2021-22 CCC Women's Season

This is the 2021-22 Commonwealth Coast Conference Women's hockey season. This is the conference's first season of actual play after being previously known as the Colonial Hockey Conference and then being forced to cancel the 2020-21 season.
==Membership Changes==
On October 4, 2019 the Commonwealth Coast Conference announced it would be starting to sponsor women's hockey. It will assume operations of the Colonial Hockey Conference. As part of the announcement it was announced that the Suffolk Rams would be joining the conference for 2020-21 and that Western New England Golden Bears would be starting a women's team for 2020-21. This will make six of the seven members of the CHC also being full members of the CCC with the Becker Hawks being an associate member of the conference for both men's and women's hockey. With having seven members the conference will retain its automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.https://www.uscho.com/2019/10/05/commonwealth-coast-conference-starting-womens-hockey-in-2020-21-will-assume-operation-of-colonial-hockey-conference/
On February 13, 2020 Curry College announced that the college would be adding women's ice hockey as a varsity sport starting with the 2021-22 season when the conference has already been changed into the CCC giving the conference eight members.
On March 28, 2021, the Becker College Board of Trustees announced the decision to permanently close the college effective the end of the 2020-21 academic year.https://beckercollegenextsteps.com/ 
==League members==
Team 	Location 	Arena
Curry Colonels 	Milton, Massachusetts 	Canton Ice House
Endicott Gulls 	Beverly, Massachusetts 	Raymond J Bourque Arena
University of New England Nor'Easters	Biddeford, Maine 	Harold Alfond Forum
Nichols Bison 	Dudley, Massachusetts 	Levy Rink
Salve Regina Seahawks 	Newport, Rhode Island 	St. George's School Ice Rink
Suffolk Rams 	Boston, Massachusetts 	Porrazzo Memorial Rink
Western New England Golden Bears 	Springfield, Massachusetts	Olympia Ice Center
==Standings==
Commonwealth Coast Conference 	Commonwealth Coast Conference	Commonwealth Coast Conference	Commonwealth Coast Conference	Commonwealth Coast Conference	Commonwealth Coast Conference	Commonwealth Coast Conference	Commonwealth Coast Conference	Overall Record	Overall Record	Overall Record	Overall Record	Overall Record	Overall Record
Team 	GP 	W 	L 	T 	GF 	GA 	Pts 	GP 	W 	L 	T 	GF 	GA
Endicott Gulls 	18 	15 	2 	1 	71 	18 	31 	24 	19 	4 	1 	89 	27
Suffolk Rams 	18 	14 	4 	0 	72 	22 	28 	25 	19 	6 	0 	97 	50
Nichols Bison 	18 	10 	7 	1 	46 	33 	21 	26 	16 	9 	1 	84 	47
UNE Nor'Easters 	18 	9 	7 	2 	44 	39 	20 	26 	11 	13 	2 	54 	64
Western New England Golden Bears	18 	5 	11 	2 	23 	51 	12 	26 	7 	15 	4 	44 	71
Salve Regina Seahawks 	18 	4 	11 	3 	27 	55 	11 	24 	5 	16 	3 	35 	68
Curry Colonels 	18 	1 	16 	1 	23 	78 	3 	27 	4 	22 	1 	40 	115
==Conference Tournament==
===Format===
Single elimination tournament. The fourth place team hosts the fifth place team in the first round. The winner then place the first place team while the second and third place teams meet in the semifinals. The semifinal winners meet for the conference championship. The conference tournament champion earns the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Tournament.
The conference would announce on February 3rd that the conference tournament would now be open to all teams as long as they have completed at least 13 of the 18 conference games which all teams had by the end of the regular season.https://cccathletics.com/sports/general/2021-22/Releases/2022WinterChange
All Seven teams qualified for the tournament. The top seed earns a bye to the semifinals.
===Quarterfinals===
*Curry Colonels defeated Suffolk Rams 3-2
*Nichols Bison defeated Salve Regina Seahawks 3-2 (ot)
*UNE Nor'Easters defeated Western New England Golden Bears 2-0
===Semifinals===
*Endicott Gulls defeated Curry Colonels 8-0
*UNE Nor'Easters defeated Nichols Bison 4-3
===Final===
*Endicott Gulls defeated UNE Nor'Easters 2-1
The Endicott Gulls advance to the 2022 NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Tournament.
==References==
Category:2022 in hockey
Category:Commonwealth Coast Conference