Great Lakes Collegiate Hockey League

the first regular season rankings for men's division one will come out on october 7th and the first computer ranking will be two months from now on november 4th that list will determine the 24 teams that qualify for the 2027 ACHA National Tournament.

There's going to be nine auto bids coming out of that from the following conferences, the ACCHL, the CHMA, ECHA, GL6, GLCHL, MCH, NECHL, the WCHL, and the WHAC.

So keep an eye out for that, of course, as the season gets kicked off and games start getting rolling.

Moving on to our headlines for this week, disappointing news from the ACHA.