After the ACHA coaches meetings the "overwhelming majority coaches wanted to keep the NCAA Regionals as is". The NCAA committee will meet in June to talk about the potential change to the Regionals.
http://www.uscho.com/2015/05/07/overwhelming-majority-of-coaches-dont-want-change-for-ncaa-regional-system/
Some other points in the article.
- Don't expect any changes to the NCAA selection process.
- Adding practices at the beginning of the year.
- Expanding the coaching staffs from three full-time paid coaches to four.
- Not a rule change year, but tweaking goaltender interference was brought up. Coaches feel that goalies are over protected and goals that should count are being waved off.
When it comes to the NCAA Regionals, if an arena can't have a combined attendance of the first two game of 10,000 or at least close to 10,000 and a two day total around 15,000. Then those arenas shouldn't be allowed to host a NCAA Regional again. It should be easy for the committee to be able to keep a list of Regionals that worked and ones that failed. looking at this year Fargo and Providence were successful and Notre Dame and Manchester didn't work.
Another thing that should be implemented is who can be a "host school" for the NCAA tournament. For a school to host an NCAA Regional they would have to had been in the NCAA tournament in the last 5 to 10 years. So schools like Brown this year shouldn't be allowed to host a NCAA Regional.