy for all sports regarding COVID cancellations. They\u2019re all forfeitures. The B1G website says, in part, that \u201cif one of its member institutions is unable to play a conference due to COVID-19,\u201d that\u2019s a forfeit \u201cand will not be rescheduled.\u201d The game is a loss for \u201cthe team impacted by COVID-19 and a win for its opponent in the conference standings.<\/p>\n

The ECAC will deal with cancellations on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf an institution has an issue, those administrators will get together and see if they can reschedule the game,\u201d said Hagwell. \u201cIf it doesn\u2019t work, we may find ourselves possibly in a scenario with an uneven number of games and we go to win percentage based on the available points.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because of the conference\u2019s big footprint, Hagwell said that the ECAC did entertain the idea of forfeits.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think a team or players should be penalized because they had an issue on a given day,” he said. “I\u2019m not a fan of forfeits.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will have no contest as opposed to a forfeiture,\u201d added Lucia. \u201cWe\u2019ve discussed both, but we will go with the no contest if that were to happen and then we\u2019d have to switch our standings to a percentage rates.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the CCHA is doing is identical to the ECAC\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will have no contest as opposed to a forfeiture,\u201d said Lucia. \u201cWe\u2019ve discussed both, but we will go with the no contest if that were to happen and then we\u2019d have to switch our standings to a percentage rates.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither Atlantic Hockey nor the NCHC has made a firm decision about potential cancellations, with both leagues leaning toward switching to percentages to determine final conference standings, if absolutely necessary. DiGregorio is a little concerned about the logistics of rescheduling games between opponents separated by great distances.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a little bit of a hang-up with that,” DiGregorio said. “Teams can\u2019t keep traveling during the week. They\u2019ll be missing too much school. We\u2019re limited there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NCHC, in particular, is saying that a cancelled game would be considered \u201cno contest\u201d if it couldn\u2019t be rescheduled.<\/p>\n

Hockey East is a different animal altogether.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew England is doing really well\u201d with COVID, said HEA commissioner Steve Metcalf. \u201cOur institutions are doing really well, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because of that, the league hasn\u2019t instituted anything COVID-specific regarding potential cancellations and will follow existing rules. According to the Hockey East by-laws, if a game is cancelled, the team responsible for the cancellation needs to reschedule no later than 72 hours before the cancelled game. If the team that cancels doesn\u2019t reschedule, that team forfeits. Metcalf doesn\u2019t foresee rescheduling problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have very, very high vaccination rates,\u201d said Metcalf. \u201cAll of our men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams, all of our officials are vaccinated. When you kind of put all those together, it gives you really strong reason for optimism that you\u2019ll be playing uninterrupted mostly.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Hampshire is the only Hockey East school that doesn\u2019t require vaccinations for students.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll but one of our institutions has mandated vaccinations for their student populations and in some cases their staff,\u201d said Metcalf. \u201cIn some cases, you can\u2019t get on the campus unless you\u2019re vaccinated. When all those things are happening in concert when you\u2019re trying to play college hockey, it\u2019s a really good situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vaccination rates vary widely from state to state, region to region, which is the chief reason why policies vary from conference to conference. In Minnesota, the percentage of the population that is fully vaccinated is 59.2%. In Colorado, it\u2019s 60.7%. In North Dakota, it\u2019s 45.4%. Indiana, Ohio and Michigan all have rates that hover around 50%.<\/p>\n

\u201cVaccination rates are up, but so is COVID,\u201d said Lucia. \u201cIt\u2019s an endemic. It\u2019s something we\u2019re going to have to live with. It\u2019s not going away anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just happy to see people back in the buildings. Some people are more comfortable than others. I think we\u2019re going to have to be respectful of everybody as we go through this. We\u2019ve done everything we can do from a conference standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe game-changer and why we\u2019re having a different conversation from the one we had last year is the vaccine,\u201d noted Fenton. \u201cIf the vaccine wasn\u2019t in place and the case counts were what they are now, we\u2019d be talking about essentially what we did last year. That\u2019s the saving grace. I\u2019m not here to tell anybody that they should or shouldn\u2019t [get vaccinated]. That\u2019s not my place. But I can tell you the path to competing in collegiate sports that is a little bit [of an] easier path is being vaccinated. It just is.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vaccination rate for every state in New England is above 60%, which Metcalf thinks bodes well for Hockey East and for the Frozen Four that conference hosts in Boston next April.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a difference a year makes, for so many different reasons,\u201d said Metcalf. \u201cTo be playing hockey as scheduled on the dates and times that we planned to play those games is so refreshing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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