d <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_New_Hampshire" title="University of New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a> to decide to leave the ECAC to form what would become <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_East" title="Hockey East">Hockey East</a>, which began play in the 1984–85 season.<sup id="cite_ref-ecachockey.com_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ecachockey.com-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> By that fall, <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maine" title="Univers