Seven months after playing its first league game, the CCHA announced an expansion from eight teams to nine, welcoming Augustana University of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, into the circuit as its latest member.

There is no rest for the weary.

The Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) announced its 104-game conference schedule on Thursday. All eight CCHA teams will play a 26-game conference slate with the regular season champion being awarded the prestigious MacNaughton Cup, recognized as the premiere conference trophy in collegiate hockey.

The ECHL announced on Thursday that the 2022-23 season will begin with eight games on Friday, Oct. 21, continues with 13 games on Saturday, Oct. 22 with Opening Weekend concluding with six games on Sunday, Oct. 23.

One day after the South Division Final is set to get underway, the North will follow suit. Reading and Newfoundland, the division’s top two seeds, will face each other in what should be a premium matchup between two of the league’s top three teams by points percentage in the regular season.

Between both the South Division Final and Central Division Final getting underway on Friday night, FloHockey viewers will have no shortage of high-quality playoff hockey to watch.

The second round of the Kelly Cup Playoffs is set to get underway on Friday night—exclusively broadcast on FloHockey—with Game 1 of the South Division Finals. The all-Florida matchup is between a motivated Everblades, a franchise that’s perpetually a preseason title favorite, against the Icemen, the only team to sweep their opening-round series.

Game.  Seven.