Can't fall asleep? You can go through every game of the WCHA schedule for next season, 140 games in all.
Seriously, though, with three new or vastly different leagues -- the WCHA, the National Collegiate Hockey Conference and the Big Ten -- all debuting next season, their publicity machines are already ramping up.
The WCHA, for instance, already has its schedule out. Unbelievable. Critics of the WCHA say it is classy on the ice, but a ma and pa operation at the top.
Maybe that is changing a little, at least.
Also like WCHA's little dig on Big Ten in its news release: "All league series being played on the traditional hockey nights of Fridays and Saturdays."
The Big Ten will be playing some games on different nights -- Thursdays, Sundays and Mondays probably -- because the Big Ten Network needs programming on those nights.
The NCHC, meanwhile, has a web site up and running and a new logo it trumpeted this week.
"We are truly looking forward to a tremendous season in 2013-14 and all the excitement and interest that the new-look WCHA will generate," Commissioner Bruce M. McLeod said in a news release this week. "We are extremely pleased with the 28 games per team schedule that will give our fans what they most want, and that's a majority of league games.
