NCAA Tournament Future Sites : College Hockey News
ECAC is the host. ECAC (conference) has hosted 6 regionals with 3 a combined host with RPI. 2006, 2008, and 2010. ECAC hosting 2007, 2016, 2020 (Covid), 2021, and 2026. The CCHA has also hosted as a conference in 2009 and 2001. 2009 was co-hosted with Western Michigan.
Next year in Bridgeport I expect it to be Sacred Heart and Yale since it has been co-hosted every year, they've hosted there. Even though it says just Sacred Heart
They should be able to get 5,000 per game. College Hockey Inc, NCAA, and the NHL should be advertising the regionals since Christmas. There is no excuse in the East when most of the schools are within 3 to 4 hours max from regionals.