By Matt Robinson/Valencia Flyers Junior A Hockey 6/9/2014 5:30PM EST
Seven new teams have been added to the WSHL for the 2014-2015 season, and with the Texas Brahmas moving to another league, the league is now at a nice round number of 30 teams.
This addition of six teams spread throughout the US has forced the league to make some changes to the divisional alignment along with the regular season schedule to alleviate travel costs for most everyone in the league.
The WSHL will feature two eight team (West and Midwest) and two seven team (Mountain, Northwest) divisions in the 2014-2015 campaign.
This is how the division will stack up:
Mountain(7) : Casper Coyotes, Cheyenne Stampede, Colorado Evolution, Colorado Jr. Eagles, Colorado Rough Riders, Ogden Mustangs, Salt Lake City Jr. Moose
Midwest(8): Dallas Ice Jets, Dallas Snipers, El Paso Rhinos, Texas Attack, Oklahoma City Jr. Blazers, Springfield Express, Tulsa Jr. Oilers, Wichita Jr. Thunder
Northwest(7): Idaho Jr. Steelheads, Butte Cobras, Lake Tahoe Blue, Missoula Maulers, Seattle Totems, Southern Oregon Spartans, Whitefish Wolverines
West(8): Valencia Flyers, Phoenix Knights, Arizona Redhawks, Fresno Monsters, Ontario Avalanche, Long Beach Bombers, San Diego Gulls, Las Vegas Storm
The Flyers will play in the newly formatted West division which will see the return of the Phoenix Knights and Arizona Redhawks along with the addition of Las Vegas to the division while the Lake Tahoe Blue will leave the division for the Northwest division.
The league will also no longer play out of division regular season match ups, except for the four game league showcase in Las Vegas in December. The rest of the 46 game schedule will be contested with each team playing everyone in their division a minimum of six times, with the Midwest and Northwest having to play an additional three games against two teams in their division to make the 42 divisional games.
The new alignment will also bring about a new playoff format, which will be covered in part three of the three part recap on the WSHL League meetings along with miscellaneous rule changes for the 2014-2015 season.
Matt Robinson is the Play-by-Play Voice of the Valencia Flyers. In addition, Matt also handles the Valencia Flyers Social Media accounts, produces stories and content for valenciaflyers.net and does Play-by-Play for College of the Canyons Ice Hockey.
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