So long, CHA

College Hockey America is all but dead. The conference, which has just four teams and got a reprieve from the NCAA to keep its automatic bid for one more year, is now seeing its final four teams planning for the future. 

On Wednesday, it was reported that two members, Robert Morris and Niagara, will join Atlantic Hockey in 2010. That leaves Bemidji State and Alabama-Huntsville looking for homes.

Bemidji announced its plans to apply for membership into the WCHA earlier this month when the conference voted to lift its moratorium on expansion. Huntsville said this week that it is applying to the Central Collegiate Hockey Association but also sent a letter of intent to the WCHA saying it will apply to that conference, too.

The WCHA currently has 10 teams, and the CCHA has 12. It will be interesting to see how these conferences might handle an odd number of teams, if there will be some other changes or if the conferences will even allow those schools in at all.